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AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025

AWS Games

Build distribution & playtesting: Studios can leverage Amazon GameLift Streams to remotely access and test the latest game builds instantly, without the need for complex installations or downloads.

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new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

Radiator Blog

On modern computers today, rendering this entire level incurs approximately the same processing cost as Nathan Drake's chest hair. Thanks to playtesters JoyModulo and Spootnik for playtesting and feedback, and thanks to Fairweather for organizing and additional QA. Blood Gulch!

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Build High-Performance Unreal Engine Studios with Remāngu 2.0 and AWS

AWS Games

Studios demanded full support for Unreal Engine projects, including efficient data synchronization, optimized build pipelines, and robust game streaming capabilities for remote playtesting. Remngus fully integrated GPU-powered workstations allow teams to work on high-fidelity assets and real-time rendering tasks from anywhere in the world.

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Feral Cat Den is pushing the audio-visual boundaries of games with Nirvana Noir

PreMortem.Games

This time around we’re putting a lot more time and resources into playtesting and catching problems early.” Evan Anthony: “I’m proud of the subtleties of the landscape rendering like the way the reflection is balanced with translucency allowing you to see underneath the surface and have lots of nice depth and parallax.”

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework. Streamline’s plug-and-play framework sits between the game and render API. With GeForce NOW Cloud Playtest, players and observers can be anywhere in the world. Learn more about GeForce Now Cloud Playtest.

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Making the Golden Panda Coin

Sirlin

Playtesting showed that this worked just fine. To accomplish this, I did my own “artist’s rendering” of what the metal coin should look like with various curves and different heights: That looks pretty good, but I cheated here. Here’s my artist’s rendering of that: Looking really good now!

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How to create an animation production pipeline with Flaneer on AWS?

AWS Games

Additionally, AWS provides access to powerful GPUs, which are necessary for rendering high-quality animations. The result is awesome, in one click Flaneer’s client had the possibility to upgrade their machine and observe: A render time of their Blender/Maya projects (on average) 40% faster than what they used before locally.