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Green Light: Unleashing Squid Game on Amazon GameLift (Presented by Amazon Web Services)
Richard Musser (Platform Director, Netflix)
Paris Butterfield (Senior Server Engineer , Netflix)
Location: Room 2011, West Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 19
Time: 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass - Get your pass now!
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: Intermediate
Squid Game on Netflix launched over three years ago and quickly became a viral hit streaming series. With the release of Season 2, Netflix created a companion game that takes place in the universe and allows players to play in games inspired by the show. Join the team behind Netflix's Squid Game Unleashed as they lead you through building the backend for a fast-paced action mobile game. Learn the architecture behind the game and key learnings to successfully launch the game alongside the show.
Takeaway
In this talk, we cover hard-won lessons in scalability, deployment, and testing. Additionally, we show how we used the AWS GameLift platform to ship a game in a short time frame.
