This is definitely interesting. I did not expect Amazon to come out with their own game engine but it’s free and apparently on par with Cryengine. Star Citizen, the most funded game in history (and most controversial), recently accounted they would be moving to Lumberyard.
I know it’s been out for less than a year but it would be awesome if we could get a course on this.
Maybe how we can draw parallels to Unity and Unreal or live streamed walkthroughs of you guys exploring the engine and its capabilities.
From what I understand of it is, that Lumberyard is a fork of the CryEngine. Amazon paid 50 million euros for the right to fork the engine and created Lumberyard from a fork in december 2015. Which is about the same time Roberts Space Industry (aka Star Citizen) build their engine around the CryEngine. Hence they were able to port their alterations to Lumberyard without to much hassle. All in all not a bad deal I think given that Crytek appears to be in financial troubles at the moment.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was from scratch and not a fork of Cryengine.
I guess the real power behind this is Amazon Web Services and Twitch integration. Nothing would get your game more exposure than having someone stream it.
It is fairly new and I’m sure there are many parallels. I saw something that looked like the Unity Blueprint editor. So I’m hoping there are enough so we can just easily jump into this.
I’d hope Amazon would take that into consideration for existing developers on Unity/Unreal and create enough similarity to make adoption easier.