Amazon announces new free 3D engine for gaming

Amazon Web Services and Amazon.com announced Amazon Lumberyard, new free game engine designed to allow developers to make games, so simple and practical.

The new technology just announced by Amazon, and based on Amazon Web Services is based on CryEngine and is designed to allow developers to create in instant games for PC, consoles and mobile devices. Amazon Lumberyard is a graphics engine targeted specifically for developers looking forward to creating multiplayer games and social.

Amazon comes to integration at Twitch, the video sharing platform that it acquired for around a billion dollars. Amazon Lumberyard is free and available immediately for all those developers who want to create games for PC and consoles, and mobile platforms and VR will be supported soon.

Amazon also announced GameLift, a service based on Amazon’s cloud technology that allows developers to create the server for multiplayer games based on Lumberyard. In this case, Amazon has provided cost for developers based on the number of players on the servers.

Lumberyard allows you to create video games with advanced graphics being able to handle networking, physical tissue, character animation, particles, user interface, audio, weather effects, vehicles, artificial intelligence, shots, path finding, and more, all via a simple editor to learn and immediate.

Amazon then states that the new platform enables network functionality in minutes, with particular reference to some forms of the AWS as DynamoDB, Lambda and S3. All this by means of visual type Scripting interfaces, which can be also used for the integration of Twitch. More information about Lumberyard are found here, and here Amazon presents GameLift.