Amazon Game Tech Blog

  Whether you’re clashing clans, raiding tombs, or winning your hard-earned chicken dinners, there’s little doubt that video games have made a major impact on pop culture. Games help us recharge in quiet moments on the go; they thrill us, scare us, challenge us, and teach us new skills. For that, we have game developers […]

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce a new Game Tech learning path that organizes all Game Tech courses into one place. Whether you’re a solutions architect, game developer, data engineer, or data analyst, this learning path provides structured guidance on where to begin your training and next steps to gain expertise. As we develop new […]

To our friends across the industry, AWS has made the difficult decision to withdraw from the 2020 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco due to continued concerns over COVID-19. While we won’t get to see everyone at GDC this year, we still have exciting things to share. AWS Game Tech has decided to host a global […]

Today we’re excited to feature a guest blog post by Travis Boatman & Lloyd Tullues, two of the founders from Carbonated. Carbonated is an independent game studio founded by a team of industry vets who’ve worked on popular mobile titles, including Zynga Poker, Simpsons Tapped Out, Sims Free Play and Madden Mobile. We were inspired […]

  Today we’re excited to release Lumberyard Beta 1.23, featuring over 40 stability and performance improvements. Some highlights include the addition of cloth physics, EMotion FX improvements, and ease of use updates to the slice system. Let’s take a closer look: Experimental NVIDIA Cloth Gem – The NVIDIA Cloth Gem allows customers to add both, environmental and character […]

Many games these days have an inventory of some sort. Whether it’s an MMORPG where your character maintains an inventory of weapons, armor and other equipment picked up while adventuring, or a casual match three where the player collects power ups and coins. Believe it or not, even in such different games, the requirements for […]

We invited AWS APN Partner Polystream Platform Architect Scott Perham to write a guest blog. Learn how Polystream deliver 3D interactivity at scale using AWS services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  We are witnessing the next evolution of cloud gaming, 3D interactive apps like 3D car configurators and collaborative development using cloud-based tools but there […]

In this guest post, AWS customer GameAnalytics Senior Software Developer Magnus Henoch shares how GameAnalytics saves money on running its HTTP(S) API on AWS. At GameAnalytics we run all our systems on AWS, and have done so from the very beginning. This has allowed us to concentrate on building services and implementing features that our […]

We recently published an e-book called Introduction to Scalable Game Development Patterns on AWS, and I wanted to talk a bit about it as I think it’s a great resource. It will help you understand how to get started with any aspect of online play, be it as simple as setting up a leaderboard all […]

The games industry is increasingly investing in games that people play for longer and engage with more deeply. To get there, games are hitting marketplaces much faster and are iterated upon to regularly introduce new experiences that keep players coming back for months, or in Behaviour Interactive’s case, years. Montreal-based developer Behaviour Interactive is one […]