Amazon Lumberyard
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Amazon Lumberyard is a now-superseded freeware cross-platform game engine developed by Amazon and based on CryEngine (initially released in 2002), which was licensed from Crytek in 2015.[4][5][6] In July 2021, Amazon and the Linux Foundation announced that parts of the engine would be used to create a new open source game engine called Open 3D Engine, which would replace it. A new Open 3D Foundation, run by the Linux Foundation, will manage the new engine, which will be licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license.[7] [8] The new engine is reportedly partially based on Lumberyard but with many parts rewritten, and is considered a new engine.[9][10][8]
Developer(s) | Amazon Game Tech |
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Preview release | |
Repository | github |
Written in | C++[2] and Lua[3] |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux |
Platform | |
Predecessor | CryEngine |
Successor | Open 3D Engine |
License | Proprietary (source-available) |
Website | aws |