Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
by abrookewood on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:51AM
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IT IS NOT OPEN SOURCE - though you do get read access to the source code. You're right that you aren't forced to use their services, but you are also NOT permitted to use other cloud providers. So, it's either AWS or your own hardware. Still, this does seem rather amazing. One thing you left out is that there are no revenue sharing requirements either. You're not even required to use this for game development - you can use it to build movies, training simulations etc.
Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
by kayoone on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:32AM
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a) Arguably Epic Games or even Unity did this earlier
b) it is not open source
c) it is not open source
d) they are forcing you to use AWS for multiplayer servers and that kind of stuff, which makes sense because otherwise they would not make money
Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
by serge2k on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:01AM
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Not sure what you mean by a?
It's not open source.
It's not open source.
They are forcing you to either use their services or your own hardware if you want to use any sort of backend.
a) Commoditized game engines
b) Released an open source game engine that can build AAA games
c) Are going to bootstrap an open source community around the game engine while supporting it
d) Are not forcing the use of any of their services to develop games with this engine
As someone who has been working in VR the last year or two I've been saying for a while that it's going to be important that we see a rise of open source in game engine technology the way we've seen it with the web before we really have arrived at having VR be the next platform. This has felt more like a dream than a real possibility: I didn't in my wildest dreams think we'd see an open source modern game engine anytime in the next 5 years since I assumed it'd have to be developed from scratch. And here we are having Amazon put this out, which might very well overturn the entire industry overnight.