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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

Cloud Canvas in action


Let's use a game example to help us understand how to enable and use Cloud Canvas for our games. Here are the steps:

  1. Launch the Project Configurator.

  2. Click the SamplesProject icon:

  3. Next, you'll want to ensure Cloud Canvas is enabled, so click the Enable Gems link.

  4. Scroll down the page until you find the Cloud Canvas (AWS) row. Ensure the checkbox is checked:

  5. Click the Back to Projects link in the top-left corner.

  6. Click the Set as Default button in the top-right corner. This will result in the Asset Processor converting all the appropriate objects for use in your game.

  7. Once the Asset Processor has completed its operation, launch the Lumberyard Editor.

  8. Click the Open level button, and navigate to and select the Dont_Die level. Then, click the Open button:

    Note

    If you were to try and play the game, you would receive a missing authentication token error. That's okay; we'll take care of that next.

  9. Log in to your AWS Console to create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) user...