No it's not. It's called Lumberyard. Says so right in your link (and on the page it links to).

Hmm, interesting. I shall check it out.

Probably won't use it or do anything with it, but it's always good to know what options are out there.

OOPS :o)

It's the end of a long day, I think I'll sleep at least 10 hours tonight as my brain doesn't seem to function anymore..... ^o^

Interesting, would've liked to have seen a few short games or at least some in development being mentioned.

It would take a while to see some "quality" games from third-party developers but I can easily imagine some people remaking "You don't know Jack" (kind of quizz game which I saw often on Twitch) with the Twitch integration system so the chat can directly participate in-game rather than making vote polls for example.

Obviously there wouldn't be any complete games, but some "Hey look at what you can do!" games would've been nice.
And I remember another engine I checked out years ago (might've been Unity when it was first released) that at least had a couple of "People are developing these games using this engine" links.
Things like that always make it a bit more interesting for me.
I think Unreal Engine 4 released some stuff before it was released even.

I think we've all been there ;-)

A light just went on in my brain. I thought the content creation / lock users in / get their prime subscriptions regularly $$$ strategy was why AMZ went into game dev.... their mention of twitch and reading about GameLift makes it clear they also see this as a way to drive business to their AWS servers. Smart cookies... smart...


Shit, it would be weird to see Amazon become the Steam competitor instead of the established players...

Edit: Yup, says black and white in the FAQ AWS is how they intend to monetize this. Smart. Did not see this coming but it's typical Amazon.

Actually, most of engines have a "done with XYZ" nowadays. I was quite surprised when I saw Five Night At Freddy' on the homepage of Multimedia Fusion as I would never have tought of using this engine this way :o)

After reading the details and tutorials it looks pretty interesting actually. Might have to download it and play around to see exactly what is possible.

I agree that some kind of "See what you can do!" demos or something would help.

I'm not sure whether it's got a built in model editor, it kind of sounds like it might from the tutorials but it might not be..

It's a game engine and It's okay,
it codes all night and compiles all day.

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I don't know how to put the gay jokes in.

I assume the remake would be called "You don't know Yard".

I see what you did there ;-)

It seems Amazon wants to become a big empire.