AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Second Dinner – an independent game studio founded in 2018, the studio wanted to quickly launch and scale MARVEL SNAP, the mobile game of the year in 2022, while focusing their small engineering team on improving the game experience. Learn how Second Dinner managed the smoothest technical launch they ever experienced with AWS.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Tuesday, November 28 5:00 PM–6:00 PM: SVS308: Breakout Session: Building low-latency, event-driven applications Second Dinner, the creator of Marvel Snap, covers the serverless backend design and implementation of AWS Lambda functions for handling HTTP requests, data processing, and integration with AWS services.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. But many companies would actually spend that amount if Second Dinner had published the game themselves.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Executive Summary What: MARVEL SNAP is a mobile CCG by Second Dinner, a new studio founded by veterans from Hearthstone. The company was originally funded by NetEase, but Snap is published by Nuverse (a subsidiary of ByteDance, of TikTok fame). Written by Javier Barnés. Many of its members are veterans of Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With first-hand experience on both mobile, PC, and Console, and vast experience at Supercell and its internal culture - as well as the trust of the top brass in the company -, he seems a great choice to lead a studio with the mission of expanding the company beyond mobile. An additional risk is the remote work factor.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Pitch your ridiculous companies. The original call was over 30,000 words in length but was so information-rich that I’ve split it into three posts of which this is the second. ( The second big way [to get into retail] is you go to the GAMA Trade Show , the Game Manufacturers Association Trade Show. This is a fun story.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Showcasing the impressive work of teams like Second Dinner, Respawn, and HoYoverse (formally miHoYo and operated by Cognosphere Pte., The Talk of the Year (news or trend) Correction of the Year (what we got wrong BIGLY) Most Damage Received (Company, platform, genre that took a hit) You Crushed It!

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