Gaming in the Cloud

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Gaming in the CloudIan Massingham, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS

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AWS Gaming Customers

2 31 4Mobile Long-TailFree to Play In-App Purchases

6 75 8Cross-Platform User Retention =

RevenueGlobal Reach New, Enlarged

Audience

Trends In Gaming

• Social Login

• Friends

• Leaderboards

• Push Messages

• Content Updates

• Analytics

Essential Online Features

Traditional: Rigid AWS: Elastic

Servers

Demand

Capacity

Excess Capacity Wasted $$

Demand

Unmet Demand Upset Players

Missed Revenue

One Other Essential Feature: Scaling

AWS SDK for .NET on Unity

➡ Supported Services

➡ Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS IAM

➡ Amazon Kinesis Streams, AWS Lambda, Amazon Mobile Analytics

➡ Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service

➡ Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service

➡ Supports Unity versions > 4.6

➡ Currently supported on Android, iOS & on Standalone platforms.

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-net/blob/master/Unity.README.md

AWS SDK for C++ (Developer Preview)

➡ Complete, up-to-date AWS service coverage

➡ Improved CMake support

➡ Multi-threading stability improvements to Curl interface on Unix and Linux

➡ Visual Studio 2015 support

➡ OSX El Capitan support

➡ Online API documentation

https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/

aws.amazon.com/lumberyard

➡ IDE that allows live Visual Editing

➡ Provides “Gems” for modular development

➡ Designers for 2D & UI interfaces

➡ Entity & Component framework

➡ Visual scripting via Flow Graph

Amazon Lumberyard - Editor

Complex outdoor environments with lighting

High definition rendering in real-time for characters

Meet “Rin” – Rendered real-time in Lumberyard

Amazon GameLift

aws.amazon.com/gamelift

Amazon GameLift

Build Catalog

UPLOAD BINARY

Game Version A

2

3Version A Instance 1

Version A Instance 2

FLEET A

FLEET B

Version B Instance 1

Version B Instance 2

1

Amazon GameLift – Deploy Fleets

Amazon GameLift – Deploy Builds

Amazon GameLift – Real-time Insights

Amazon Lumberyard - Cloud Canvas

➡ Tools integrated into Lumberyard to

directly access AWS resources

➡ Storage, Database, Compute,

Identity, Queuing, Notification

➡ Integrated into the FlowGraph of the

IDE for easy visual scripting

➡ Lumberyard handles all backend

communication with AWS

Cloud Canvas

➡ AWS Primitives for Cloud Canvas

➡ DynamoDB, S3, SNS,

Cognito, SQS, Lambda

➡ Callable from Script or FlowGraph

➡ Integrated with AWS C++ SDK to

create your own additional

interaction nodes

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon S3

Amazon Lambda

Amazon Cognito

Amazon SNS

Amazon SQS

Cloud Canvas

Twitch – Build your fanbase!

Twitch - Create a Fan Base!

• Leading Social Video Platform for Gamers

• Helps to build strong communities for your game

• Leverage entertaining players to spread adoption

• Is this game worth getting? • How do I get better at this game?

100M unique viewers / month 106 minutes / person / day 2M peak concurrent viewers

Design for Viewer Interaction

Broadcaster

AudienceGame

2

31

Twitch Integration

Twitch ChatPlayAllows viewers to type chat commands to influence game

Twitch JoinInBroadcasters can invite viewers into their game

aws.amazon.com/gamedev/

aws.amazon.com/blogs/gamedev/

Substance Integration

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Ian Massingham, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS

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