Goat Simulator, described by its creators as “a small, broken and stupid game that was made in a couple of weeks”, became an overnight hit, selling millions of copies worldwide. And now, lead designer Armin Ibrisagic is continuing to explore virality in games by launching Animal Super Squad with... ...
When developing games for scale, one of a developer’s key considerations is the database layer. As players defeat enemies, submit leaderboard scores, earn gold, and unlock achievements, events must be written to a database so information is securely stored and your player’s progress is saved. This write-heavy nature of... ...
The GameSparks development team is upgrading our Redis implementation to version 3.2 to take full advantage of the performance improvements and bug fixes this version brings over version 3.0. For full details of the features and fixes in 3.2, please see the Redis Release Notes for 3.2.9. Although we’ve conducted... ...
The GameSparks development team are upgrading the JavaScript engine used to run our powerful cloud code feature. Upgrading to Rhino 1.7.7.1 will bring around a number of bug fixes and sophisticated ECMAScript features, providing more power and flexibility in the way you write your cloud code. A full list... ...
As GameSparks continues to grow, so too does the volume of events data produced by the platform. This data is at the core of the powerful analytics service which allows customers to track various metrics for their games. With the increasing volume of data comes fresh challenges in how... ...
Oscar Clark and the rest of the independent UK studio Rocket Lolly Games are bringing together theatre and games industry professionals, friends, and fans alike, to celebrate the soft launch of their upcoming game “The Rocky Horror Show: Touch me!“. The launch party, located at Lucky Voice Soho, London,... ...
VR the final frontier, these are the voyages of the backend development platform, GameSparks… No, ok, no more Star Trek references… maybe. I may have arrived back from the Unity Vision Summit a little while ago, but i’ve only just finished processing everything I witnessed and I can now report that the future... ...
O Captain! My Captain! Steering the ship through a quagmire of looming deadlines, dwindling budgets and all sorts of other bumps and blocks, the role of a producer is one of many challenges. They must ensure development is running smoothly and communication is flowing between departments, but the biggest... ...
On the 6th of February 2017, we publicly announced that plans were well underway to bring GameSparks into a new and exciting era, releasing our newly enhanced platform in the form of a public beta. Today, 2 months after the beta release was made available, we are extremely proud... ...
Corona Labs, the 2D mobile development platform that is passionate about empowering developers to build the best games and apps possible, recently announced the addition and immediate availability of GameSparks to their extensive plugin suite. Like Corona, GameSparks dedicates itself to accelerating the development process, and is passionate about enabling triple-A... ...
