Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Game Development in the Cloud

LESSONS LEARNED

@sarahnovotny / CIO

LESSONS LEARNED

and best practices for game developers in the cloud.

@sarahnovotny

INTRODUCTION TO we do video game transmedia

TRANSMEDIAtransmedia is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

WHY THE CLOUDS?or more specifically, why ?

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BUSINESS CONSTRAINTS-> ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRAINTS

(no really, they’re helpful)

FREE TO PLAY

anyone can playnot everyone will paycan’t be viewed as P2W

GAME SERVER

ephemeralautomatedinstrumentedcheap

BUZZWORD COMPLIANT

cloudon demand resourcesAPI driven$0 capital investment

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

robots and automation FTW!

Availability Zone #1

www.playhawken.com

Security Group

Root VolumeData Volume

Elastic Load Balancer

Webserver Instances

Web AppServer

Security Group

Proxy Instances

Dynamo Backend

Elastic IP

3rd PartyServices

Availability Zone #1

HAWKEN game play

Game Server Instances

Dynamo Backend

Availability Zone #2S3 Bucket

Game Client Distribution

Game ServiceInstances

THINK IN TERMS OF FLEETSone server is useful. a fleet of them is a product.

SCALING UP IS EASY

SCALING DOWN IS HARD

BUILD AWARENESS

application

automation

LOCATION

APIS OFFER ERROR CODES

200 OK201 Created202 Accepted204 No Content304 Not Modified400 Bad Request403 Forbidden

CHECK THEM

PLAN FOR THE

ASYNCHRONICITYdon’t assume the data you’ve just sent is where you’ll retrieve it

CULTURE

legacy thinkingeducationeducationeducationengineering leadershippatience

CLOUDDEVhere be dragons

COMPLEXITY KILLS

not too hotnot too coldjust right

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