Category: Amazon Lumberyard

GDC 2021 was a terrific showcase of how AWS Game Tech is helping developers of all sizes build faster, run smarter, and grow amazing gaming experience for players. And in case you missed it, you can catch up on all of our sessions, including our first ever developer keynote, on-demand now!  GDC routinely fills San […]

This guest post is authored by Jesse Janzer, Director of Technology for Tafi, a leading provider of 3D avatar and character solutions. Tafi has over a decade of experience bringing digital avatar content to life. In addition, as the owner of Daz 3D, Tafi operates a digital marketplace with a global community of creators and […]

Guest post authored by Carbonated Studios. (Editor’s note: This is the first in a blog series from our Lumberyard customers. We really appreciate the time they took to share their experiences in working with Lumberyard!) WHO ARE WE We’re Carbonated! We’re a smaller studio based in El Segundo, California, and comprised of vets from Electronic […]

Authored by Doug Erickson, Sr. Documentation Manager for AWS Game Tech. It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? We missed you, too! We have been very busy on major changes to Lumberyard, which we will announce as soon as we can, but it’s taking a lot of preparation and energy. So, for the interim, we are releasing […]

Hi, my name is Joshua Rainbolt, and I’m a Lead Senior User Experience Designer for AWS Game Tech. I am one of several stakeholders who have been lucky enough to be involved with the evolution of Amazon Lumberyard’s prefab system over the past several years. We called them “slices” at the time, because our team […]

Authored by Chanelle Mosquera and Doug Erickson of the Amazon Lumberyard team. For over 5 years, Amazon Lumberyard‘s graphics engine has served our customers in fine stead. As we looked to our future, we recognized that its fixed approach to rendering and its established feature set would limit our customers’ ability to innovate and take advantage […]

Hello! I‘m Mike Cronin, a programmer writer with the Lumberyard documentation team. I’ve been a long time game developer, going all the way back to the days when arcades were still a thing. I’ve worked as an artist, animator, technical director, and as an engineer (of sorts). One aspect I like best about working with […]

Authored by Yuyi Hsu I lead the User Experience (UX) team for Amazon Lumberyard. My team works closely with the Lumberyard Engineering and Product Management teams to research and design the user experience of the tools that game developers and content creators use to build their games. The Observation I come from a product design […]

Hello Lumbernauts! As an eventful year comes to an eventful end, our plucky team of developers is busy making much requested improvements to the Amazon Lumberyard engine with an aim to tighten up usability with optimized workflows throughout the user interface, support for new and improved physics features, and even more customization options for developers […]

Authored by Doug Erickson and the Amazon Lumberyard Physics Team When gamers think of gaming “physics,” they might think of realistic behaviors — simulated gravity, weight, wind, and motion. Or perhaps they think of vehicle dynamics, or ragdoll behaviors, or projectile velocities and weapon recoils. Overall, gamers think of game physics in terms of gameplay […]