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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

System requirements


Amazon recommends a system with the following specifications for developing games with Lumberyard:

  • PC running a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Windows 10

  • At least 8 GB RAM

  • A minimum of 60 GB hard disk storage

  • A 3 GHz or greater quad-core processor

  • A DirectX 11 (DX11) compatible video card with at least 2 GB of video RAM (VRAM)

As mentioned above, currently, there is no support for running Lumberyard on a Mac OS or Linux computer.

The game engine is a very large and complex software suite. You should take the system requirements seriously and, if at all possible, exceed the minimum requirements.