AWS re:Invent 2016: Telltale Games migrates its story analytics from CouchDB to DynamoDB (DAT316)
Published on Dec 03, 2016
Every choice made in Telltale Games titles influences how your character develops and how the world responds to you. With millions of users making thousands of choices in a single episode, Telltale Games tracks this data and leverages it to build more relevant stories in real time as the season is developed. In this session, you’ll learn about Telltale Games’ migration from Apache CouchDB to Amazon DynamoDB, the challenges of adjusting capacity to handling spikes in database activity, and how it streamlined its analytics storage to provide new perspectives of player interaction to improve its games.