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Create stunning 3D games in a short amount of time using Amazon Lumberyard, a free and exciting game development platform. This book is a ground-up, out-of-the-box tutorial on 3D game development and programming with Lua and Amazon Lumberyard with little or no game development experience required.
Beginning Game Development with Amazon Lumberyard walks you through the user interface of the Amazon Lumberyard engine; teaches you how to develop detailed terrain using heightmaps, megatextures, weather, and vegetation; and takes you through exporting the game for distribution. The book will show you how to create a player as well as enemies while not getting bogged down with third-party tools for animation or model creation. You will also work with simple physics, colliders, meshes, weather generation, Lua scripting, user interface development, and much more.
By the end of the book, you will be able to create many different types of video games using the Amazon Lumberyard engine and even have a completed project ready to release or put in your portfolio.
What You Will Learn
- Discover the mechanics and terminology of game development
- Familiarize yourself with the Amazon Lumberyard game engine in detail
- Modify game scripts using the Lua language
- Discover how to optimally structure game layers
Who This Book is For
Developers, programmers, and would-be game designers who have long wanted to dip their toes into the world of game development but have found other game engines and platforms to have too high a barrier to entry.
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To my amazing wife, family, and friends for supporting me along this journey.
is a software engineer living in Texas. Jaken holds a bachelor of science in computer science with a focus on software engineering from Sam Houston State University. Outside of university, Jaken worked as a software engineering contractor at NASA. He has worked with many different and new technologies and has an ever-expanding wealth of information on all topics related to programming. In game development, he has academic experience as well as hands-on hobbyist experience having created many mobile-based games, a side-scrolling platformer, and a racing game.
is a computer science graduate from Sam Houston State University with interests in full stack architecture, cloud platform technologies, and game development. She currently works as an associate software engineer, so providing insight for those new to software development is one of her passions. She has attended hackathons, career fairs, and even the renowned Grace Hopper convention to spread knowledge. Assisting in the authoring of this book was just another great opportunity to learn about a new engine while passing along the knowledge discovered.
You are about to embark on an amazing journey. A journey in which you will be creating your very first video game in Amazon Lumberyard . This will be an extremely rewarding and likely humbling experience. Through my many failed attempts at creating video games when I first began working on them, I often found myself having so much information thrown at me that it was seemingly impossible to figure out where to start, what pieces of the information were actually important to my specific project, and where to look for advice and questions along the way.
Lucky for you, however, this book will walk you through everything, from the beginning all the way to the game over screen. Before we can begin, we need to go through the setup process.
Amazon Lumberyard requires a few components outside of those that come packaged with it. One of the great things about Amazon Lumberyard is that the required components are completely free, so you do not need to worry about any additional costs in your game development endeavors. You can develop a video game on a AAA engine completely and 100% for free.
AAA, pronounced Triple-A, is an informal classification used for video games typically to denote higher budgets and higher quality of development. Think of AAA as a way of saying Blockbuster, as you would with movies. While in this book we likely wont build a AAA game, Amazon Lumberyard easily supports developing such games.
There are a few optional components, however, that do have a price tag attached to them, but for the purposes of this book, we will ensure that everything is free of charge along the way.
The first component we will install and set up is going to be Visual Studio, an IDE made by Microsoft.
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment , which is just a software application that aids programmers (like you) in creating their own software. These integrated development environments typically consist of tools like a source-code editor (like a notepad), debugging system, and a build automation suite, to name a few.
Installing Visual Studio will allow us to select certain C++ development packages that Amazon Lumberyard will require for compiling the game code. Dont worry, we are not going to be writing any C++ in this project; the engine just requires C++ compilers and libraries to be installed.
On your web browser of choice, navigate to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com . Note that there will be many options for Visual Studio. Microsoft typically releases a new edition every other year, so at the time of your reading this, there may be a new edition out. For this book, we will be using Visual Studio 2017 although any future editions will still suffice when the 2017 edition becomes antiquated. Do not get too hung up on editions of external software; if Amazon Lumberyard supports it, just take the latest version.
Be careful not to download Visual Studio Code. While both are made by Microsoft, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are not the same application. Visual Studio Code is a more lightweight text editor that has some debugging features, and Visual Studio is a fully fledged IDE packed with features for developing, testing, and deploying projects built in many different frameworks and languages. Visual Studio Code will not come bundled with the necessary development components that Visual Studio provides.
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