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

AWS Games

With a beta launch of its first game “Domino Adventures” (a casual mobile game in the connect tiles space, with an RPG twist) just months away, Harmony also needed a solution that could be implemented quickly. About Harmony Games Harmony Games was founded by AAA industry veterans Volkan Ediz, James Koh, and Joseph Kubiak.

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Untold Stories of ex-Activision Blizzard King’s Founders

Deconstructor of Fun

The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. Echtra Games is working on an unannounced AAA ARPG for PC and console platforms. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4 million downloads collectively. In Oct’24, the studio released a new game called Wordee!

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Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Other AAA games with lots of content going on. It did so by alternating which tiles were processed every frame, so it never needed to process thousands of them at the same time (which would be impossible on a 6502 CPU). Sandboxes (lots of tiny things need processing every frame). Ever wondered how SimCity could run on a Commodore 64?

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Gem Wizards Tactics Post-Mortem

Keith Burgun

Especially given the Advance Wars-ish look, I think I would have gained more from making the tiles square instead of hexagonal. Hexes are better, from a purely tactical standpoint, but squares look better and people are way more used to them. It’s kind of a miracle if anyone finishes any game.

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