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Amazon Releases Game Engine ‘Lumberyard’, Allows Content Creation For PC, Console, Mobile & VR
There’s a new game engine in town and its developer might surprise you. Amazon Web Services, the monolithic cloud-computing platform, has announced its own game engine, called Lumberyard, and is offering it for free to PC and console developers, and soon, mobile and VR developers. Based on Crytek’s popular CryEngine, Lumberyard is free to download in beta (with a ton of free assets) and promises no seat or subscription fees and no requirements to share revenue. Should developers choose to use other AWS services, that will call for standard AWS fees.
Also announced is Amazon GameLift, the Web service giant’s managed service for “deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer games” which “reduces the time required to create multiplayer back-ends from thousands of hours to just minutes”. GameLift is available at launch in the AWS US East and US West regions, with additional regions coming soon. It will cost $1.50 per 1,000 daily active users, plus the standard AWS fees for AWS services they consume.
“Amazon has been a great partner and we are deeply excited about both Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift,” said Josh Atkins, Vice President of Creative Development, 2K Games. “The integration of a fantastic game engine with amazing cloud services presents a wonderful opportunity for both independent developers and established publishers.”
We know the power of CryEngine and it will be interesting to see how game developers leverage Lumberyard to create the games we will be playing in the near future. By leveraging the “world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform”, developers should be able to speed up the timeline from designing, to building, to release.