Amazon's Lumberyard. Yet another CryEngine fork.

[TechBoyJK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdU1s1FGTDY

 

[futurefields]

Hmm. Lumberyard is a kinda dumb name for an engine. Makes me think of the word lumbering which is defined as "moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way" which is definitely not what you want from a game engine.

 

[Mutilator]

Would you have preferred for them to call it Amazon Fire Engine?

 

[TheVrolok]

Look at all the purty bits...

 

[Jodell88]

Lumberyard isn't open source.

 

[futurefields]

Q. What is Amazon Lumberyard?
Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source code provided.



Is that different than open source?


Why yes, yes it is.



Q. Is Lumberyard “open source”?
No. We make the source code available to enable you to fully customize your game, but your rights are limited by the Lumberyard Service Terms. For example, you may not publicly release the Lumberyard engine source code, or use it to release your own game engine.

 

[KeithP]

Hmm. Lumberyard is a kinda dumb name for an engine.

Maybe they were thinking that it looked so good it would give you wood...thus lumber.

-KeithP

 

[Subyman]

It reminds me of "framework", which is a collection of foundational code that makes programming easier. Kind of a weird name. I'm happy to see more options for gaming programmers. I worked with Unity a little bit and it was fun to plug away at, but could still use a lot of optimizations.

 

[Lonyo]

Hmm. Lumberyard is a kinda dumb name for an engine. Makes me think of the word lumbering which is defined as "moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way" which is definitely not what you want from a game engine.

Maybe it's called Lumberyard because you head to a lumber yard to buy lumber to build shit...
It has everything you need to start your build.

 

[futurefields]

they shoulda called it Fire Engine

totally missed opportunity by the marketing dept here

 

[Arachnotronic]

Amazon just throwing tons of stuff at the wall to see what sticks...

 

[thejunglegod]

Amazon just throwing tons of stuff at the wall to see what sticks...

Yeah, they seem to be everywhere these days. Didn't they recently acquire a gaming company?

 

[Dahak]

Yea, its odd that they would not call it fire something given all the fire branding, but also a semi funny aside, they have all this fire branding and name the engine lumberyard, are they not worried it will burn down? ....... (yes, yes, bad dad joke.... have not had coffee yet)

 

[Denithor]

Extremely bad dad-level joke, no donut for you!

 

[cbrunny]

Can someone please give me the "So What?" response?

 

[clamum]

I think it's cool they released this. Looks like killer graphics, though that's all I can see at this point.

Kind of sucks we won't see any games using this, if I understand the terms correctly. So it's just for people to mess around with? Still, like I said, I think it's cool that at least they did that.

 

[Stringjam]

I think it's cool they released this. Looks like killer graphics, though that's all I can see at this point.

Kind of sucks we won't see any games using this, if I understand the terms correctly. So it's just for people to mess around with? Still, like I said, I think it's cool that at least they did that.

People can release games, they just can't release forks of the engine. Thus why it is not open-source.

 

[TechBoyJK]

You can certainly make games with it, and I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon bakes this engine in with some of their hardware.

 

[clamum]

People can release games, they just can't release forks of the engine. Thus why it is not open-source.

Oh, ok, thanks for the clarification. Well that's really cool.