Game Development, Support and Socializing & Amazon Lumberyard Demo
Details
In addition to our normal meetup, we're happy to welcome Aman and Michael from Amazon to talk about Amazon's Lumberyard game engine (https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/). They'll give a Lumberyard demo and show how using Slices can save you time and effort.
Lumberyard is a free, AAA game engine that uses the vast compute and storage of Amazon Web Services to create experiences that deliver orders of magnitude greater scale, fidelity, and player agency… and uses Twitch to help you engage with massive communities of fans.
•AAA engine and IDE – performance, modularity, iteration to highest quality
•Deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch
•Multiplatform – PC, console, mobile, VR
•100% Free – No royalties, no subscriptions
•Source code included
•Amazon support
The Lumberyard demo will take place around 3pm after our normal introductions.
- A high level overview of Lumberyard: 3:00pm – 3:30pm
What it is, why should the audience care.
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An intro to Lumberyard workflows: 3:30pm – 4:00pm
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Workflow Demonstration: 4:00pm – 4:30pm
Including our recently released, full example game showing workflows (with source code).
- Speedtree ™ Demonstration: 4:30pm – 4:40pm
A value-add foliage creation tool now included with Lumberyard for free
- Summary Q&A: 4:40pm – 5:00pm
Join us for a casual afternoon working on games, and talking about games.
• Work on your game
• Meet friends
• Find new teammates for your project
• Get help
• Show off your projects
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