Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch.
By starting game projects with Lumberyard, you can spend more of your time creating great gameplay and building communities of fans, and less time on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building a game engine and managing server infrastructure.
12 comments
BuzzDuraband
9 Feb 16#1
I thought this might be worth a look if you fancy tinkering around for a while...
Lumberyard has CryEngine DNA. Amazon licensed the software from Crytek and went to town on it, stitching in new networking code and assets pipelines. This might go some way to explaining how Crytek avoided complete implosion, although I do wonder if it'll come to regret the decision. How do you compete with free?
Make no mistake, this is the free sort of free: no download fee, no royalties liable. Depending on how developers take to it, Lumberyard could cause huge upset in the engine business, topping the deals offered by both Unity and Unreal Engine. Even its source code is free to tinker with. The caveat is that unless developers are running their own server hardware, they have to use Amazon as provider.
Lumberyard is in beta and free to download now if you have the skills and want to tinker.
JimBobJr
9 Feb 161#2
CryEngine (~) for free? Damn thats a great freebie
DrAnonyman to JimBobJr
9 Feb 16#3
Pretty much CryEngine, and completely free for offline games. Not bad at all.
MacPhisto
9 Feb 162#4
Awesome freebie, wish I had the skills to use it. My only dabbling with game creation was way, way, way back in the day with the Graphic Adventure Creator for the ZX Spectrum :wink:
b0d
9 Feb 16#5
Nice. Doesn't seem to be very "cross-platform" yet, but when the Linux version lands I'll be trying this out.
amour3k
9 Feb 16#6
This looks VERY COOL. :-)
aj_nu
10 Feb 16#7
Any know any basic tutorials around to get started?
Actually 57.4 is probably the key reasons its freew. Anything you develop has to run on Amazon services in the future, plus if they decide to charge in the future you either pay up or leave what you've developed
57.4 Operating Restrictions. Without our prior written consent, (a) the Lumberyard Materials (including any permitted modifications and derivatives) may only be run on computer equipment owned and operated by you or your End Users, or on AWS Services, and may not be run on any Alternate Web Service and (b) your Lumberyard Project may not read data from or write data to any Alternate Web Service.
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By starting game projects with Lumberyard, you can spend more of your time creating great gameplay and building communities of fans, and less time on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building a game engine and managing server infrastructure.
12 comments
Lumberyard has CryEngine DNA. Amazon licensed the software from Crytek and went to town on it, stitching in new networking code and assets pipelines. This might go some way to explaining how Crytek avoided complete implosion, although I do wonder if it'll come to regret the decision. How do you compete with free?
Make no mistake, this is the free sort of free: no download fee, no royalties liable. Depending on how developers take to it, Lumberyard could cause huge upset in the engine business, topping the deals offered by both Unity and Unreal Engine. Even its source code is free to tinker with. The caveat is that unless developers are running their own server hardware, they have to use Amazon as provider.
Lumberyard is in beta and free to download now if you have the skills and want to tinker.
57.4 Operating Restrictions. Without our prior written consent, (a) the Lumberyard Materials (including any permitted modifications and derivatives) may only be run on computer equipment owned and operated by you or your End Users, or on AWS Services, and may not be run on any Alternate Web Service and (b) your Lumberyard Project may not read data from or write data to any Alternate Web Service.