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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

Multiplayer gameplay considerations


Multiplayer games are among the most difficult to develop. This is due to the complexities involved in networking and game servers, and frankly the number of things that can go wrong. You likely have played a lot of multiplayer games. Some of the common things that can go wrong include:

  • Latency/lag

  • Crashes/disconnects

  • Slow loading

  • Delayed spawning

  • Players having different game versions

  • Maps not available

So, you are familiar with some or all of these problems. There are also design considerations that must be designed and developed. Here are a few:

  • Server-side programming (game servers)

  • Rooms and lobbies

  • Battle system balance

  • Team and cooperative modes

  • Creating battle arenas

  • AI and Non-player Characters (NPC) behaviors

You'll create your game in Lumberyard and not worry too much about server-side programming, because Amazon GameLift will take care of this for you. GameLift works in concert with multiplayer games developed with Lumberyard.

The need for game servers

One...