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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
Book Image

Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

Amazon’s Lumberyard is a 3D cross-platform game development engine for building high-quality AAA games. It makes the process of creating multi-player games and adding realistic characters, stunning terrains, and special effects much faster and more efficient. This book will show you how to use Lumberyard to create a multiplayer 3D game with cloud computing, storage, and Twitch integration for user engagement. We will start with an introduction to Lumberyard and provide an overview of its capabilities and integration options. Once the game engine is installed, we’ll guide you through the creation of an immersive game world with characters. You’ll add animations and audio to bring the game to life. We’ll explore external interactions to support live multiplayer game play, data storage, user engagement, and the back end. By the end of the book, you will be efficient in building cross-platform games using Lumberyard.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 11.  Providing Your Game to the World

In the previous chapter, we explored Twitch, Twitch ChatPlay, Twitch JoinIn, and the Twitch API. We learned how the use of Twitch ChatPlay allows game viewers to directly interact with games we create in Lumberyard. We demonstrated this feature in the previous chapter, giving you hands-on experience at creating that type of interaction.

The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the steps necessary to publish your game once it is completed, that is, make your game available for others to play. Specifically, we will look at game builds, and how to test them, debug them, and release them.

After reading this chapter, you will:

  • Learn which distribution platforms Lumberyard supports

  • Grasp the requirements for publishing to gaming consoles

  • Understand the complexities involved in generating game builds

  • Be able to identify the three types of game build supported by Lumberyard

  • Learn the components and requirements of each game build type

  • Understand...