Mark Mandel 🔜 Gamescom/Dev

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Staff Developer Advocate for Games at @Discord.com. Founder on Agones and Quilkin OSS projects for multiplayer games. Was at Google Cloud for a long time. Occasional YT & Twitch. he/him.

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CNCF - Kubernetes: Add Agones to Headlamp - Game Server Management UI (2026 Term 2) Active Terms 2026 Term 2: Jun-Aug Agones is a Kubernetes-native platform for hosting, running, and scaling dedicated game servers. This project builds a Headlamp plugin that adds an **Agones** section to Headlamp, surfacing Agones CRDs so operators can **view and manage game servers, fleets, and allocations** from the Headlamp UI. The plugin follows Headlamp UX patterns with list and detail views, links between related resources, and visibility into lifecycle and allocation state.
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For Ubisoft, delivering seamless multiplayer experiences to a global player base is an infrastructure challenge of massive scale. It requires managing thousands of game servers with a global footprint and absolute resilience. Join us to see how Ubisoft solves this by leveraging Agones, the open-source game server scaling engine on Kubernetes. We will dive into the real-world use case and production data behind Ubisoft's fleets, demonstrating why they bet on cloud-native tech. Along the way, we’ll trace Agones' evolution from its origins at Google to its current home in the CNCF—showing how a community-driven standard is now powering the biggest names in the industry.
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Monster Hunter Wilds Supporting 1 million concurrent users
Social SDK: Going Live with Communications Features
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Powering Player Connections
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Presentation title page: Introducing the Discord Social SDK
Moderation with the Discord Social SDK This guide will walk you through integrating and managing content moderation for your game when using the Discord Social SDK. Overview Effective moderation is essential for creating healthy social experiences. This guide will help you: Better understand your moderation responsibilities Implement client-side moderation for text and audio content alongside the Discord Social SDK
Discord is listening to feedback and releasing settings for players to tailor their social experience to their needs. These settings will continue to change and evolve with the SDK and Discord client. Discord Social SDK settings are global, meaning they will impact all games that use the Discord Social SDK. These settings live in the Discord client.
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Marketing is more important than ever as discoverability is at an all-time low. ✓ Digital stores have democratized publishing and opened doors, but it's also flooded stores with shovelware and now AI-generated content making high-quality games harder to find. ✓ Traditional marketing channels are losing influence and fragmented creator audiences make meaningful exposure more difficult and expensive. ✓ This has left a trust gap, leaving players hesitant to try unfamiliar games out of fear of wasting time or money. ✓ Players now rely on massive showcases, word-of-mouth, and content creators for discovery but scaling reach remains a challenge. ✓ Platforms can help to improve discoverability by enforcing quality standards or offering curated browsing modes to spotlight vetted titles.
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❯ hyprland --version Hyprland 0.46.2 built from branch at commit 0bd541f2fd902dbfa04c3ea2ccf679395e316887 (version: bump to 0.46.2). Date: Thu Dec 19 11:26:47 2024 Tag: v0.46.2, commits: 5566 built against: aquamarine 0.7.1 hyprlang 0.6.0 hyprutils 0.3.3 hyprcursor 0.1.11 hyprgraphics 0.1.1 flags set: debug
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