Introduction to Amazon Lumberyard and its use cases

In this recipe, we will learn about Amazon Lumberyard. We will also learn about the use cases of Amazon Lumberyard.

Recipe Objective - Introduction to Amazon Lumberyard and its use cases?

The Amazon Lumberyard is a widely used service and is defined as a defunct freeware cross-platform game engine developed by Amazon, based on CryEngine and licenced from Crytek in 2015. Amazon and the Linux Foundation announced in July 2021 that parts of the engine would be used to create the Open 3D Engine, a new open source game engine that would replace it. The new engine will be managed by a new Open 3D Foundation, which will be run by the Linux Foundation and will be licenced under the open source Apache 2.0 licence. The new engine is said to be based on Lumberyard, but many parts have been rewritten, so it is considered a new engine. The Lumberyard engine includes Amazon Web Services integration, which allows developers to build or host their games on Amazon's servers, as well as Twitch support. The engine also includes Twitch ChatPlay, which allows Twitch stream viewers to influence the game via the associated chat, a feature inspired by the Twitch Plays Pokémon phenomenon. End users have access to the source code with the following restrictions: The Lumberyard engine source code may not be publicly released or used to create their game engine. Amazon Lumberyard debuted on February 9, 2016, alongside GameLift, a fee-based managed service for deploying and hosting multiplayer games, to make it easier for developers to create games with "large and vibrant communities of fans.

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Benefits of Amazon Lumberyard

  • The Amazon Lumberyard V2 O3DE is designed to be modular and flexible. To give the games and simulations the capabilities they need without the features they don't, swap out subsystems or easily add integrations and thus it builds bigger. With O3DE's AWS Integration Gem, users can add multiplayer scaling, analytics, cloud storage, and real-time data sources to their game directly from the engine and thus it builds connected. O3DE is open-source and completely free. There are no seat fees, subscription fees, or revenue-sharing obligations. Users have complete control over their engine technology thanks to the Apache 2.0 licence and thus it builds free.

System Requirements

  • Any Operating System(Mac, Windows, Linux)

This recipe explains Amazon Lumberyard and the Use cases of Amazon Lumberyard.

Use cases of Amazon Lumberyard

    • It integrates with Amazon Gameloft

The Amazon Lumberyard provides Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift working together to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated instances for multiplayer games.

    • It connects with Twitch

The Amazon Lumberyard integrates with Twitch to allow users to interact with other players and view real-time statistics while playing.

    • It provides features like Cloud Canvas

Amazon Lumberyard provides Cloud Canvas which is a set of Amazon Lumberyard-exclusive AWS tools that allows developers to integrate cloud-connected features into their games. The Cloud Gems Framework for common prepackaged game features, tools to manage AWS resources, authentication methods, and flow graph nodes, which open up communication from the game to services like Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Cognito, are all included in Cloud Canvas.

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