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.
