PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. After encouragement from a friend, I studied and began building modded move sets (PSAs) in Smash Bros: Brawl for mages and characters from other franchises, independently, using the forums as guidance.” Working solo comes naturally to Finley: “I’ve spent my life working alone.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2025

I had never actually shipped any gameplay features with code I had written. One that would force him to master every aspect of game creation, from coding to marketing. One thing I do to try and balance this out a little is work in an office one day a week. I didnt feel like I was learning that much with each new game, he says.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 24, 2023

The path to success in such an environment is often unclear, with industry veterans having to navigate uncharted waters as they seek to build and evolve their companies. “What you really care about is the end product, and it doesn’t matter if you build the foundations,” Tadej shared.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 11, 2024

Traditionally, a machine learning practice that accurately predicts player churn required a team of data scientists with a supporting team to manage the infrastructure to run those ML predictions—all of which takes cycles away from building and improving the actual game. Download the game-features-balanced dataset to build the model.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

As such, this guide will be split into five parts: Mailing List Basics Setting up a Mailing List on MailChimp Creating a Landing Page that Works Creating a Template that Works Building Your Mailing List. You can create forms hosted by MailChimp and you can also get HTML code which you can put on your own website. Mailing List Basics.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Multiple actors balance different projects, personal commitments, and contractual obligations at the time. Let's examine everything involved in creating a balanced shooting schedule that benefits everyone involved. Production teams must direct complex scheduling while balancing creative vision and budget limitations.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Balancing these protocols is essential for managing the rapid transfer of player actions without creating excessive strain on the network. However, accurate prediction becomes exponentially more difficult at scale, demanding rigorous, data-driven testing to perfect the balancing act between real-time responsiveness and server-side accuracy.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Traditionally, gaming companies relied on application load balancers (ALBs) or network load balancers (NLBs) to connect players to services. AWS Global Accelerator can modernize your backend services that use application load balancers or network load balancers.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Final Factory blends factory building and spaceship design with RTS-style troop commanding and classic bullet-hell gameplay. Hence the premise of the game is that you are a Von Neumann probe, sent to consume all the resources in the Universe and build the ultimate (final) factory. Pretty impressive for a largely solo-developed game. “At

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many game developers struggle to build game backend systems that can scale for large numbers of players, especially during events like game launches where there can be very high and unpredictable amounts of traffic. Code Wizards and Heroic Cloud built the solution shown in this high-level architecture: Figure 1: Load testing architecture.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel. RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me, he says. Good money after bad The team now faced a tough decision.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding that a game wasn’t going to build itself, I quit my job and just went for it.” He spent two years building Oakenfold after a successful Kickstarter campaign got him part of the necessary funds. If you can imagine it, you can build it”, he says. Then he discovered the Unreal Engine and everything changed.

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Half Geek

JULY 28, 2022

This update contains a lot of changes that I have wanted to do for a long time, but the “don’t change working code” worry kept me from doing it. Firstly to Android (Google Play), then PC Steam* and later iOS if Apple allows my old MacBook to use their newer software to build apps for iTunes. They were holding back.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Dynamic NPC Dialog Demo highlighted Ada, an example for building an in-game non-player character (NPC) as a generative AI application, using Unreal Engine MetaHuman by Epic Games. Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!, the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. The full sample for game server, game client and backend functionalities, including source code and deployment instructions, can be found in the AWS Sample GitHub repository.

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Real Programming

JUNE 16, 2022

All the hurdles and difficulties related to COVID-19 have only made this balance harder to strike. Let’s check out the ways RP4K balances fun and education. We have taught kids how to code for over 20 years, and in our experience, younger teachers with first-hand experience playing video games make the most effective teachers.

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Real Programming

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

How can parents introduce computer coding to kids in a way that prepares them for the digital world , while still leaving space for timeless pre-digital childhood joys? The coding language Python holds the key, so let’s read more about how RP4K lessons incorporate this powerful beginner coding language for young students.

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Real Programming

AUGUST 17, 2023

How do parents keep them motivated to learn coding online after the school day is out? Fun and Play is Everything RP4K is here to make coding classes for kids fun, first and foremost, and we do that by making the sessions revolve around kids making their own video games. They’re just meant to convey what coding is like to beginners.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 13, 2025

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. Skillz is betting that a developer will crack the code for a genre that hasnt yet been optimized for competitive, real-money play. Lets dive in.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It’s a simple but very slickly designed “business sim” where you build your own ‘crypto exchange’, with a hamster as CEO. CASHING OUT: The actual Stars balance a game publisher earns can be reinvested in ads promoting the app , which in theory cuts out a lot of the “middle man” costs necessary for a publisher to pay in standard mobile gaming.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 17, 2025

Ever watched a tightrope walker adjust their balance mid-stride? Free Sign Up The Secret Sauce of Schedule Flexibility Ready to crack the code of film scheduling? Building Blocks of a Bendy Schedule Think of your film shooting schedule like a game of Tetris every piece needs to fit just right.

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Although it mostly employs C++, it also provides a visual scripting language called Blueprints that lets programmers construct intricate mechanics without knowing how to code. While it doesn’t match Unreal’s rendering power, it balances quality and performance well for smartphone devices.

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AWS Games

MAY 7, 2024

Palia’s external traffic is routed through a geo-load balanced domain name system (DNS) address to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Using this method, the team identified inefficient code paths, balanced resource requests and limits, and tweaked auto scaling metrics.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 31, 2024

I realized how unique our architecture, roads, and buildings are compared to other parts of the world. We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. The full production arts followed that style continuously to make sure the art was consistent throughout.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Striking the balance between player privacy and safety for online communities is the challenge facing games studios today. Players expect privacy, but long gone are the halcyon days of early, friendly online gaming. Today, when players interact with strangers in online games it can all too often lead to toxic behaviour. Read more

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AWS Games

JULY 18, 2024

Dynamic in-game economy adjustments and regular content updates keep the game balanced, fresh, and extend player session times. The article outlines how to leverage infrastructure-as-code with Terraform to build clusters based on Amazon EKS best practices. role/elb" = 1 } private_subnet_tags = { "kubernetes.io/role/internal-elb"

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 31, 2023

ALT By far the most common boring common work as a game dev is “waiting for the game or level to finish building”. Build times are probably the greatest time period of lost productivity and boredom among game developers the world over. That is easily collective years across the team lost to waiting for the game to build.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Game developers want to get started quickly, while following best practices and building for scale, cost efficiency, and observability. A guest login can be made automatically in your game client code. This takes time and focus away from what really matters, the specific features that make their games’ online experience unique.

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AWS Games

JULY 23, 2024

I can’t wait to see what OVERDARE users build with the technology,” shared Alex Breg, Kinetix Marketing and Business Associate. Kinetix is also exploring how Amazon SageMaker might help it build, train, and deploy ML models at scale. What has been accomplished thus far is only the beginning.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I don’t write any code; instead, I handle data from our games or the market to guide the company’s direction. While I don’t build the games myself, I guide the developers on what to create. Lazy afternoon “When I joined the industry, I noticed that many game developers try to do everything—coding, animating, designing, and writing.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Unity, once synonymous with indie development, now stands as a serious contender for console-quality game builds. Build Performance-First to Ship on Time and Scale with Confidence Performance is a budget, not a luxury. Geometry: Build with LODs from the start, batch static meshes, and constrain polycounts based on hardware targets.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There are other ways to build a game on a budget. Reigns does a good job balancing this information while leaving enough mystery for unexpected twists. And Kaigan Games did a great job building relatable and believable characters. Google’s text adventure was originally a hidden game in Google’s source code. Change: 10/10.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Multithreading and workload balancing No amount of GPU work optimization will overcome a CPU bottleneck. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results. Recommended Balance command list creation and recording across all threads. This should be balanced with the ability to maximize workload overlap on the GPU.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel.” RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. It looked really exciting to me”, he says. Good money after bad The team now faced a tough decision.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

I realized how unique our architecture, roads, and buildings are compared to other parts of the world. We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. The full production arts followed that style continuously to make sure the art was consistent throughout.”

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Real Programming

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At RP4K, that mostly means learning how to write code in Python. RP4K instructors start with regular shapes for all objects in the games children code but let them customize to discover sprites and pictures. Students can learn at their own pace while coding a video game. A Building Block for the Next Coding Language.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles and code of the static occlusion culling solution in Cocos Cyberpunk. This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Tips: In order to preview in the editor, the code for baking and culling are shared in the same ts file.

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