If someone would develop with it, that’d be great.
Amazon Lumberyard is a well known off-shoot of the Crytek engine, most notable for its use by Chris Roberts with the perpetually upcoming MMO Star Citizen. Otherwise there haven’t exactly been many games developed on the engine outside of the completely obscure fighter game Coffance, The Grand Tour Game, and Amazon’s upcoming MMO New World. There’s also Amazon’s previous failed launches including Crucible and Breakaway.
In an effort to get someone, anyone, to develop on the engine, Amazon announced this week that it will contribute the engine to open source and change the name to Open 3D Engine. More than 20 developers are participating in the project to forward the engine including Adobe, Huawei, Niantic, and more.
“We’re proud to offer the 3D development community an unencumbered, AAA-capable, real-time 3D engine with one of the broadest arrays of integrated 3D authoring tools in the industry including a new photorealistic renderer, built for both modern gaming hardware and distributed cloud rendering,” said Bill Vass, VP of Engineering at AWS. “We believe that creating a first-class, community-driven, open-source option will revolutionize real-time 3D development, as Linux did for operating systems and Apache did for the web.”
Source: PR Newswire
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