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Overview
What Lumberyard does
Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform AAA game engine based on CryEngine. It integrates with AWS services and offers visual scripting with Lua.
What people use it for
- Building 3D games with an AWS-integrated engine
- Cloud-connected multiplayer game backends
- Twitch integration for streamed gameplay features
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Lumberyard.
- aws.amazon.com/lumberyard now redirects to the AWS homepage; Amazon Lumberyard is no longer offered as an AWS product
- The engine's successor is the Open 3D Engine, governed by the Open 3D Foundation rather than AWS, so migration means moving to a differently governed project
- No Lumberyard-branded documentation, download or support commitment remains at the original AWS product URL
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What people choose instead of Lumberyard
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- LumberyardvsUnity
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- LumberyardvsAseprite
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- LumberyardvsGodot Engine
Godot Engine: Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine
Pricing
What Lumberyard costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Full engine source
- AWS integration
- Lua scripting
- CryEngine foundation
- Community support
Capabilities
Features
CryEngine foundation
CryEngine foundation capability
Lua scripting
Lua scripting capability
Flowgraph editor
Flowgraph editor capability
Advanced graphics
Advanced graphics capability
Physics simulation
Physics simulation capability
AWS GameLift integration
AWS GameLift integration capability
Multiplayer support
Multiplayer support capability
VR capabilities
VR capabilities capability
AWS services
Integration with AWS services
GameLift
Integration with GameLift
DynamoDB
Integration with DynamoDB
Cognito
Integration with Cognito
Behind it
Who makes Lumberyard
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
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Where to go from Lumberyard
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- All Game Development softwareThe full category
- Best Game Development softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
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- Lumberyard vs CryEngine
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