AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Based on what we heard, a few themes that are top-of-mind include: cloud-based game development (aka Game Studio in the Cloud), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help support player community health, content moderation, and AI-driven game development.

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Game Daily

MAY 12, 2023

I spoke to Moreira about his work, and the current state of AI in game development, and I learned a lot about a complicated issue. I’m asking questions like, can a machine-developed creation carry IP rights, and if so, who can claim them? As you can see, it’s a hot topic. Little wonder that so many are confused.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

What you cannot do is learn anything about these characters, because they are not really characters in the literary sense at all. I wanted to talk to her - I wanted to learn not only about her, but about Ryo through her. Just as Ryo is asked to learn patience, so is the player. This never happened with Shenhua.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Dev discussions around current topics, everyone welcome to chime in and see how FOSS gets made: Roadmap for future Godot versions: 3.2 / 4.0. Potentially other topics based on needs/interests. My story of learning shaders the hard way - by doing an awesome grass shader! Workshop: Normals can be fun | Mariusz Chwalba ( koder ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this blog we describe how the AWS machine learning services can be used, in conjunction with graph databases and visualisation tools, to automate the process of scoring users and determining the impact of toxicity on your community. A method of processing “metadata” from the central databases is also needed.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  I have to admit it was frustrating to work with a machine that cannot handle much heavy calculations at once (my Macbook from 2011) from time to time, but on the other hand this forced me to get into optimizing the game very soon, what might become a good base for expanding the complexity in near future. FPS on my machine.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

This will all be a bit disjointed with lots of small individual topics. Shadowheart should be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. But I've learned to, just before release, take a quick pass through all the bosses and make each one a little easier. But it's worth it, because this is a very interesting game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

I didn't become rich (yet :D) making games, but I learned a lot in the process. I'm sure others have written about the same topic, but this article is written from my own experience, in hopes of it being useful. Once you have a positive conversion rate, your game literally becomes a money printing machine. Self publishing.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work.

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Smart Fox Server

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the next sections we’re going to install and setup HAProxy on a dedicated Linux machine to act as a Load Balancer for multiple SFS2X instances, supporting both TCP and Websocket clients. To get started we launched a new Ubuntu machine in AWS EC2 and installed HAProxy with this command: sudo apt install haproxy. Backup servers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 10, 2021

While there is no specific formula to create a hit puzzle game, there is a growing baseline of what’s required to make a revenue generating puzzle machine. Having said this, puzzle is a different beast entirely and through the release of Hay Day Pop it seems they learned this lesson the hard way.

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Game Design Advice

APRIL 22, 2016

But we shouldn’t let ourselves fall for a tragic “man vs. machine” narrative. It’s not the story of a machine beating a person, it’s the story of a bunch of people pooling their resources and bringing all of their best problem-solving techniques to bear on one of the world’s most beautiful problems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. Well-rounded World Building with Global Appeals Cookie Run: Kingdom expanded the world behind the Cookie Run IP to a much larger universe, adding lore from ancient mythology, political machinations, & heroic adventures. Only having a subtle display before the battle).

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 24, 2022

You learn a lot in the ending. (I Honestly, when the series is done, I'll probably wish I'd been more bloody-minded and less cowardly about how I touched the topic. They don't run properly on newer machines. And That's Another One In the Bag I've been doing this a long time, and I've learned a lot. What Is Coming?

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Game Dev Unchained

JUNE 27, 2023

The real potential lies in how these technologies can redefine how we learn, work, and interact with each other and our environments. Metaverse Confusion The concept of the metaverse has become a prevalent topic of discussion within tech circles, primarily after Facebook rebranded to Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Here is a video of the brief introduction to this topic that I gave at Banff. What follows is an overview of where our thinking is on this topic. We aren’t primarily interested in how humans learn or what humans find interesting. Not sure why they added “and fun” to the title, we aren’t really interested in that!).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). Gone are the days when Kabam’s and Machine Zone’s games defined the 4X market. 4 High entry barrier.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Cogmind fits more on this end of the spectrum, with a decent chunk of its dynamicity coming from external non-item factors including special encounters and events, enemies that work together at a higher level, interactive machines, highly destructible terrain, traps that cover a wider area, hidden corridors used by hostiles, etc.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Relay Couplers are not reflected in this list, since there are almost no free-standing couplers in Beta 11--they’re acquired separately from Relay machines, and I already have a good idea of their distribution since it’s more directly controlled anyway. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. RIF Installers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So going into it, knowing that your first product will probably fail and knowing that you will learn a lot and that you need to get it out as quickly as possible and that you then need to be really hard nosed about killing it as quickly as possible. Gigi Levy Weiss That is so true. We wanted to be sure. But we've gone on a long time.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

Instead, computer technology and machine learning algorithms apply different artistic techniques to alter or enhance existing human-created artwork or to create new artwork altogether. Educators Educators and teachers can use AI art tools to teach a digitally connected generation of artists and help them learn better.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

Enhancing the Gaming Experience [link] The conversation then shifted to the topic of AI-generated content and its potential to enhance the gaming experience for players. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, developers can create more accurate simulations of real-world physics, weather patterns, and even crowd behavior.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The issue of “infinite city spam” seems to be a constant topic in Civ discussions. I loved the story about how players learned to exploit the AI’s “land your fleet at the city with the least defenders” rule. This seems like exactly the kind of thing you would need to manage with AI opponents.

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