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Amazon Lumberyard GameMaker StudioBased on our record, GameMaker Studio should be more popular than Amazon Lumberyard. It has been mentiond 36 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Although, whatever the deal might've been, Amazon has since donated Lumberyard to the Open 3D Foundation which renamed it to the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) so they probably don't care nearly as much about upstream fixes anymore if they ever did. Source: 11 months ago
When I Googled Amazon Lumberyard, this was the first hit: https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/. Source: 12 months ago
Some of the game engines we have now have photogrammetry technology built-in, meaning that developers can easily integrate it into their games. This allows for even more detailed and realistic environments to be created in 3D games. The most prominent being Unreal, Unity, and Lumberyard -- including new and beginner-friendly ones like Panda3D and Yahaha. All of these game engines have photogrammetry at their core... Source: about 1 year ago
It really doesn't help that it started development on Lumberyard which is now a dead product. https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/. Source: about 1 year ago
Amazon has apparently declared Lumberyard dead, incidentally: https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/. Source: over 1 year ago
I am no game developer but have over the past few years played around with GameMaker and their studio software[0]. I would imagine it to be one of the easiest ways to get started with making a 2D game. Then there is also the option of not jumping directly into the coding bit, and rather cultivate in your son the ability to do on paper designs first. This is a skill that would probably benefit him later in life as... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
My introduction to programming was when I was 10 with GameMaker. I found that the same company has a product with the same name that seems to be the spiritual succesor of it[0]. I allowed me to start with very simple no-code and move on to incrementaly add codes nipets here and there. Eventually I went crazy and tried to make a game fully with code, avoiding all the tools the engine gave me, just as an experiment... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
If you're looking for a tool that's fairly simple for a beginner, but has the flexibility to also offer more advanced features as you learns more, and has plenty of tutorials and learning resources available for a novice programmer starting out: it's worth noting that GameMaker has recently (i.e. 2 weeks ago) been made completely free for non-commercial users. Source: 5 months ago
Go to https://gamemaker.io/en, and accept the new TOS. You won't be able to log in through the software until you do. Source: 5 months ago
There are a thousand ways to get started. I'm assuming you have no programming experience, in which case I'd start with an all in one package, like: Https://gamemaker.io/en. Source: 8 months ago
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