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Last-Minute Game Release Nightmares Revealed

4 Game Devs Tell All

Now that the holiday crunch is DONE, it’s time to sit down and share some game version release horror stories and cautionary tales.

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4 game devs from Sony Interactive Entertainment, Archetype Entertainment, Arrogant Pixel, and Proletariat tell the tales of the not-so-amazing race to get to the gold master – faster.

Apart from crunch-time nightmares, we will discuss:

DevOps practices for game studios
Shifting from large-scale Blue/Green releases to release-when-ready
Managing releases with traffic throttling

And more.

Speakers

Speaker name

Eric Krauss

Position

Sr. Engineering Manager

Company

Sony Interactive Entertainment
Speaker name

Leonard Quam

Position

Technical Operations Director

Company

Archetype Entertainment
Speaker name

Jay Shin

Position

Co-Founder

Company

Arrogant Pixel
Speaker name

Avida Michaud

Position

Director of Engineering

Company

Director of Engineering

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