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Local testing to cloud deployment: development workflows in Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

Understanding Amazon GameLift Anywhere: local development streamlined Amazon GameLift Anywhere takes advantage of Amazon GameLift features with developer hosted resources. Setting up a local Amazon GameLift Anywhere fleet is quick. Figure 1: Amazon GameLift local development to production deployment workflow.

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What makes code “hard coded” compared to other code, why is it so difficult to change, and why would developers hard code something rather than use normal code?

Ask a Game Dev

In order to understand how something is "hard coded", you need to understand what we do to the code in order to make it run on your device. Code is written in a human-readable format, but there is a lot of optimization and changes that get done to the code before the device can run it.

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Steam Auth Issues

Grumpy Gamer

When they are done, my local script is notified and they are download locally. To upload to Steam you need to authenticate, which usually involves getting an email and typing in a code or doing the same with their authentication app. I type pub.sh --test on the command line and a long chain of events is started.

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Certification QA for Console Games: Console Compliance Testing Without Delays 

iXie gaming

Localization & Legal Text Requirements include region-specific warnings (e.g., Note: Missing localization strings, bad formatting, or absent licensing acknowledgments can block your game in global regions. Impact : Last-minute code rewrites, additional QA cycles, and missed release windows.

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Comprehensive Guide to Game QA: Ensuring Quality from Alpha to Release 

iXie gaming

This includes: First-party compliance (TRC/XR/LOT checks) Localization and linguistic validation Hardware compatibility testing across device variants Failures here can cause launch delays, reputational risk, and platform delisting , making QA a business-critical gatekeeper. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo).

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Yggdrasil Gaming boosts speed, resilience, and innovation with GOStack and AWS

AWS Games

An AI-driven future: no-code game creation for the next generation Yggdrasil is reimagining game development with a bold vision: eliminate technical barriers and empower creativity through AI and no-code tools. Generative AI assists with asset adaptation, localization, and QA, dramatically reducing time-to-market and cost.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

For those that don’t speak.NET lingo, “NativeAOT” refers to the ability for.NET applications to compile directly to a device’s native code, bypassing the need for the.NET runtime entirely. GH-74393 ) Code completion for overridden user-defined methods. ( And more: TextEdit/LineEdit: Add support for OEM Alt codes input. (