Amazon Lumberyard available for game developers

Amazon web services the infrastructure as a cloud service has taken interesting step to make the job of game developers a piece of cake. As a beta step towards that Amazon Lumberyard the free, cross-platform, 3D game engine is available for free download It is interesting to note that Amazon lumberyard is 100% free including source code. The beta version is available for free download Currently PC version is available for download with virtual reality, mobile platforms in pipeline coming soon. With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even newbie game developers can add cloud-connected features to a game in minutes. Cloud-connected features include community news feed, daily gifts,server-side combat resolution etc. This is accomplished through a drag-and-drop graphical user interface. Amazon GameLift is a new service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer games, reducing the time required to create multiplayer backend from thousands of hours to just minutes is an exciting announcement from Amazon web services Amazon gamelift is compeltely integrated with Amazon Web Services cloud platform and can be easily deployed via AWS Dashboard console. As with other services that are deployed, that can be monitored and reported in AWS gamelift operational issues can be reported real-time. However, AWS gamelift is a paid service. Amazon GameLift costs $1.50 per 1,000 Daily Active Users plus the standard AWS fees for any other AWS services they consume To know more about AWS Lumberyard visit: https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/ To learn about AWS gamelift visit: http://aws.amazon.com/gamelift