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Amazon launches free 'triple-A' Lumberyard engine

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Lumberyard has CryEngine DNA. Amazon licensed the software from Crytek and went to town on it, stitching in new networking code and assets pipelines. This might go some way to explaining how Crytek avoided complete implosion, although I do wonder if it'll come to regret the decision. How do you compete with free?
Make no mistake, this is the free sort of free: no download fee, no royalties liable. Depending on how developers take to it, Lumberyard could cause huge upset in the engine business, topping the deals offered by both Unity and Unreal Engine. Even its source code is free to tinker with. The caveat is that developers have to use Amazon as their server infrastructure provider through Amazon Web Services.
Lumberyard is in beta and free to download now if you have the skills and want to tinker.
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Well I've often wondered what the games landscape would be, if there were one all-powerful, open-source engine that everybody used. Along with a ton of off-the-shelf middleware, and massive shared libraries of art assets. Instead of all these companies making their own engines, and having their own artists, etc.

This is close, but I'm not sure if anyone other than Amazon can modify or contribute to it?
 
It wasn't free but just look at the Xbox 360 catalogue. Unreal Engine features very heavily and was pretty much a requirement for a while on job applications.
 
This might go some way to explaining how Crytek avoided complete implosion, although I do wonder if it'll come to regret the decision. How do you compete with free?
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This seems to suggest that it was Amazon who bailed out Crytek in the middle of 2014 when reports surfaced of unpaid wages and job cuts etc and in return they have full rights to use the Crytek engine as they wish.

This is certainly mixes things up and maybe this time around the Unreal engine may have some actual competition which can only be good.
 
this very well could be a game changer; I wonder how the licensing with Crytech and Amazon works; figure as cryengine gets updated so will lumber - I have a feeling Amazon will keep feeding Crytech to keep them up and running or in the end buy them to feed lumber.

I might snag it to play around; intergrated network solutions and twitch.......that is genius and free - UT engine will have serious issues; I mean they already are having issues with crytech and unity
 
Tempted to have a look at it - my current back burner project doesn't really translate well into a stock game engine however :S (i.e. some of the data structures need the engine built around highly specific concepts for performance).
 
meldarthx said:
this very well could be a game changer; I wonder how the licensing with Crytech and Amazon works; figure as cryengine gets updated so will lumber - I have a feeling Amazon will keep feeding Crytech to keep them up and running or in the end buy them to feed lumber.

I might snag it to play around; intergrated network solutions and twitch.......that is genius and free - UT engine will have serious issues; I mean they already are having issues with crytech and unity
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I could imagine a deal seeing Crytech getting since of the money amazon makes from Lumber's use of online services.
 
Whelp needs quite a bit of disc space to do anything useful with it :S

Requirements say 200GB but was down more than 300GB by the time it was fully installed with assets and extra plugins, etc.
 
I didn't even know Amazon was in the game-engine-development business. Not sure how lucrative a business providing servers is, but even if they don't turn a profit with this thing, I'm happy they at least helped keep Crytek in business by licensing Cryengine.
 
While its free it looks like after a year you'd have to pay (albeit a fairly low price) for any useful amount of backend hosting - looks like they are trying to use it somewhat to drive uptake of the aws platform.
 
lol the terms and condition update is midly amusing.

NBC News said:
Amazon updated the terms of service for AWS accordingly, adding a section that says the Lumberyard platform can not be used for life-saving or safety-critical equipment like spacecraft or military arms.

But ... there's a zombie clause too.

"However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization," section 57.10 of the terms document says.

Read More: Amazon Prime Now Has 54 Million U.S. Members, Report Says

Representatives from Amazon were not immediately available to comment on Lumberyard's potential uses against the undead.
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Its basically CryEngine with Wwise, 3DSMax, Visual Studio..... ecte extentions already stitched in, which is a good thing because CryEngine from CryTek does not play nice with 3rd Party integration.

Level Compiling and Encryption for publishing also appears to be built in, another good thing as it normally relies on manual directory scripting, which is problematic and a pain in the ____
I have often argued with CryTek about the virtues Unreal Engines automatic approach to this being a far better solution.

One of my concerns with this was that its not an upto-date revision of CryEngine, some of the most important features are in the last 3 builds, Volumetric Lighting, Voxel Global Illumination, Environment Ray Tracing..... but it has all that.

CryEngine is the most sophisticated engine on the market, tho really not user friendly at all, especially for something that is aimed at the general public, Indy devs.
It was an in-house engine released to the public out of necessity, and you can tell.

Amazon have indeed taken those issue by the scuff-of-the neck and addressed them, something CryTek should have done a long time ago.

It also has several pre-built world levels installed to get you started.

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CryEninge 3.8.6

 
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