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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

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Attendees can also check out Ada, a prototype in-game NPC powered by the MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine and Amazon Bedrock. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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The magical realism of Indonesia in the 90’s captured in A Space for the Unbound

PreMortem.Games

In the years that followed the team evolved into a game development studio, initially making games for Flash, HTLML5 and mobile, but now expanded to console development as well. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

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TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? 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. Subscribe here!

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Solo dev ansdor loves his total creative control: “I don’t like too much planning”

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Besides these well documented ones, the biggest problem I experienced first hand was balancing the game’s difficulty. When I have an idea I consider viable, ideally I go straight to prototyping and develop the game from there. What’s your creative process? “I I like to get my hands dirty as early as possible.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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The Game Industry Has Spoken: Remote vs. Hybrid vs. On-Site

Deconstructor of Fun

When it comes to what would increase already very high job satisfaction, pay is the primary driver (37%) with interesting projects (17.0%) and better work/life balance (14%%) trailing as the second and third factors. Although I am surprised of pay is so important for increased happiness. But this is why we do surveys.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

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. There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content.

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