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The name has to be a reference to Snow Crash .
WARNING: "Snow Crash" is a comedy! Over the years people mentioned the book in comments about metaverses and VR. But nobody said it was a comedy. I was buying it with the expectation of getting some serious science fiction about a topic I'm interested in. Instead it starts off with some pizza delivery science fiction parody.
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Really? It seems like they keep refactoring all the time. Feels like Duke Nukem whenever, which switched engines a couple of times too during development.
Lumberyard is a forked version of CryEngine, which Star Citzen was already using (fairly heavily modified for 64 bit precision) so the move to Lumberyard wasn't as big as it seems. They do however refactor other systems like items and inventory quite often which seems to be slowing down development although the new versions do seem like improvements.
I think they are at last at a scope now that makes sense for a full release. They had to build a hundreds strong, multi-location production team before even getting up to full steam. Games with significantly less scope have taken much longer, without hurdles like that.
It's a double edged sword, because open development has been what drove the crowd funding to such incredible heights (they made 2 million in 48 hours this week, for a total funding so far of 167 million). But it is also the reason for so many people being negative about it's development. People get fatigued of it.
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AWS was reusing their existing infrastructure and expertise and opening it up to 3rd parties. I'm unclear why Amazon needs a custom game engine. They must have some plans to enter this area, maybe make their own VR headsets?
Not really. They mostly built a second parallel system for aws and moved to using it several years after launch. Yes they used knowledge that existed in house but it was a totally separate project and mini company
Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…
Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…
Not an actual competitor to it, but almost like a reimagination without the social aspect, instead just being a sort of world builder. Like Minecraft with real objects
This is really forward thinking approach and it is kind of same they had done with AWS in 2000.
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>The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now It's true and it's unfortunate, we're just starting to see "affordable" hardware with decent performance. I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Rift, at 400 euros for the headset and the controllers it's pretty decent value IMO. Too bad VR seems to have lost some of its hype in the past year or two.
Err.. that's the exact definition of .. hype.
Integration with other services is the key. This could help offload some of the heavy lifting publishers have to deal with around infrastructure.
Looks heavily influenced by Unity. Kinda random that Amazon is building a web based Unity competitor. Doubly weird when you consider that this is their second game engine project. They are already building one called Amazon Lumberyard, forked from the serious AAA game engine CryEngine [1], and it appears at first glance to be entirely separate from this one. Is Amazon really getting value out of all the dev time they…