Amazon announces Amazon
Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform game engine with Amazon Web Services and
Twitch integration baked in. They are also launching
GameLift, an associated service to
ease multiplayer game deployment. Lumberyard is currently available in beta for
PC and console developers for free, thought standard AWS fees will apply should
developers choose to use them. Here's more:
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS),
an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon Lumberyard, a free,
cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers to create the highest-quality
games, connect their games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and
engage fans on Twitch. Amazon Lumberyard helps developers build beautiful
worlds, make realistic characters, and create stunning real-time effects. With
Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even non-technical game developers
can add cloud-connected features to a game in minutes (such as a community news
feed, daily gifts, or server-side combat resolution) through a drag-and-drop
graphical user interface.
AWS is also announcing Amazon GameLift, a new service for deploying, operating,
and scaling session-based multiplayer games. With Amazon GameLift, Amazon
Lumberyard developers can quickly scale high-performance game servers up and
down to meet player demand, without any additional engineering effort or upfront
costs.
Amazon Lumberyard is free, and available today in beta for developers building
PC and console games, with mobile and virtual reality (VR) platforms coming
soon. Amazon GameLift has a small per-player fee, plus for both Amazon GameLift
and Amazon Lumberyard, developers pay standard AWS fees for AWS services used.
To learn more about Amazon Lumberyard, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard.
To learn more about Amazon GameLift, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift.