Amazon Lumberyard - a big contender to UE?

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In summary: Amazon Lumberyard is a free ‘AAA’ cross platform game engine.

You can download the beta version from here.

You can see their first videos here.

Based on their FAQ page, Amazon Lumberyard is apparently based on CryEngine (so they cancel the plan to buy CryTek? or else?), Double Helix, and deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch. Now, Lumberyard is free as in free to download, royalty free, and free source code. However, even though the engine source code is free to download, Lumberyard is not an open source engine. Carefully read the licensing to know its legal boundaries and limitations.

IMO, this is an interesting move from Amazon.

Should Epic be worried about this?

PS. Although the installer file (ZIP) is only 10GB, but it needs at least 200GB of hard drive space! o.O’

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Sure, they should be worried… BUT, this is a good thing because they will continue to improve the game engine and not get complacent.

teak

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Personally there is nothing to worry about.

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Couldn’t agree more. Competition is good, and us the end-users, will get lots of benefit. Hopefully :slight_smile:

Currently Lumberyard is still in beta. Although based on CryEngine, but its quite different. Lumberyard is more like a much improved CryEngine (but a Lumberyard user has found that in the Lumberyard source code it has a serious bug in Linux version.

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I would say Lumberyard has got more to worry about from Epic and Unity than the other way around.

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There’s already a thread on this: Lumberyard Engine - General Discussion - Unreal Engine Forums