Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Game Development in the Cloud

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LESSONS LEARNED

@sarahnovotny / CIO

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LESSONS LEARNED

and best practices for game developers in the cloud.

@sarahnovotny

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INTRODUCTION TO we do video game transmedia

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

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WHY THE CLOUDS?or more specifically, why ?

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flickr @nishanthjois

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BUSINESS CONSTRAINTS-> ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRAINTS

(no really, they’re helpful)

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FREE TO PLAY

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

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GAME SERVER

ephemeralautomatedinstrumentedcheap

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BUZZWORD COMPLIANT

cloudon demand resourcesAPI driven$0 capital investment

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WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

robots and automation FTW!

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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

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Availability Zone #1

HAWKEN game play

Game Server Instances

Dynamo Backend

Availability Zone #2S3 Bucket

Game Client Distribution

Game ServiceInstances

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

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SCALING UP IS EASY

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SCALING DOWN IS HARD

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BUILD AWARENESS

application

automation

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LOCATION

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APIS OFFER ERROR CODES

200 OK201 Created202 Accepted204 No Content304 Not Modified400 Bad Request403 Forbidden

CHECK THEM

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PLAN FOR THE

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

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CULTURE

legacy thinkingeducationeducationeducationengineering leadershippatience

BIZ

DEV

CLOUDDEVhere be dragons

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COMPLEXITY KILLS

not too hotnot too coldjust right

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