For the fourth year in a row, in partnership with Diversi (a non-profit organisation which works for greater diversity within gaming), we offered female students a complimentary All Access pass to attend the 2019 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco and also an internship in one of our game studios…

Don’t Repeat Job-self! By Francisco Javier Garcia Orduna & David Campos Vall At King, we use Jenkins extensively to build our games and execute our tests. All of King’s development departments use this tool as there is a high-throughput of screenings, which generate large volumes of diverse data. …

By The Cloud Foundations Team at King King’s journey to Google Cloud (GCP) began last year with the aim of taking advantage of the advanced tools and management services it offers. …

By Pol Vilaseca Mainar and Pietro Guardascione First published on Gamasutra 7th Jan 2019. Hero was an action RPG that was developed by King and soft launched during 2016 in different countries in Asia. …

By Alex Nodet — Artificial Intelligence Engineer King, like many other game companies, follows a free-to-play business model. This trend has increased within the gaming industry in recent years. Its efficiency is driven by frequent releases of new in-game content. As of October 2018, Candy Crush Saga offers more than…

By Adam Carroll Introduction It’s time for a festive post on the King Tech Blog! A few weeks ago I released the first full version of Santulator, a fun, Open Source program to help you to run Secret Santa draws. I’m from a big family and I initially wrote this with…

By James Glass, Xavier Gibert & Zuzanna Kruszczynska On each Hack Day at King, we round-up tech gurus from far and wide with a creative range of ideas on how to improve the technologies and internal tools that we use. Our recent Barcelona Hack Day event gave King employees a…

By Kenneth MacArthur and Nicholas Brenwald King’s recent attendance at Google Cloud Next ’18 London offered a stage (or several!) where we could share our knowledge and experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) thus far, and our ideas for leveraging GCP in the future. King took part in a…

By Jeff Holbrook The General Data Protection Regulation was approved in 2016, to take effect on May 25th, 2018. Among other things, this regulation strengthens the rights of individuals over their personal data, allowing customers to request the personal information that a company keeps on them (a Subject Access Request…