Amazon Lumberyard - Free, cross-platform, 3D game engine

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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.

Create the Highest-Quality Games
With a full-featured editor, native code performance, stunning visuals, and hundreds of other features, Amazon Lumberyard gives professional developers the tools and technology they need to build world-class games.

Build Live, Online Features in Minutes
With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, your designers and engineers with little to no backend experience can add cloud-connected features to a game in as little as minutes (such as a community news feed, daily gifts, or server-side combat resolution) through drag-and-drop visual scripting.

Deploy and Scale Multiplayer Games to Meet Player Demand
Using Amazon GameLift, a new AWS service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer games, you can quickly scale high-performance game servers up and down to meet player demand, without any additional engineering effort or upfront costs.

Free – with Full Source
Amazon Lumberyard is free, including full source code, so you can deeply customize Lumberyard for your team and your vision for your project today, and for future projects in years to come. There are no seat fees, subscription fees, or requirements to share revenue. You only pay for the AWS services you choose to use.

Source: Amazon

[BeoTeK]

oh snap... was just reading the same article. Quite impressive though. Amazon have come a long way over the years.

[FarligOpptreden]

Yup. I read somewhere that their cloud business is larger than their retail one... Seems like they're gonna be the new Google.

[BeoTeK]

Yup. I read somewhere that their cloud business is larger than their retail one... Seems like they're gonna be the new Google.

Hasn't that been the case for a while? And their business model out performs Google anyway.

[nedGAR]

Has anyone tried this yet? Once I upgrade my pc I wanna start game dev, was considering unity but the price of this is overwhelmingly attractive

[brendanvb]

I'm also keen to give it a go but things like this usually have a steep learning curve that require a lot of patience.

[Avantar]

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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...

Source: Amazon

So cool - I will sure waste a few hours on this. Love creating stuff until it becomes work and no fun anymore -