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Solo developer Kaighen Finley: “It’s easy to lose myself in game development”

PreMortem.Games

Overall, I call this process ‘Idea-smithing’ and with it I have crafted features, spells, stories and entire game concepts. Seemingly small features or changes can balloon the scope of any task. This one is both actual & tangible. This stage reads the shortest but often takes the most time.” If you can imagine it, you can build it.

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How Meta’s Oculus Studios Division reduces game development time and costs with Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

Additional considerations include building with live services, cross-play support, and features like chat—as well as integrating each studio’s release process. The engineering team is also responsible for examining and integrating quality assurance, testing and release approaches, and office setups.

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Release Management: 4.0 and beyond

Mircosoft Game Dev

We have been in feature freeze since mid-August and have been focused on fixing workflow breaking bugs since then (well, we have accepted some small features and enhancements on occasion). branch into our main development branch and other contributors joined in to add features and fix bugs. prior to release is in full swing.

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9 Popular Video Game Testing Tools in the Market to Level Up Your Game QA 

iXie gaming

Join us as we review some popular video game testing tools to level up your game QA or quality assurance. This feature set enables you to thoroughly test your video game, ensuring it works as expected and is free from errors. This means you must design your game to handle an increased workload without affecting functionality.

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The Top Game Test Automation Tools You Need to Know About

iXie gaming

This tool helps quality assurance (QA) teams find and localize game errors and bugs. Its unique features work with Python and JS and support all internet platforms and browsers. This engine features one of the most robust built-in automated test frameworks. Unity Test Framework Unity is a popular game development engine.

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Maximize Your Game Data Insights with the updated Game Analytics Pipeline

AWS Games

The Updated Game Analytics Pipeline Today, the GAP solution has been updated, and modernized to provide customers the ability to deploy the latest AWS service, and feature updates, using a DataOps engineering practice for their game analytics requirements.

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AI-Driven Automated Game Testing

iXie gaming

QA (Quality Assurance) teams are having a tough time meeting player expectations. Welcome to the future of game testing, where AI-powered quality assurance is the star. Gauges player reactions to new features or content, helping developers make informed decisions. Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting.

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