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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.

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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development
Dr. Edward Lavieri
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development
Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Welcome to the Lumberyard
Welcome to the Lumberyard
What is Lumberyard?
System requirements
Downloading and installing Lumberyard
Launching Lumberyard
Introducing the Lumberyard Editor
Summary
2
Planning Your Game in the Lumberyard
Planning Your Game in the Lumberyard
Beta software
Overview of sample content
Game design and game design documents
Planning your Lumberyard development process
Summary
3
Constructing an Immersive 3D Game World
Constructing an Immersive 3D Game World
Your first level
Creating terrain
Configuring the game world
Playing Mother Nature
Testing your environment using Game Mode
Summary
4
Creating 3D Characters
Creating 3D Characters
Dissecting 3D characters
Lumberyard's capabilities
Creating your own character
Summary
5
Animating Your Characters
Animating Your Characters
Basic animation concepts
Introducing Mannequin
Getting familiar with Mannequin's UI
Using Mannequin
Adding animations to characters
Putting it all together
Summary
6
Creating Gameplay
Creating Gameplay
Understanding gameplay
Getting started
Exploring the Camera_Sample game
Understanding the Flow Graph system and UI
Summary
7
Creating Multiplayer Gameplay
Creating Multiplayer Gameplay
Multiplayer gameplay considerations
Understanding AWS
Summary
8
Bringing Your Game to Life with Audio and Sound Effects
Bringing Your Game to Life with Audio and Sound Effects
Getting started with the Lumberyard Audio System
Using sample asset packages
Audio options
Audio Controls Editor
Summary
9
Employing Cloud Computing and Storage
Employing Cloud Computing and Storage
The need for cloud-based solutions
Cloud Canvas in action
Amazon S3 in action
Summary
10
Engaging With Users Using Twitch
Engaging With Users Using Twitch
Don't jerk, Twitch!
Dissecting Twitch
Implementing the Twitch ChatPlay system
Understanding Twitch JoinIn
Twitching with the Twitch API
Summary
11
Providing Your Game to the World
Providing Your Game to the World
Taking your game beyond the Lumberyard Editor
Generating game builds
Lumberyard's testing tools
Summary
12
Stretching Your Lumberyard Wings
Stretching Your Lumberyard Wings
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
The Waf build system
Lumberyard's cinematics system
System streaming
Memory handling
Amazon Web Services
Summary

Taking your game beyond the Lumberyard Editor

So far we have created game levels and explored existing sample game levels to learn how to use the Lumberyard Editor and its primary functionality. In each case, we played the game using Game Mode within the Editor. That is great for testing your games, but you cannot expect users to have a copy of the Lumberyard Editor. So, we need to publish the game in a format that permits others to play it.

We can use Lumberyard to create games for computers running the Windows operating system and the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles. At the time of this book's publication, support for deploying to mobile devices running iOS and Android was in preview, and therefore not covered in this chapter. In addition, support for computers running the Mac and Linux will be forthcoming.

Next, we will look at the external requirements for publishing to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles. Then, we will conclude this section with an overview of publishing...

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