Amazon announces "Amazon Lumberyard" CryEngine base game engine with free game playing function

High-performance, high-performance game engine "CryEngine", AWS of cloud server service,Game distribution service · TwitchGame engine made on the basis of "Amazon LumberyardAmazon was officially announced. LumberyardCompletely free game engineAnd no royalty or subscription fee is required.

Amazon Lumberyard
http://aws.amazon.com/jp/lumberyard/

Introducing Amazon Lumberyard - YouTube


In the introduction video of Lumberyard, the development company of the game company first appeared.


Gunfire GamesDavid Adams is a game creator who made "Darksiders ~ Time of Referee ~" etc during the Vigil Games era.


In developing new multiplayer games, Amazon gave us Lumberyard and it seems that we could build a prototype in just three months.






Next, Amazon's stories that made that Lumberyard.


Although Amazon's face of a major mail-order site is well-known, in addition to image distribution business, cloud service, etc., Amazon Game Studios also performs game development.




This time, officially announced "Amazon Lumberyard". Amazon's cloud computing service "AWS"The game comment service "Twitch" acquired in 2014And so on.





Character tool "Geppetto"Animation tool"Mannequin, Visual script tool "Cloud Canvas", real-time game editor and so on, so many people can start game development at the same time soon. By the way, the service required to create an online game as an optional service is provided by "Amazon GameLift". GameLift uses AWS, and 1000 users are active users per day, and a usage fee of 1.5 dollars (about 170 yen) is necessary.


In this movie, it may be helpful because it actually shows the state of development at Lumberyard, samples developed etc.





Based on Crytek's game engine · CryEngine,Acquired in 2014The game development company · Double Helix Games technology etc. are included and its power is certain.







By integrating Twitch, which is a game live platform, the "Twitch ChatPlay" function that allows people delivering gameplay to interact with people who are watching the distribution in real time will be installed.




It is the beta version that is distributed at this time. Although the use of Lumberyard itself is free, it is the mechanism that Amazon's revenue becomes when using the AWS service with "Amazon GameLift" as mentioned above. For this reason, making games that use other companies' cloud services is prohibited, but it seems that there is no problem using a game selling service like Steam.









Lumberyard is multi-platform compatible, it already supports PC / PS4 / Xbox One, and it is planned to correspond soon to iOS · Android · Mac · Linux and VR.