It's interesting to see what's happening in the cloud-backed gaming space. We're working on similar ideas at http://improbable.io http://improbable.io but with

It's interesting to see what's happening in the cloud-backed gaming space. We're working on similar ideas at http://improbable.io http://improbable.io but with more emphasis on persistent and unsharded worlds. I have the feeling that Lumberyard/Gamelift does "scaling" in the sense of "adding more shards", not "adding more compute power to the single unsharded world".