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Book Excerpt: Designing Games Meant for Sharing

Game Developer

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts.'

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BitCake Studio built online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote

PreMortem.Games

Mechanical Hand The studio’s upcoming game, Atomic Picnic, is the brainchild of the company’s CEO, Camilla Slotfeldt. Like a mechanical hand and survival aspects inspired by the ‘ Roadside Picnic ’ novel.” “Silly way to make the most impactful decision of your studio’s life, but I remember us talking about it in that way!”,

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Solo dev Jason Priskomatis on his horror debut Friday Night: “Keep pushing your comfort zone”

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While studying Information Technology in Athens, Greece, he created a small game for his thesis. But it also comes with challenges: If a game mechanic takes me three days to implement, thats three days where nothing else is happening in the game. It was always my escape, a comfort place, he says. Why did you become a solo developer?

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The walls are alive with tiny people in Cyborn’s Mixed Reality game Wall Town Wonders

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The game invites players to interact with tiny townsfolk, build unique structures and explore surprises, all while pioneering the possibilities of mixed-reality technology. Elements of Steampunk Another highlight is the airplane control mechanism. “We But I’m happy we put it in already.” Performance optimization was another hurdle.

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QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS

AWS Games

The AWS team has been so helpful in showing us how to use new technology, like generative AI, so that we can focus more of our resources on developing games and testing out innovations instead of building every piece ourselves. The platform is developed with blockchain technology, bridging Web2 and Web3 gaming experiences.

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6 lessons game developers can learn from Epic Games’ cloud governance strategy

AWS Games

Today, Epic continues to rely on AWS technologies to support its worldwide game server fleet. Shane Smith, VP of Technology Services at Epic Games. Enforce standards Before Epics Cloud Governance team could implement policies, they first had to establish the right mechanisms, so Epic partnered with a governance solution provider.

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Nuverse lets AI do all the talking and moving of NPCs in Earth: Revival

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Dao Si, AI Team Leader, at Nuverse is enthusiastic about the technology. Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. The company claims that the majority of players could not tell that the voices were synthesized.

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