To build a backend infrastructure with robust scalability, developers and their service providers must take several factors into consideration, like the performance of its hardware and software components, its database’s efficiency, and the system’s overall design. Optimizing these components, adding more resources and/or redesigning the system may be required to have a more efficient backend infrastructure.

Esports come with backend challenges in terms of technical infrastructure and software systems requirements to support online multiplayer, which include things like servers, databases, networking, and security protocols. This is especially sensible during esport tournaments and competitions. These are five key considerations.

Saving systems are an integral part of the videogame experience, as words are to books or images are to films, to the point where we take this system for granted. It would feel odd for any gamer when a game doesn’t include one. So deeply embedded have the saving systems become, that videogames have invented multiple ways saving can become part of the gaming experience itself.

When anyone mentions backend in videogames, most people tend to think about it only in terms of multiplayer games or downloadable extra content, as an important and obvious requirement for those kinds of game features. But let’s not forget the many other ways we can make use of backend development.

At its core, gamification means the process of applying game design and game mechanics to non-game contexts.

When drafting a video game’s visual proposal, the references are the starting point to guide concept artists in charge of bringing that aesthetical proposal to life. References are visual cues taken from many sources, like real places and people.

When a videogame enters the QA phase of its development, the team must make a delicate decision: on which mobile devices will the game be tested.

When a videogame first enters the QA phase, many things can happen. Every game is different and unique in terms of programming, and this is the first challenge any QA team faces: the unpredictable nature of testing.

It is important to differentiate remote work, freelancing work and outsourcing work. Some people make the mistake of considering them as almost equal, with the unintended consequence of failing either in human resources handling, or in project management, or in both.