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by caniszczyk 1247 days ago
If you are looking for a AAA open source engine today with an open community, check out https://www.o3de.org

I hope Godot continues to improve and competition increases in the open source AAA gaming engine space as this space is well overdue for fully open source options.
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remram 1247 days ago
Seems to be a "developer preview" with no released games.
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m0guz 1247 days ago
It is actually Amazon's Lumberyard, which was also CryEngine fork.
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remram 1246 days ago
Are there any released games built with Lumberyard?
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41209 1247 days ago
I wouldn't attach myself to it, the community( Amazon employees mostly) are friendly, they'll even offer to help you with any issues you run into.

But seriously, no games exist, no real demo projects with it exist. For some reason it uses Lua instead of strongly typed language like C#.

Seriously, games NEED types. At scale projects get really messy without them. Oh wait, O3de pushes script canvas on you.

At the end of the day , I find myself getting sucked back into Unity. Unity could be better, but it's still the best engine for most people. Much of that is just due to documentation. For some reason Amazon decided effectively hide all of it's old Lumberyard docs and examples when they rebranded as O3de. No one will ever know why.

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