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Learn Expect By Writing And Automating A Simple Game

Code a “guess the number” game in Expect. Then, learn the real power of Expect with a separate script to automate playing the game. While trying to automate my workflow, I hit upon a configuration utility that defied meaningful automation. It was a Java process that didn’t support a silent installer, or support stdin, and had an inconsistent set of prompts. Ansible’s expect module was inadequate for this task. But I found that the expect command was just the tool for the job. My journey to learn Expect meant learning a bit of Tcl. Now that I have the background to create simple programs, I can better…

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Unity And Google Deepen Collaboration To Accelerate Game Developer Success

Renewed and expanded Google Cloud Partnership brings Unity Gaming Services to Google Cloud Marketplace, giving developers more access to foundational multiplayer tools Unity LevelPlay partners with Google to give creators better access to quality ads SAN FRANCISCO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, and Google today announced that the companies are expanding their partnership and deepening collaboration across their ecosystems to help studios accelerate the growth and development of their live games. Together, Unity and Google are making it easier for all developers to create multiplayer experiences by offering two…

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SuperGaming And Google Cloud Collaborate To Empower Game Developers With A SuperPlatform

SuperGaming, developer of MaskGun, PAC-MAN, and upcoming battle royale Indus will bring its best-in-class SuperPlatform to game developers via Google Cloud Pune, India, Nov. 24, 2022 ‒ Leading Indian game developer SuperGaming has chosen Google Cloud to bring its best-in-class live-ops engine, SuperPlatform, to game developers the world over. This will empower game developers to make better games with battle-tested cloud infrastructure that currently powers all of SuperGaming’s efforts. This includes PAC-MAN, which has more than one billion downloads across all storefronts, and its multiplayer shooter MaskGun, which has more than 65 million players. SuperPlatform will run on Google Cloud and will enable game…

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Why Should Game Companies Choose Cloud Spanner To Power Their Games

Organizations globally use Cloud Spanner, because of its unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% of availability. In particular, game companies, like Embark Studios use Spanner to help scale and solve the many challenges of a distributed system, such as concurrency and load balancing. According to a recent PwC report, the global gaming industry is one of the sectors that has experienced significant growth in the last couple of years, and the industry (excluding esports) is poised to be worth $321 billion by the year 2026. In the past three years alone, the industry has grown by half a…

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Machine Learning Experiments In Gaming And Why It Matters

Introduction Machine learning (ML) is essential to video game development. Predicting specific in-game actions and identifying and reaching your most valuable players helps to drive better outcomes. To this end, we need to keep track of all experiments that are happening behind the scenes. Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of a new feature called Vertex AI Experiments that can now help gaming companies do just that – keep track of their ML experiments to uncover insights and best practices across their ML Engineering and Data Science teams.In this blog post, we will focus on a popular video game…

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Alibaba Cloud Partners With Korea Indie Game Society To Support Game Developer

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba group, announced that it has partnered with the Korea Indie Game Society, a corporation that supports the growth of the domestic game industry, to boost digital transformation of small and medium-sized game companies in Korea and accelerate their entry into the global market. Under the terms of the partnership, Alibaba Cloud will provide free cloud-related training and professional consultation to Korea’s leading independent game companies. Eligible Korean businesses will benefit from easy access to advanced cloud computing technologies and ecosystem support from Alibaba Cloud. Leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s leading technologies and…

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From NASA To Google Cloud, Ivan Ramirez Helps Top Gaming Companies Reach New Levels

Editor’s note: Ivan Ramirez, Gaming Team Lead, works in one of Google Cloud’s most dynamic, and least understood businesses, supporting some of the world’s biggest online gaming companies. He’s in a world of extreme potential, heart-stopping challenges, big teamwork, and managing scarce resources for the maximum outcome. And that’s before we get to the gaming. I assume most people in gaming are lifelong gamers. True? Not in my case, but I did start out playing the world’s best video game. I graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and went to NASA. I trained to…

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How A Top Gaming Company Transformed Its Approach To Security With Splunk And Google Cloud

Since Aristocrat’s founding in 1953, technology has constantly transformed gaming and the digital demands on our gaming business are a far cry from challenges we faced when we started. As we continue to expand globally, security and compliance are top priorities. Managing IT security for several gaming subsidiaries and our core business became more complex as we entered into new markets and scaled up our number of users. We needed a centralized platform that could give us full visibility into all of our systems and efficient monitoring capabilities to keep data and applications secure. We also needed the ability to…

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Service Mesh At Scale: How Xbox Cloud Gaming Secures 22k Pods With Linkerd

By Abereham Wodajie + Chris Voss Guest post by Abereham Wodajie and Chris Voss, Software Development Engineers at Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft Xbox Cloud Gaming is Microsoft’s game streaming service with a catalog of 100’s of games available in 26 markets around the world. So far, more than 10 million people around the world have streamed games through Xbox Cloud Gaming. In this blog post and upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon talk, we will share how we leveraged service meshes and their ability to secure in-transit communication to scale our services to millions of players around the world, while reducing costs and…

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