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How an indie developer realized an out-of-this-world vision for multiplayer video game “Crossfar” using Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

Imagined as a sci-fi take on esports, the game was developed in only two years by a single developer, Kavosh Omidi, using Amazon GameLift dedicated server management on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The independently published title launched on Steam in July 2022, and has since attracted more than 50,000 players.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

Deconstructor of Fun

That makes them the closest thing in games to a rock supergroup: Maya Kylmamaa (Game Lead, Engineer) , was CEO of the now defunct Reforged Studios (a Helsinki studio focused on AAA strategy games). This roguelike bullet-hell game has been one of the most loved PC games of the year and sits at position one on steam’s “best of 2022” list ( 1 ).

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Supercell’s Strategic Initiatives that Will Transform the Company

Deconstructor of Fun

2022 was yet another declining year for Supercell. Supercell’s total revenue (Liikevaihto) declined in 2022 but is considerably up compared to 2020. I would suggest that the mobile industry’s slowdown in growth and decline in 2022 is, in part, evidence that more innovative games are needed, including from us.” Both amazing.”

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The Hybridcasual Gamble

Deconstructor of Fun

If you look at the top 30 new downloaded games in 2022, what you’ll find out is that none of them was a hypercasual game. You only have existing games in the hypercasual space that have been successful in 2022. For the entire mobile games industry, revenue was down for the first time ever in 2022. year-over-year).

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The Game Developer’s Guide to AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS Games

AWS re:Invent was back in full force in 2022 with over 50,000 members of the global cloud community coming together in Las Vegas for the 11th edition of the conference. In this session , the company shared its esports journey from a stopgap solution to laying the foundation for the next generation of esports fandom with Project Stryker.

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