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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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In a previous post you mentioned that “the cost of development for AAA fidelity games is mostly too high now to be profitable on their own”. And we have heard that it’s more expensive now to make games than ever before. But we also hear that profits from games are higher than ever before as well. How do those two statements go together? If profits from making games have gone up (with a bigger market, what I presume is DLC bringing in extra money) why are game prices still rising from 60 to 70 USD, for example?

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We're seeing record profits from successful games and we're seeing a bunch of unsuccessful games pull the profits down because those unsuccessful games cost just as much as the successful games to build. When profits are expected to rise, shareholders want companies to hire and increase production.

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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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5 Tactics for the Volatile PC/Console Market

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. Recently, I had the privilege of discussing the latest market insights with Devan Brennan, Senior Consultant at Newzoo, dissecting their August 2024 market forecasts. in growth for the year 2024.

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