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What's "Amazon integration"? And why is Amazon developing a game engine?
by shak77 9y ago
What's "Amazon integration"?
And why is Amazon developing a game engine?
- irb 9y agoIntegration with AWS products. And I assume Amazon is developing a game engine that integrates well with AWS products in order to sell more AWS products.
- sgift 9y agoTo boost AWS and Twitch: https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/ https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
- bhouston 9y agoDoes anyone but Star Citizen use it Amazon Lumberyard? Unity and UE4 really are the current leaders in game engine technology, CryEngine, while great, has suffered in the last four years or so and isn't a significant competitor.
- sgift 9y agoIf you look in the link there are six games listed. One is Star Citizen, two are (afair) by Amazon game studios, so that would leave three other games. No idea if these are just the show cases or all of them. So, not the greatest uptake, but Amazon was always willing to give things time to mature. We'll see if they can take market share of UE4/Unity.
- Tepix 9y agoIt's a fairly new engine and the competition is fierce. Give it some time.
- zionic 9y agoAlso, Star Citizen's most recent patch (3.0) includes volumetric fog tech developed by Amazon.
- tnolet 9y agoBecause AWS is already deeply embedded in the games industry. Where do you think all of those multiplayer servers run for big AAA titles? This is probably just a move up the vertical for them.
- coldcode 9y agoLumberyard is very popular in Asia and is the main market for it.
- wccrawford 9y agoEasy access to Amazon services from the engine. Because of the Amazon services integration potential. That's how they make money.
- m0llusk 9y agoBig networked multiplayer games have people distributing lots of data to each other: device controls, ship maneuvers, text and voice comms, other such. Servers and bandwidth become huge issues and AWS is the most advanced and scalable platform for all that right now.