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Electronic Arts streamlines game patching with AWS

AWS Games

Electronic Arts (EA) engages players around the globe in immersive games across PC, console, and mobile. This automated process takes less than an hour to complete for a AAA title, outputting pre-computed, incremental patches for previous versions of the game. This post was co-authored by Bryan Chiu, Site Reliability Engineer, EA.

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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What build system do AAA studios typically use? I know that Electronic Arts has their own build system, but is this common?

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Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher. This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build.

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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”

PreMortem.Games

Haman in his home office, surrounded by unfinished electronics projects, lit by an implausible number of computer monitors and sipping off-brand energy drinks. I wonder if AAA games like GT7 and Forza use the same type of workarounds that are totally detached from a physically-based car?” When we finally did, we found Jonathan C.

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Some questions about Cocos Creator

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pstrejczek: Is there a reason Electron is the preferred way for Steam publishing ? But currently we don’t have builtin Steam SDK integration yet, and there is mature Steam SDK integration in Electron. But currently we don’t have builtin Steam SDK integration yet, and there is mature Steam SDK integration in Electron.

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I remember watching a documentary on the development of Jedi: Fallen Order and seeing a part where they are focusing on a stable build. They apparently had 1,000+ bugs they needed squashed to accomplish this. As a gamer, this seems like an unrealistic amount. Is it? How is it possible they were able to not only introduce, but also find that many bugs? Even for a studio that’s a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, I can’t imagine the Quality Assurance team finding even over 100. Sorry for the longer question, but this always blew my mind. Thanks!

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Consider - in AAA games, we bring on entire teams of QA to test every day during production. How do they find that many bugs? Imagine 50 testers each find only five bugs a day from a full eight hours of testing. That's logging a combined 250 bugs daily. In a week, you've got 1,250 bugs. After a month, that's 5,000 bugs.

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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely” 

PreMortem.Games

I wanted to design consumer electronics and gadgets so I studied Industrial Design and Technology. Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games. “I never expected I would be working in games at all when I was younger.

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