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When it comes to copy writing (for press and pitches) forget the fluff and start to BLUF

PreMortem.Games

Rami Ismail Click away in seconds Working in games is a communication minefield: multidisciplinary communications, both internal and external, with the purpose of alignment or selling ideas. Or if you’re writing a store page or a video script, people click away in seconds.

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Friday Questions #3

Grumpy Gamer

If I do another point-and-click, I want to push what a point-and-click can be, but still staying true to the form. LostTrainDude: Where do you think improvement and evolution lie in the future of adventure games, considering their heavily-scripted nature? Is it in technology or in better design?

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Building a multiplayer game with Amazon GameSparks and Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

Next, we’ll need to manually upload the game server.zip file to S3, and set up a local configuration file to point to the location of this file: Create an S3 bucket in the us-east-1 region with a name that does not contain any periods (‘.’); the bucket cannot be encrypted and should not be made public. One (1) active server.

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