AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Wednesday, March 19 Effortless Game Launches: How League of Legends Runs at Scale on AWS 10:30am to 11:00am | Room WH2011 Discover how Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends and VALORANT, revolutionized their game server infrastructure with AWS.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The studio aims to develop AAA Epic Games on the Unreal Engine for Fortnite. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newly established Barnyard Games has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round. Read more

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Visual Studio Code - IDE Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a lightweight, free, open-source code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Unreal - Game Engine Unreal Engine is a powerful and production-proven RT3D (Real-Time 3D) computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

This is the workflow for creating a AAA model of an AK-47, using Maya, Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Marmoset. Seasoned gaming studios like ours love Maya for its features and flexibility. This is good for 3D game artists sending their work to Unreal, Unity, or any other game development engine that uses a PBR system.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Game studios today face a growing challenge: delivering visually compelling, platform-agnostic gameplay without sacrificing responsiveness or stretching production timelines. But achieving that level of output requires more than clever engineering. But achieving that level of output requires more than clever engineering.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

During the day he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, creating games like Hearthstone, together with a large group of specialized professionals. 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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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 17, 2023

AAA game development is a complex process that requires well-oiled teamwork from an experienced team. The AAA game development process is an intersection of art, technical skills, writing, and many more disciplines.

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 29, 2023

With AAA console game developers focusing on ensuring their games are more immersive than ever, intersecting gameplay and narrative has never been more crucial. Though the vast majority of games have a story, very few of them allow for meaningful gameplay and story integration.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The onboarding process is a little of everything you say.

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

It’s hard to overstate the dedication of Omeda Studios developers working on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game “Predecessor.” Its core team has developed the game since 2018, even though the studio was officially formed in 2020. We also knew we could trust GameLift with such a tight timeline.”

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

My most recent executive producer started off as a customer service agent at the studio, and worked his way through QA and production. This might surprise you, but more often than not… yes. The CEO of that company was a producer who worked on Everquest for seven years.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Introduction : The importance of selecting a proper game backend Selecting a game backend solution is one of the most significant decisions that game studios face during development. The decision criteria varies depending on the type of game being released, the game launch timeline, the available engineering resources, and studio budgets.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

And one of those guidelines is choosing the correct game engine for your needs. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer. Some people treat game development as a hobby, and in that case you can choose whichever engine you want. Ureal Engine Blueprint Visual Coding Language.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Although it’s difficult to find a trustworthy game art outsourcing studio with a solid industry background and portfolio, I’ll show you 10 reliable art outsourcing companies in this blog. . Below are 10 reliable outsourcing studios that you’ll find extremely helpful: 1. Bosi Art Studio. Nuare Studio.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Game Engine Showdown: Unity vs. Godot vs. Buildbox vs. Unreal Engine. In this game engine faceoff, we’ll explore each game engine’s visual scripting tools to see which engine is the best for beginner game makers and non-coders. . Read the Full Tutorial ?

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar… What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. It’s easy to deploy and scale, and connects well with Unreal. We could go in at any time and look at logs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Furthermore, the acquisition of new studios may also generate additional pressure and competition to achieve. Last year we analyzed the announcement of Supercell US’ studio , which we believe was in part due ever more challenging and saturated mobile market. How do the teams interpret this message from their CEO?

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Starloop Studios

MAY 25, 2023

For most players, hearing the words game engine will conjure up imagery of the likes of Unreal Engine 5, game developers speaking about how useful it is, and promotional material about its array of useful features. The likes of Unreal Engine 5 and Unity undoubtedly have extensive feature sets that help developers in innumerable [.]

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

It was crafted to provide studios with essential background and guidance on practical generative AI capabilities, examine the technology stack, discover game developer use cases, and more. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unfortunately, the real story in the AAA space is that experimental and niche games like RTS games don't have as much of a potential market anymore. If the studio doesn't have a good distribution of work for these devs to do, that inevitably leads to layoffs. Creatives want to be creative, so they pitch creative stuff.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2023

The specifics determine the kind of roles we need to hire - the cinematics team might need several animators, the quest team might need two narrative designers and a gameplay engineer, the item art team might need a VFX artist and a technical artist, and so on and so forth.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g. I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Supercell announced over a year ago that they will be opening a studio in North America. Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In my recent episode, Gray shed light on the current state of affairs in game development, from the migration of talent to new studios, to the challenges of leadership in an increasingly decentralized industry. Roblox, a platform that has exploded in popularity over recent years, offers a contrasting environment to a typical game studio.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2023

The type of role also varies a lot - QA and design applicants are legion, while rarities like engine programmer or technical artist are often unicorns. My current employer is well-known in the AAA franchise space so we tend to get a lot more applications than the studios I’ve worked for with less notoriety.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

For this occasion, we asked Heroic Labs co-founder Mo Firouz to write some words about the company, why they chose to support Godot and their plans to integrate Nakama with our engine. And that’s why we’re excited to support the development of the Godot Engine as a sponsor. Imagine a world where all music had been written for piano.

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Game Dev Unchained

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In my recent episode, Gray shed light on the current state of affairs in game development, from the migration of talent to new studios, to the challenges of leadership in an increasingly decentralized industry. Roblox, a platform that has exploded in popularity over recent years, offers a contrasting environment to a typical game studio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We know that large studios can’t afford the risk of making much else than sequels due to their cost structures. Or it will just free up developers allowing the studios to improve their cost structure. As these and other teams downsize, the studios will need fewer producers. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

Currently not yet, we are still a mobile first game engine, we are not trying to attract AAA studios from using in-house, Unreal, Unity engines. Not yet, we hope more devs can try on Nintendo Switch publish pstrejczek: Are there any plans to support other major console brands (xbox ,playstation) ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

As a non-technical person at a studio, backends never really entered my sphere of interest. In practice, this meant putting my name on a dotted line without understanding the details nor the different options our studio had. Studios share a lot of information!” Right up there with personnel and marketing expenditures.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Here are 3 steps on how to find an outsourcing game development studio that will completely meet your requirements and preferences: Perform thorough industry research and compile a list of potential service providers. These are the main factors to consider when choosing an outsourcing studio: Experience working with AA or AAA game titles.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve held many different titles over the course of my career - scripter, technical designer, system designer, combat designer, game designer, gameplay engineer/programmer, client engineer/programmer, and software engineer/programmer.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

Others argue that it is more than possible with sound engineering backing up the statement with some math. Baldur’s Gate 3 company, Larian Studios, presented the possibilities of storytelling in role-playing games, and it will never be the same! Larian Studios is unfathomabley based. This served two primary purposes.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

In its second session , the company presented a solution that unifies cost, usage, recommendations, performance, governance, and security into a data lake and prescriptive reporting engine known as The Riot Act. Learn more. Learn more.

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

I decided to go with AWS and I’m really glad that I did; it’s not just for big studios,” noted Omidi. In building “Crossfar” on AWS in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, Omidi used both Blueprint visual scripting and custom C++ scripting. Using AWS also helped lower development costs and accelerate iterations.”

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