Stellar Blade dev Shift Up eyes PC port and sequel in studio growth plans
Game Developer
MAY 20, 2024
Shift Up wants to build Stellar Blade into a franchise as it actively begins to start up a new project to become a hopeful cross-platform giant.
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Scopely adds Riot Games alum Mike Seavers as SVP for technology
Game Developer
JUNE 25, 2024
As technology SVP, Seavers will build on Scopely's cross-platform plans across its free-to-play titles.
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Why do you Need to Build Cross-Platform Games in 2023?
Artoon
JUNE 16, 2023
Cross-platform mobile games are a trend that is quickly taking over the […] The post Why do you Need to Build Cross-Platform Games in 2023? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.
What makes Cross-platform game development popular in 2024?
Juego Studio
JANUARY 23, 2024
Accessibility is crucial to building high-quality and popular games in today’s era. As the technologies evolve, there is a paradigm shift towards creating cross-platform games among developers to cater to the growing demand.
QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS
AWS Games
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Most recently, QORPO integrated Amazon GameLift into its infrastructure to enable scalable cross-platform server hosting and matchmaking across titles. In building AneeMate, QORPO 3D artists envisioned the creatures and environments, and storyboard artists mapped out the game.
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New Solution Guidance for building scalable cross-platform game backends on AWS
AWS Games
AUGUST 3, 2023
Games are increasingly cross-platform and online, and game developers need to develop secure and scalable backend features to support these online elements of their games. Developers also want to allow players to play with their friends across platforms, and move gameplay between those platforms to provide a seamless player experience.
Level up game development insights at AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Technical Director Ivan Marcin is back for another groundbreaking session that will guide attendees through building a multi-modal agent using Amazon Bedrock. Games professionals can also attend a workshop to learn how to use generative AI for building game concept storyboards.
Reduced pricing in 22 AWS Regions for Amazon GameLift
AWS Games
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Further reading How Amazon GameLift works New Solution Guidance for building scalable cross-platform game backends on AWS How to host your Unreal Engine game for under $1 per player with Amazon GameLift GitHub repository: amazon-gamelift-toolkit
JetBrains Rider for Godot Engine Development
Game From Scratch
MAY 16, 2023
Rider is a cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) IDE build on their Resharper refactoring tools, originally for.NET development, but increasingly focusing on game development.
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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?
Big Games
MARCH 27, 2025
This article compares these two platforms in detail and explores their features, benefits, and real-world applications to help you make an informed decision. Strength Provides premium assets, especially for high-end 3D games Platform Support and Flexibility Unity Supports over 25 platforms, including Android, iOS, consoles, and VR/AR.
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Insights from Xsolla Funding’s VP on Slowdowns, Self-Publishing and Smart Funding
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that Developers should do their homework before approaching publishers and investors. Find the fun factor in your game and build a demo around that. If you do want to secure funding through Kickstarter it’s crucial that you build a community before launching the campaign. “It’s
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[open source] game frame - XForge
Cocos
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Design Philosophy XForge is committed to providing a lightweight core paired with an extensible plugin system, aiming to build a clear and sustainable development ecosystem for developers. Core Advantages Proven Stability: Years of iteration, cross-platform compatibility, and practical testing in numerous games.
2021 Predictions #3 Top Mobile RPGs Will Go Cross Platform
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 19, 2021
Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. All of the above require serious investments, which increases the risk of building an RPG game for a studio. A smaller studio can still build a very healthy and sustainable business with a very smart approach to content development.
Cracking the Game Growth Code: Lessons from SciPlay
Deconstructor of Fun
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Building on our previous conversation with SciPlay CEO Josh Wilson , this episode dives deeper into the companys growth strategy, talent approach, and staying ahead in the fast-changing world of gaming. This significant crossover creates unique opportunities to align products and strategies across platforms.
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Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 2
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Last week, we released the first of our Release Candidate builds, a state suitable for production settings. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Export: Fix cross-platform configuration of rendering driver settings (narrower approach) ( GH-103197 ).
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CI
Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 6, 2018
Continuous Integration (or, CI, as the pro’s call it) is when a separate and often dedication machine is continuously building (compiling) your game whenever you check in code. It helps ensure that the game can build at all times. You always have a build ready to put into test and then distributed to Steam, Xbox, etc.
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Grumpy Gamer
AUGUST 7, 2018
Continuous Integration (or, CI, as the pro's call it) is when a separate and often dedication machine is continuously building (compiling) your game whenever you check in code. It helps ensure that the game can build at all times. You always have a build ready to put into test and then distributed to Steam, Xbox, etc.
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Understand the principles behind matchmakers – and build one yourself
PreMortem.Games
JULY 19, 2023
Certain platforms let players block other players – making sure that they’re not matched with them again. Cross-platform choices. Similar to the blocking point, some players don’t want to play across platforms and might opt out. We were able to build our own matchmaker and get set up with Gameye in less than a month.
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Scaling Multiplayer Games: The Hidden Challenges and Testing Solutions for Peak Performance
iXie gaming
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Cross-Platform Consistency: Testing for Device Variability and Network Discrepancies Cross-platform consistency testing involves ensuring that a game performs equally well across all devices and networks, despite hardware and network variability. Often, the key may lie in the way single-player testing is done!
2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 31, 2022
An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. With Xsolla you can easily launch your own cross-platform player account system Let your players stay connected and engaged no matter which platform they play on. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Grumpy Gamer
JUNE 25, 2018
We did a lot of things right when building Thimbleweed Park. For those of you not in-the-know, FMOD is a cross-platform music and sound middleware engine and it’s quite impressive. At the time, FMOD was charging $5000 for the first platform and a few thousand for each additional platform. I’m bored.
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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines
iXie gaming
MARCH 2, 2025
The answer lies in scalable art production pipelines that balance speed, quality, and cross-platform optimization. Cross-Platform Considerations Live-service games must be optimized for PC, console, and mobile. Enables dynamic world-building with non-repetitive assets. Challenges include: (i).
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! You can also try the Web editor or the Android editor for this release. New in Beta 1!
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Freedom Games supports the indie game community with AWS
AWS Games
MARCH 12, 2024
Established in 2020, Freedom Games has built a platform that supports many indie studios every year, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the core infrastructure. Serving developers and fans Freedom Games provides developers with AWS-based tools for cross-platform game development, including multiplayer hosting with Amazon GameLift.
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What’s New In Unity 2023 – All You Need To Know
Logic Simplified
JULY 24, 2023
The creators of the popular JetBrains Rider IDE wrote on their blog“ At present, Unity stands out as one of the most popular and versatile cross-platform game engines available, catering to the creation of 2D, 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality games. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”.
Aldora market forecast 2025: Game Industry is slowly moving upward
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 26, 2024
Despite generating substantial revenues, major platforms like Twitch continue to struggle with profitability. Among the more notable trends on the horizon are the expanding efforts around transmedia strategies, as major entertainment companies adopt cross-platform approaches.
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Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Grumpy Gamer
JUNE 26, 2018
We did a lot of things right when building Thimbleweed Park. For those of you not in-the-know, FMOD is a cross-platform music and sound middleware engine and it's quite impressive. At the time, FMOD was charging $5000 for the first platform and a few thousand for each additional platform.
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From past responses you clearly have some experience with the console cert process. I was wondering: why do so few games offer cross platform play? Does the cert process become disproportionately more difficult when communicating to other systems becomes involved? Or is it just a difficult feature from a purely engineering pov? Thank you!
Ask a Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
In order to solve this, the any third party developer needs to build a system that can take data from any supported service and translate it in real time so all players on other platforms understand what's happening in the game. Every sale within that walled garden typically earns the platform owner a 30% cut.
EA’s Metalhead launches ‘Super Mega Baseball 4’ with cross-play for six platforms using Amazon GameLift
AWS Games
JUNE 6, 2023
With Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its backend, the Metalhead team accelerate and optimized its development and deployment of “SMB 4,” ultimately launching the game simultaneously on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with global support for cross-platform play.
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Godot Showcase - Museum of All Things
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
And the beauty of this museum being a virtual experience is that theres no space to rent or building to upkeep, so I can afford to make it free! The cross-platform support was a big selling point to me as well! So I really want my project to pay that goodwill forward as much as I can. How did you discover Godot?
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How Milestone turbocharged the ‘Hot Wheels Unleashed’ franchise with Amazon GameLift
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Since then, Milestone has continued building out its Amazon GameLift implementation and use of AWS solutions, including Amazon EC2 Spot Instances , ultimately reducing latency by 75 percent and costs by 70 percent, with negligible interruptions.
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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024
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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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Cross-Platform Compatibility Cross-platform gameplay is one of the biggest game development trends of 2023. So, game developers must seek mobile game engines that support cross-platform development. However, with time, it started supporting multiple platforms. Let’s find out.
Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024
Logic Simplified
APRIL 1, 2024
The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Concept Art: Concept art shows how the characters, objects, buildings, and areas will look. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.
As Square Enix changes it’s strategy from focusing on one platform to aiming for multi-platform releases, I wonder- how much effort does it take to do multiplatform dev from the start versus porting to them later? And even then- how long DOES it take / cost to make to make a port from a comparative platform like say, PS5 to Xbox Series? Is there a way you can use your experience in the industry to guess an average, or is it completely different from game to game and you can’t make any estimations without WAY more data? I guess I’m just curious why SquareEnix released 15 for all formats to greater sales than either XVI or VIIremakes, but still decided to go PS first, others way later down the line.
Ask a Game Dev
MAY 16, 2024
It's relatively easy to build a game out of a generic system and task our engine programmers with getting that generic system working on each of our target platforms. As for why Square-Enix decided to go platform exclusive with FF16 and the FF7 Remakes, it is likely that Sony offered them a seemingly-better deal.
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Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre
Deconstructor of Fun
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console.
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How to decide for resource limits when developing games for pc? Like memory usage limit
Ask a Game Dev
JUNE 20, 2024
If we're developing a cross-platform game, we aim for the best performance we can squeeze out of our lead platform. We aim the majority of our dev time for that first and then we adjust up/down for the other platforms we're building for to stay within reasonable performance specs. GHz, and so on.
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How Much Does It Cost To Develop a 2D Online Teen Patti Mobile Game App?
Logic Simplified
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
As a leading mobile 3D game development company, Logic Simplified receives countless queries requesting information on building game applications, the most popular one being, how much does it cost to make a game, like an online 2D Teen Patti mobile game, including how much does it cost to hire a game developer.
Omeda Studios swaps out ‘Predecessor’ backend in less than five months using Amazon GameLift and Pragma
AWS Games
MAY 14, 2024
Omeda released the first build of “Predecessor” for PC as Paid Early Access at the end of 2021, then as a free online test in April 2022. The change was implemented ahead of its latest release, which made the game free-to-play across platforms. AWS is a games industry gold standard, so going with GameLift was an easy decision.
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Harmony Games Deploys a Fully Custom Game Backend Utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
AWS Games
AUGUST 13, 2024
The first was building its backend from scratch, which the studio quickly determined would take too long. The second was partnering with a third-party Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform (a common choice for startup game studios), but Harmony found the solutions difficult to customize for their game.
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Top 5 Coding Languages Compatible with the Unity Game Development Engine
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
This platform provides numerous features and tools to build games for several devices, including consoles, desktops, virtual reality/augmented reality, and mobile devices. Unity is a robust and user-friendly game development engine that enables you to build everything from 2D platforms to comprehensive 3D games in one platform.
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Authentication for Mobile Games
AWS Games
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Social login integration, for platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Apple ID or others, that can make the sign-up and sign-in processes simpler for players is also something to consider. This includes reviewing what SDKs are available for platforms such as iOS and Android, and for programming languages such as C# and JavaScript.
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2023: Year in Retrospect for the Gaming Industry
iXie gaming
JANUARY 19, 2024
Growth in Cross-platform Gaming Cross-platform games have become more popular than ever. One out of four gamers play cross-platform as of 2023. Well, this implies that developers have had to work more on cross-platform games, ensuring they deliver seamless cross-platform experiences.
The Game Developer’s Guide to re:Invent 2023
AWS Games
OCTOBER 26, 2023
11:30 AM–12:30 PM: GAM301: Chalk Talk: Build cost-effective video games with AWS Graviton See an Unreal Engine multiplayer game running on x86 and deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and learn about the steps you can take to introduce Graviton instances into your compute mix.
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