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Linux Foundation's New Open 3D Engine Requires Windows and Visual Studio

• thxg 5y ago
  In essence, this seems to be Amazon's AWS Lumberyard engine going from source-available (but proprietary) to Apache 2.0
  • rpmisms 5y ago
    Which is positive, even if non-free software is required to use it for the time being.
• slimsag 5y ago
  I'm really happy to have another open-source 3D game engine out there, that's good for everyone. Also, you should know Amazon's Lumberyard was basically just a copy of CryEngine that they purchased and began to modify. They must have spent a lot of money to be able to get full rights to that and now be able to make it OSS. My bet, though? Amazon is axing the entire Amazon Game Studios, or at least radically changing how they operate - and part of that is hoping they can dump development of the engine on the OSS community and get momentum behind it. One need only look at the titles[0] Amazon Game Studios has been developing to find they haven't been doing too well, given they started and cancelled the following titles after several years of development put into each one: * Breakaway * Crucible * Lord of the Rings MMO * Intensity * Nova And plenty more.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Games
• swalsh 5y ago
  On the home page, I see Huawei's logo. Does anyone know to what extent they have been involved.... and has anyone ran a security audit on this codebase?