Episode 12: Interview with Kalle Hiitola about using Azure for mobile game development

Join us as we talk with Kalle Hiitola from Next Games to discuss the recent launch of their new mobile game The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. We'll hear about how the team leveraged Unity and Azure web services.

[01:00] - About Next Games
[01:50] - Development overview of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land 
[03:00] - Decision to leverage Azure and Signal R
[05:18] - Challenges with building for scale
[07:42] - Testing Strategy
[09:16] - Anti-Cheat implementation
[13:33] - Tracking game activity aka World Domination Map  
[16:38] - Using BizSpark 
[18:25] - Lessons Learned
[25:10] - Game Trailer

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