Case Study: Notorious Studios achieves near real-time game analytics with AWS Glue

Notorious Studios Builds a Scalable Game Analytics Pipeline for Player Research on AWS

Notorious Studios, an indie video game startup, needed a faster way to capture and analyze playtest data for its game, *Legacy: Steel & Sorcery*. Working with AWS Glue and the broader AWS stack, the team wanted to replace a manual process that took up to 3 days and gain near real-time insights from both qualitative and quantitative player data, while keeping the solution simple to deploy and maintain.

AWS helped Notorious Studios build a scalable, modular game analytics pipeline using AWS CDK, AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, and Amazon QuickSight. The new pipeline was customized in 2 days and deployed in under 10 minutes, enabling the studio to discover player trends, balance gameplay, and answer design questions with real data from past playtests.

Notorious Studios

David Perez

Principal Game Play Engineer