UK regulatory board issues new game-focused data protection requests
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The ICO's suggestion for game developers aim to keep the large number of young game players in the UK safe.
Azur Games migrates all game analytics data to ClickHouse Cloud on AWS
AWS Games
JULY 16, 2024
Azur Games , a mobile game publisher and developer, recently achieved over 8 billion game installs across their portfolio of hypercasual games. Azur Games needed robust data infrastructure to store, process, and analyze the constant influx of data, informing their rapid product iterations and marketing strategies.
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What’s the Best Time to Request Permission From Users for ATT? (iOS)
Game Refinery
MAY 31, 2023
When Apple introduced its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy in April 2021, it forced companies to seek permission from app users before tracking their data and activity across other apps and websites for advertising purposes. This got us wondering: is there an ideal time to ask users for data tracking consent?
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Level up game development insights at AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
AWS-expert led chalk talks, workshops and sessions dive into using AI to boost developer productivity and enhance the player experience, among other exciting topics. Games professionals can also attend a workshop to learn how to use generative AI for building game concept storyboards.
How data fuels the growth of John Ikpeme’s (and friends) Dash Studios
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
He started his journey as a trained Petroleum Engineer but discovered his true passion for Data Science during his final year at Covenant University. “I I worked with a lot of data then,” he recalls, “and I loved how the data told a story and gave insights on what should be done.” Games were a big part of Ikpeme’s childhood.
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6 Reasons Why Board Game Development is So Iterative
Brand Game Development
MAY 13, 2019
Board game development is notorious for its trial-and-error approach. Experienced designers and developers will tell you that it’s all about iteration. You may create dozens of versions of the same game until you finally find one you’re satisfied with. Need help on your board game? Trends change fast.
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QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS
AWS Games
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Grabbing the attention of gamers is challenging in a crowded market, but QORPO s unique video gaming experiences stand out. Leveraging many managed services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the game developer, publisher, and solutions provider accelerated creative game development for popular titles like Citizen Conflict.
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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024
Logic Simplified
APRIL 1, 2024
Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.
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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2
Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
If you’re a student and you have an interest in game development as a career, you should absolutely look into these. Internships are a great way to earn some experience in a professional environment and to get mentorship from those of us in the trenches. This is part 2 of this year’s internship roundup. Click here for part 1 ].
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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
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.
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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 15, 2023
using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas.
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5 Lessons from Mario Party for Board Game Developers
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 4, 2021
Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Seeing Your Childhood Games with Older Eyes. At the same time, the games could only hold 64 MB worth of data , so they had to make a lot out of a little.
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Build High-Performance Unreal Engine Studios with Remāngu 2.0 and AWS
AWS Games
MARCH 11, 2025
platform is addressing these challenges head-on with its comprehensive cloud-native game development environment built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The technology allows teams to set up their game development environment in the cloud. This feedback-driven development process ultimately led to the launch of Remngu 2.0a
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Death to meetings: Rethinking teamwork in remote game development
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 13, 2023
For decades, game development was done by groups in shared physical spaces. The data suggests not, with Fortune reporting that "US productivity jumped in the second quarter of 2020 as offices closed [due to the pandemic], and stayed at a heightened level through 2021." But will it work?
Q&A with Remedy Entertainment: Adopting USD into the Game Development Pipeline
Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2023
Mika Vehkala has worked in the game development industry for nearly three decades and contributed to projects such as Horizon Zero Dawn and The Walking Dead: No. Mika Vehkala has worked in the game development industry for nearly three decades and contributed to projects such as Horizon Zero Dawn and The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land.
Elon Musk announced that he will open a studio and “Make games great again”
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Despite his credentials in game development—first as a programmer on Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and later in his role at Tesla where he hoped to feature titles like Cuphead as part of the Tesla driving experience—Mr.
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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity
Logic Simplified
APRIL 4, 2025
However, building a well-optimized multiplayer game comes with several challenges which any Unity game development company worth its weight will know how to overcome. Key Components of Multiplayer Games in Unity Networking: Manages data transmission between clients and servers. Look no further! Get in touch.
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Maximize Your Game Data Insights with the updated Game Analytics Pipeline
AWS Games
JUNE 20, 2024
In the highly competitive gaming industry, collecting and utilizing data has become a driving factor for game success. Game studios of all sizes have realized the immense value in analyzing player data to drive key business decisions. For developers, the AWS SDK can be integrated into your game to collect data.
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AI game development legal issues, explained
Game Daily
MAY 12, 2023
I spoke to Moreira about his work, and the current state of AI in game development, and I learned a lot about a complicated issue. Also, decisions taken by AI might have data protection issues. The artificial intelligence created the image from a data set, and your input was minimal, like using a search engine.
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Based 2023’s data, which casual game genres are likely to perform well in 2024?
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The rate was based on the comparison study of the titles’ data. We compared the total number of titles released in 2023 with the number of “successful” new titles, defined as those generating over $50K in monthly revenue in Tier-1-West countries for the last 30 days before the day when we collected our data.
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Implementing USD for Game Development Pipelines: An Interview with Polyphony Digital
Nvidia
MARCH 17, 2023
Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline? Unlike asset data, everything is in small ASCII files.
Ethical Considerations in Game Analytics: Balancing Data and Privacy
iXie gaming
MAY 24, 2024
In the vast realm of gaming, where virtual worlds intersect with reality, lies a complex web of data analytics. Developers have long utilized game analytics for various purposes, such as understanding player behavior, enhancing user experience, and improving game design.
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Nearing the Finish Line: Rewriting the Untold Engine
Harold Serrano
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
This design keeps the engine modular and scalable, separating the game logic into three straightforward parts: Entities: These are the game objects (think players, cars, obstacles). Components: The data attached to entities, like meshes, physics, or animations. It’s all designed to make game development as smooth as possible.
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The power in granting access to the gaming industry | Black Voices Progress Report
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Many game developers love data, whether it comes as a spreadsheet, a pie chart or a feedback box – so in some ways, Adanna Nedd's move from academic research to game development isn't all that surprising. You can read more about the project and check out the other entries on this page. Read more
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Helldivers 2 is a major hit in the UK | UK February Charts
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 8, 2024
million video games were sold in the UK during February, a drop of 5.5% This is based on data from GSD, which tracks digital game sales from most major publishers, and all physical sales. The notable absent game from the charts is Palworld, because the game's developer isn’t included in the GSD system.
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Unity Release 2024 Game Development Report
Game From Scratch
MARCH 18, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unity Release 2024 Game Development Report Unity have just released their annual Unity Gaming Report on the state of game development in 2024. It gives a good insight into […] The post Unity Release 2024 Game Development Report appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Scaling Multiplayer Games: The Hidden Challenges and Testing Solutions for Peak Performance
iXie gaming
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Multiplayer games are becoming more complex every single day – but so is the challenge of maintaining a stable, high-performance environment. Scaling is not merely about increasing server capacity but requires a nuanced approach to managing synchronization, network stability, security, and cross-region data consistency.
Learn How To Get Data From API in Unreal Engine 5 by Building a Virtual Art Gallery
DameDev.tv
MARCH 7, 2023
It provides a set of instructions that enable different systems to communicate with one another, specifying the methods for sending and receiving data, as well as the actions that can be performed. 1) To make the JSON data more readable, you may want to install a browser extension, such as "JSON Prettifier" or "JSON Formatter."
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How AWS Powered Global Power Rankings for LoL Esports Worlds 2024
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Bringing Data-Driven Insights to Fans Providing a transparent, global ranking system for LoL Esports teams has been a long-standing challenge and priority for Riot Games. This validates the GPR data is reliably stored and available. The frontend can then cache this data for display.
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Enhancing Game and Media Workflows with Global File Systems on AWS
AWS Games
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Specifically, video production and game development require efficient workflows that involve multiple departments and span different time zones. Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important.
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Less than half of devs say their employers "adequately enforce" harassment and anti-discrimination policies
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 2, 2024
The International Game Developers Association released its 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey today, which saw developers highlight numerous issues including equity, diversity, and inclusion, layoffs, and crunch.
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The Top 6 Board Game Components to Add to Your Game
Brand Game Development
APRIL 13, 2020
However, for a publisher or designer seeking to make their own games, there are trends that can be followed! Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. How I Gathered Data on Favorite Board Game Components. How I Cleaned Up the Data.
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Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache
AWS Games
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. Configuring shared DDC in the cloud complements virtual workstations with faster response times and a more efficient development process. It preserves this data, eliminating the need for regeneration unless any changes occur.
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Riot Games prepares to close its last data center as it completes global migration to AWS
AWS Games
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Starting in 2017, Riot Games made the decision to decommission its physical data centers and move entirely to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Since then, 14 data centers have been closed, with data centers in Las Vegas and Chile shutting down in the past month. We wanted to be much more agile.”
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The Sweet Art of Feature Adaptation
Deconstructor of Fun
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
It's about finding that sweet spot where a borrowed idea becomes a natural extension of your game, enhancing the player experience without compromising your original design. Homescapes (top) and Fishdom (bottom) already received their updates, likely providing data for Gardenscapes to follow them.
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Drive-Up Your Revenues with Seasonal Events
Game Refinery
MARCH 16, 2023
The data and examples shown here are gathered from the GameRefinery service, which you can access here. Characters were assigned with event-specific skills and leveling them up was linked to the Buddy rank system, adding a seasonal twist to the game’s traditional RPG mechanics.
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How to Tell When Play-Testing Feedback is Useful or Not
Brand Game Development
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. ” Need help on your board game? Click here.
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Midgard’s mission to decarbonise the game industry “We don’t really have a choice”
PreMortem.Games
MAY 3, 2024
By empowering both developers and players to make environmentally conscious choices, Midgard aims to catalyse change within the gaming ecosystem. – Lente Central to Midgard’s approach is its data collection and analysis process. However, Midgard goes beyond mere emissions quantification.
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Only a handful of studios in Slovakia generate the lion share of game revenues
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Pixel Federation is still the biggest game studio in the country, both in employment (270 workers) and revenue. All these numbers and more interesting facts about the Slovakian games industry are taken from the annual report from the Slovak Game Developers Association (SGDA).
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AWS gears up for action-packed Gamescom and Devcom 2024
AWS Games
AUGUST 15, 2024
One of the world’s most anticipated games industry events, the conference brings together developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers from around the world alongside the gaming community to celebrate industry achievements and discuss the trends shaping the industry’s future. Register here.
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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024
AWS Games
MARCH 6, 2024
With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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Why the Highways & Byways Kickstarter Campaign Crashed & Burned
Brand Game Development
APRIL 13, 2018
Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. When I created this blog, I created it to help see creators through the entire game development process. I never used market data to validate this game. Use that data!
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Popul8 uses AI to assist developers with the creation of digital game characters
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 13, 2023
The use of AI in game development has the potential to revolutionize the way games are designed and created. Based on her research into avatars she created a tool to turn 2D photographic data into 3D fully rigged and animatable digital characters.
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Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity
AWS Games
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
This challenge presents itself in many industries – ranging from gaming to social media networks. However, the volume of data and interactions between users increases daily making policing these communities more and more difficult. Therefore, a massively scalable platform to collect streaming data in real time is needed.
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