Lumberyard: Amazon Releases Its Own Free Game Engine

Amazon have released its own game engine which is free to use. Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch.

It will be cross platform, allowing development of PC, PS4, Xbox One and mobile games.

Amazon hope this will bring the world of game hosting to there feet as mentioned in the Lumberyard FAQ’s section.

Lumberyard is free, including source. We make money when you use other AWS services. We built Lumberyard to make it faster and easier to build fantastic live, multiplayer, community-driven games — which naturally connect to the cloud to provide these features to players. However, there is no requirement to connect your game to the cloud. There are also no seat fees, subscription fees, or requirements to share revenue. You pay only for the infrastructure resources you choose to use. For full licensing details, see Licensing below.

Lumberyard is still currently in Beta and at the minute Amazon recommend that you use Windows 7, but it is rumoured that they are working on a OSX and Linux development platform.