Press kit

Barkopolis

Everything here may be used freely in coverage of the game. For anything else — interviews, preview builds of new features, a quote about dogs — write to support@mabryventures.com.

Fact sheet

Title	Barkopolis
Developer	Mabry Product Studios (a Mabry Ventures studio)
Genre	Turn-based 4X strategy
Platform	Web browser (desktop & tablet); installable PWA, works offline
Price	Free — no ads, no purchases, no accounts
Players	Single player vs. 1–5 AI packs
Modes	Kid Mode and Adult Mode (same rules, two voices)
Play link	barkopolis.net/play
Engine	Custom deterministic TypeScript engine; no generative AI at runtime

Boilerplate

Barkopolis is a kid-friendly 4X strategy game in which six dog empires compete for a single backyard. Players explore a fog-covered hex map, found cities, research a five-era tree of dog technologies, trade Treats and resources, sway rivals at the Grand Dog Council, and pursue five distinct victories — cultural, scientific, domination, diplomatic, and the turn-300 Best in Show. Its one unbreakable rule: nobody dies. Defeated pups Tail-Tuck and run home, spies get marched home with their ears down, and cities won by culture simply "vote with their paws." Barkopolis is free, browser-based, offline-capable, and contains no ads, purchases, accounts, or trackers.

Key art & screenshots

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Key art (1200×630)

Title screen with live day-night sky. — Title screen — the sky matches your local time of day

Pack selection with painted leader portraits. — Pack selection — Queen Georgia & Empress Virginia

The hex map with a settler on turn one. — Turn one — a settler, a scout, and a yard of fog

Pack standings with victory progress bars. — The Five Roads — live victory progress

Icon (SVG)

Five facts writers seem to like

The title screen's sky is live: the sun arcs with your real local time, and at night a cratered moon rides the same road.
The engine is fully deterministic — same seed, same moves, same game — which is also how save files stay tiny.
Every rival leader is scripted, not generated: the same hand-written personality every game, from Don Paco's culture obsession to General Rex's border grudges.
The in-game Barkopedia has 140+ hand-written entries, and it's published on the open web.
The royal Labradors, Queen Georgia and Empress Virginia, are modeled on the developer's family dogs. Georgia loves to play ball. This is canon.