Category: Game Development

Join us on May 20, 2020 at 9 am PT / 5 pm UTC+1 for the AWS Game Tech: The Digital Download online event for the latest in game development. Register for free now » The games industry is increasingly investing in games that people play for longer and engage with more deeply. To get […]

As our latest group of customers prepared their games for launch, they told us the most tedious part of shipping is figuring out which assets need to be in the final build. Today, we’re excited to release Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.22, which introduces a fundamental change to the way Lumberyard handles game assets to make […]

  We all know that a database is an integral part of many games. But, as a game developer, you want to dedicate all your time and expertise to building great games, not engineering databases. I get it, I’d much rather worry about fixing collision volumes, getting my frame rate up or making the perfect […]

She’s arguably the most famous pop culture icon in the world. The much-loved Hello Kitty character, founded by the Japanese Sanrio company, is one of the highest grossing media franchises in the world, instantly recognizable by fans everywhere. This month is Hello Kitty’s 45th birthday, and Sanrio is celebrating by teaming with Sweden-based game studio, […]

The AWS Lofts are a place where like-minded developers can meet, share knowledge, attend educational sessions, and get in-person answers to AWS technical questions. At the recent AWS Pop Up Loft in Munich, we held a day dedicated to game tech. Here we sat down with TreasureHunt, DECA Games, and Ubisoft Berlin who gave us […]

We have an exciting re:Invent planned for the games industry this year! This conference will be our biggest yet, with 60,000+ attendees, more than 2,000 technical sessions and dedicated tracks for game developers, engineers, and professionals alike. Tickets sell out every year. If you haven’t already, register for re:Invent today!  Here’s our roundup to help you […]

Games? Databases? How do they go together? Aren’t databases what insurance companies use to keep their actuarial tables? Are you asking me to become an enterprise developer? Honestly, many of you already have a general idea of what databases are, though you might be wondering where they fit in to your game or game development […]

We invited Space Ape Games Lead DevOps Engineer Louis McCormack to write a guest blog. Learn how Space Ape Games secure the front and backend of a private React application using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda@Edge, and Amazon API Gateway. The frontend part is heavily inspired by this post. About the author Louis McCormack is […]

nWay is the San Francisco based developer and publisher behind competitive multiplayer games like Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, and ChronoBlade. And with over 50 million downloads for Power Rangers: Legacy Wars alone, nWay know a thing or two about real-time competitive games. “All of our games feature or are […]

Multiplayer battle royale games are getting big, and I don’t just mean in terms of sales! Pitting dozens to hundreds of players against each other to be the last one standing, these games are all the rage. In fact, according to a recent survey, over 40% of gamers in the US played a battle royale […]