video_series_notes.md

Video Series Notes

This project is based on the Amazon's video series Building Games on AWS: Amazon GameLift & UE4. In this series Dylan, Chanh and Zack go step-by-step to build up this system from scratch.

Episode Notes

• Episode 1: Discuss the architecture of the system.¹
• Episode 2: Build the UE Game Client maps and UE server target.²³
• Episode 3: Integrate the GameLiftServer SDK into the server build.⁴
• Episode 4: Upload the server and start a fleet.⁵
• Episode 5: Build out the start session lambda to allocate servers from the fleet setup above. ⁶
• Episode 6: Setup authentication with Cognito, setup a login lambda, and use API Gateway to connect a REST API to this and the start session lambda. ⁷
• Episode 7: Add an OfflineGameMode and an OfflineMainMenu widget so the UE5 client can send and receive HTTP5 login and start session requests. ⁸
• Episode 8: Wrap up. Warnings about shutting down your fleets to avoid charges and future directions.[^aws_gamelift_episode_9]

Series Architecture diagram

Here is the diagam from Episode 1:

• It's AWS service-centric.
• It does not use all of the AWS or GameLift features. e.g. FlexMatch and FleetIQ are not included. A more fully featured and complicated architecture could look like this.

Series Bookmarks

Unreal Bookmarks:

• Setting maps and modes. Episode 2 at 14:34 Maps and Modes
• Choosing maps to package. Episode 2 at 15:20 Package Maps
• Create a shortcut to the server with -log. Episode 2 at 17:40 Shortcut
• Create an Main Menu Widget for the Offline Map. Episode 7 at 31:17 Offline Main Menu Widget Bookmark
• Create an install script to upload. Episode 4 at 9:52 Install script

AWS Bookmarks:

• Cognito auth flows. Episode 6 at 1:18 Auth Flows
• Cognito App client. Episode 6 at 2:55 Cognito App Client

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 1: Intro and Architecture Review ↩

2. Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation: Setting Up Dedicated Servers ↩

3. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 2: UE4 Dedicated Server ↩

4. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 3: Integrate GameLiftServer SDK with UE4 ↩

5. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 4: Testing and Uploading Server Build to GameLift ↩

6. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 5: StartGameLiftSession ↩

7. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 6: Amazon Cognito and API Gateway ↩

8. Amazon GameLift-UE4 Episode 7: API Requests from the Game Client ↩