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"They're still ironing out the kinks," said one developer
Read More »Staff blame Amazon’s game engine, Lumberyard, for layoffs and cancellations
Amazon Games Studio’s Breakaway put on hold
Feedback from the public alpha test will lead to the team taking time to "iterate and evolve" core gameplay
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.6 introduces Twitch MetaStream
Promises deep Twitch integration with a host of overlays, graphs and features for streamers
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin studio
Studio located with new Twitch team, looking to hire local game development talent
Read More »Engineers & Enablers: Keeping your game engine competitive
Competition is fierce in the engine space, but that hasn’t deterred more companies from offering their own suite of development tools
Read More »Lumberyard Beta 1.5 previews particle editor, component entity and asset builder
New features now in early access, with 210 fixes and improvements made
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard adds HDR support, plus native support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Other additions include a new depth of field technique, height mapped ambient occlusion and iOS performance improved by 15 per cent
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard 1.3 will add VR support
Engine will support Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and enable devs to introduce support for more devices
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard adds Substance integration
Engine says support for Allegorithmic’s texture tool came as request of dev feedback
Read More »Lumberyard adds GPU-simulated particles, GridMate Gem and mobile process management
1.2 release includes changes to particle editor, FBX importer, networking component and GMEM rendering path, plus support for new Android devices
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