Category: Artificial Intelligence

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, and AWS for Games is gearing up to welcome attendees from around the globe at the annual conference for developers in Las Vegas November 27 – December 1. This year, in addition to announcements unveiled during re:Invent keynotes, attendees can check out an exciting array of panel discussions, presentations, […]

Riot Games, the developer behind League of Legends (LoL), VALORANT, and Wild Rift, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will introduce ‘Win Probability’ within the upcoming 2023 League of Legends World Championship broadcast. Analyzing key data points throughout gameplay, the ‘Win Probability’ stat is designed to educate and inform fans as to how teams […]

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘Diggy’s Adventure,’ ‘Trainstation 2,’ ‘Puzzle Adventure,’ and ‘Port City.’ Founded by four game enthusiasts in 2007, the Slovakia-based company specializes in creating mobile free-to-play community-based experiences, determining development priorities based on player feedback. Hampered by increasingly frequent […]

Game analytics can be a powerful tool to help studios throughout the development cycle. Insights driven from game data can help you to create more engaging, personalized experiences for players and more efficiently monetize games. it can also help with fraud investigations, as well as performance monitoring and error reporting. Anomaly detection is commonly used […]

Doppio is a voice game developer based in the sunny part of Europe that has created voice game hits such as The Vortex, The 3% Challenge, and the iconic PAC-MANTM WAKA WAKA. Jeferson Valadares is a game veteran bringing his experience from renowned studios such as BioWare, Playfish, Digital Chocolate, and BANDAI NAMCO. Christopher Barnes […]

Authored by Molly Sheets and edited by Kyle Somers Today’s games need specialized content to increase retention, drive monetization, and promote feature adoption. No game has a singular player persona: Two players can have vastly different engagement metrics and styles of play over their lifetime with a portfolio. Indie developers and AAA developers alike are […]

As video games rise in popularity and more games move toward free-to-play models, there’s more opportunity for fraudulent behavior among players. Fraud is problematic for studios because it devalues in-game currency that’s bought with real money and the digital goods that can be purchased with it. Fraud also causes players to lose trust in the […]

Finding related textures in a texture library can be a black hole of wasted time. Using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon’s machine learning API, you can tag your textures and do searches to find them in seconds… In game development, we commonly have a large asset library of textures or scenes that become our “painter’s palette”. This […]

It’s an old philosophical question. If you were to replace a ship piece by piece over the course of a year, is it still the same ship? What about a game engine? We believe 2018 will mark a new beginning for Lumberyard. With our overhaul of legacy tech near complete (10 out of 12 major […]

Imagine you’re designing a story-rich game. Over sixty thousand lines of dialogue. Hundreds of characters—all with distinctive voices, quirks, maybe even different languages. You’re soon faced with a choice. Hire a cast of voice actors to enact the story, creating an immersive experience for your players (though at considerable cost), or use on-screen text—saving you […]