GAM303: Migrating Battleborn and the Spark Platform to Amazon GameLift for Multiplayer Game Servers

Learn how Gearbox integrated Amazon GameLift into "Spark", the cloud-ready infrastructure that powers all of their games. In this session, Gearbox talks about the mental shifts they had to make when moving their games online, as well as the unexpected challenges. Gearbox also dives deep into their experience of integrating the Amazon GameLift Server SDK, running multiple processes with different parameters, asynchronous build deployment, global fleet management, load balancing, and scaling to meet unexpected player demand. You'll learn Amazon GameLift best practices that can help simplify game session management, reduce engineering overhead, and optimize for player experience.