Amazon GameLift Servers

Have you checked out AWS’s Video Game hosting service GameLift?

As I continue with development of Tech Debt, I decided to take a look at one of AWS’s services that normally doesn’t catch my eye.

Allow me to introduce Amazon GameLift Servers.

GameLift Servers(Not to be confused with GameLift Stream) helps game developers host their online co-op games at scale.

They offer SDKs for both Unity and Unreal Engine(Sorry if you are a Gadot developer).

They have a fairly impressive list of customers using it, including Apex Legends.

Will I be using this for Tech Debt?

No, multiplayer isn’t in the cards for Tech Debt, but I do have ideas for other games I might make in the future.

There is a genre of game that is popular right now called “Friend Slop”, which means a game you can play with your friends but typically has sloppy physics resulting in difficult but comical shenanigans.

A good example of this would be Overcooked.

A “friend slop” game would be a perfect use case for something like GameLift.

Random question: What is your favorite video game?