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Kinda, Amazon purchased the code and forked it as Lumberyard. Then they realised their own studios didn't want to use it and their game-dev projects failed, so
by debugnik 3y ago
Kinda, Amazon purchased the code and forked it as Lumberyard. Then they realised their own studios didn't want to use it and their game-dev projects failed, so they donated the engine to the Linux Foundation.
But the engine didn't even support Linux yet, so they spawned a new Open 3D Foundation for it, and renamed the engine Open 3D. I haven't heard of anyone using it seriously yet.
- Dracophoenix 3y agoActually, before Lumberyard was released, Crytek had already open-sourced Cryengine and gave it away under a pay-what-you-want model until the engine's 5.5 release.
- debugnik 3y agoSource-available is not open-source; I know people care increasingly less but having access to the source is not enough for it to be "open".