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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
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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

Beta software


As you likely know, the Lumberyard game engine is, at the time of this book's publication, in beta. What does that mean? It means a couple of things that are worth exploring.

First, developers (that's you!) get early access to amazing software. Other than the cool fact of being able to experiment with a new game engine, it can accelerate game projects. There are several downsides to this as well. Here are the primary drawbacks of using beta software:

  • Not all functions and features will be implemented. Depending on the engine's specific limitations, this can be a showstopper for your game project.

  • Some functions and features might be partially implemented, not function correctly, or be unreliable. If the features that have these characteristics are not ones you plan to use, then this is not an issue for you. This, of course, can be a tremendous problem. For example, let's say that the engine's gravity system is buggy. That would make testing your game very difficult, as you would...