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Respawn veteran Stig Asmussen forms Giant Skull to build AAA single player games

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Experienced veterans from EA's Respawn studio have formed a new AAA team called Giant Skull. The developer is led by Stig Asmussen, who is best known as the game director for 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

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Wizards of the Coast: "There are lots of ways to express Dungeons & Dragons beyond RPGs"

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We do have AAA games that are in development," he says. We've announced some of the partnerships that we have with the likes of Starbreeze and Gameloft to build D&D games. I'll leave it to your imagination where they might take that. Read more

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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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Solo dev Evan Polekoff of Critter Crossfire “Motivation is a limited resource” 

PreMortem.Games

With the game now announced for a 2024-release, the part time solo dev is motivated to finish the game. After that, if you want to ship something, you need to build discipline.” In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities.

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Thoughts on the Bioware restructuration/lay-offs?

Ask a Game Dev

I've long said that any AAA game studio, no matter how strong, is always 2-3 flops in a row away from closure. One factor was that 2024 was the first full year since 2012 that Bioware didn't have SWTOR on their books anymore - SWTOR went over to Broadsword in late 2023.

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Untold Stories of ex-Activision Blizzard King’s Founders

Deconstructor of Fun

The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. In 2024 YTD, a slight rebound indicates cautious optimism but continued conservatism in investment size. In 2024 YTD, ten deals totaled $49m in disclosed funding. over 38 rounds during the same period.

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Harmony Games Deploys a Fully Custom Game Backend Utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

AWS Games

The first was building its backend from scratch, which the studio quickly determined would take too long. The framework provides templates for getting started with serverless and container-based backend feature development, and includes an end-to-end Amazon GameLift Integration for building multiplayer games.

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