AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games. Speakers included representatives from AAA studios Epic Games and Warner Bros Games Avalanche Software, and innovative startups like Sprocket Games and UneeQ.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unreal Fest, the annual developer conference organized by Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (UE), returns to New Orleans October 3—5 for three days of speaking sessions, hands-on workshops, and specialized industry tracks. Stop by our booth in the expo hall for live demonstrations of Unreal Engine use cases powered by AWS.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

Following the shuttering of “Paragon,” Epic Games released all “Paragon’s” assets for free use in Unreal Engine. The change was implemented ahead of its latest release, which made the game free-to-play across platforms. AWS is a games industry gold standard, so going with GameLift was an easy decision.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Cross-platform Video Game Development Trends. Cross-platform video game development (in other words multi-platform) is an inevitable advantage that any game development company should leverage nowadays. This makes cross-platform game development even more in demand. AAA video game development trends.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

Currently not yet, we are still a mobile first game engine, we are not trying to attract AAA studios from using in-house, Unreal, Unity engines. At last, thank you so much for the interest and for liking it.

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

Attendees will also get an exclusive look at how NVIDIA Omniverse, the open platform for virtual collaboration and simulation, is helping developers accelerate production workflows. Learn how to integrate DLSS into a new game engine. Ray Tracing Gems II brings the community of rendering experts back together to share their knowledge.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Our opinion on why is in line with Ilkka’s words above The lack of successful new game launches by Supercell stems mainly from the fact that all their games after Brawl Stars only offered incremental innovation over products that already existed in mobile , instead of a more disruptive proposal on the platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. With Xsolla you can easily launch your own cross-platform player account system Let your players stay connected and engaged no matter which platform they play on. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

image courtesy of Hathora Backend services can be divided into four components: Account Management : Creation and synchronization of accounts across all platforms and devices. CTO of a AAA studio External backend services, offered by dedicated providers, boast several advantages over in-house solutions. That’s where BaaS wins.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

iXie is an Indian company that was founded in 2011 and is a division of Indium, a global digital engineering company. Also, apart from its art outsourcing services, it offers cross-platform porting, AI, and web development. Art Services, Engineering, Audio Services, Functionality QA, Localization, Localization QA, and Player Support.

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

Once I had a playable build of ‘Crossfar,’ I started researching a good place to host the game and a platform that would support growth. In building “Crossfar” on AWS in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, Omidi used both Blueprint visual scripting and custom C++ scripting. Additionally, developing a “Crossfar” sequel is under consideration.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. So it makes total sense to explore going cross-platform and developing PC/console-exclusive games.

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Starloop Studios

JULY 12, 2023

A common misconception about game porting is that it’s as simple as compiling a new version for a new platform and simply releasing it. [.] Though game porting is a popular practice in the gaming industry, carried out by developers both big and small, they’re far from guaranteed to be successful upon launch and after.

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Starloop Studios

JULY 6, 2023

Though platform-exclusive games still exist and occupy a major part of console manufacturers’ success, players have never [.] Game porting is a common practice in the gaming industry, as it has been for decades, but in more recently, despite the complexity of game porting, game ports are released faster and with more efficiency than ever.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2023

Santosh has worked on all gaming platforms, but his core competencies are PC, consoles, mobile and web games. The Indian Society as it was then and even now mostly prefers kids to pursue engineering or medicine, and there is hardly any recognition for gamers. It was hard work too, but Santosh was more than up to the challenge.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These are the main factors to consider when choosing an outsourcing studio: Experience working with AA or AAA game titles. The team is known for its expertise in promo art, rigging, animation, and model integration into Unity/Unreal Engine. We’ve also prepared a checklist of key questions to help you make the right decision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). Embedding We see embedding defensibility more in game infrastructure and technology platform companies. Firebase), etc. Maybe EA (founded in 1982)?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s not that Magic Eden could not have brought more gamers onto their platform or Fenix Games could not have built a nice marketplace. So, instead of fighting against the odds on their own, they are coming together to provide a very well rounded service.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

TWiG #225 - GDC Recap / Unreal Engine for Fortnite / Counterstrike 2 ? TWiG #225 - GDC Recap / Unreal Engine for Fortnite / Counterstrike 2 Eric, Ethan, Laura and Phil are back from GDC and are eager to share all that they learned during the week long celebration of all things game development. Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s because the original version was created on Unity’s old engine. And building it on Unity’s new engine means they will be able to continue releasing updates and fixing bugs – something they were blocked from doing for a while. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? I imagine Arkane debated this a lot, and over the years, had to bow to AAA approachability and clarity. sorry if your game happens to crash, or you get a dreaded UI freeze.

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