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Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460868

Pages 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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3D Game Development

Author (1):

Dr. Edward Lavieri

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Learning AWS Lumberyard Game Development

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About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Welcome to the Lumberyard

2. Planning Your Game in the Lumberyard

3. Constructing an Immersive 3D Game World

4. Creating 3D Characters

5. Animating Your Characters

6. Creating Gameplay

7. Creating Multiplayer Gameplay

8. Bringing Your Game to Life with Audio and Sound Effects

9. Employing Cloud Computing and Storage

10. Engaging With Users Using Twitch

11. Providing Your Game to the World

12. Stretching Your Lumberyard Wings

Getting started

In order to learn how to create a gameplay using Lumberyard, we will start by opening a complete game. Amazon has a few samples that can be downloaded from the Lumberyard downloads page as well as some that are part of the game engine download. The following steps will configure the Lumberyard Editor to use the SamplesProject already installed with Lumberyard:

Launch the Lumberyard Project Configurator. If you do not have the shortcut icon on your desktop, you will be able to find the app in the dev\Bin64 folder of your Lumberyard install.
In the Project Configurator, select the SamplesProject icon.

In the Project Configurator, click the Set as default button. This will make our newly selected game the default. This ensures we have ready access to the game's assets from within Lumberyard.
The Asset Processor will immediately start processing the game's assets. This can take a few minutes.

Note
You do not need to close the Asset Processor window. The processor will run...

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Authors (1)

Dr. Edward Lavieri

Dr. Edward Lavieri is a veteran software engineer and developer with a strong academic background. He earned a Doctorate of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, an MS in Management Information Systems (Bowie State University), an MS in Education (Capella University), and an MS in Operations Management (University of Arkansas). He has been creating and teaching computer science courses since 2002. Edward retired from the U.S. Navy as a Command Master Chief after 25 years of active service. He is the founder and creative director of three19, a software design and development studio. Edward has authored more than a dozen technology books, including several on Java.

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