Introduction to Amazon Lumberyard and GameLift

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1 Introduction to Amazon Lumberyard and GameLift Peter Chapman, Solutions Architect 3/7/2017

2 A Free AAA Game Engine Deeply Integrated with AWS and Twitch

3 Lumberyard Vision A free, AAA game engine that uses the vast compute and storage of AWS to create experiences that lowers development costs and deliver orders of magnitude greater scale, fidelity, and player agency.

4 Lumberyard Vision A free, AAA game engine that uses the vast compute and storage of AWS to create experiences that lowers development costs and deliver orders of magnitude greater scale, fidelity, and player agency. No royalties, no subscriptions, source code included, and with Amazon support

5 AAA Engine 1 Easy to use 2 Easy workflows for engineers, artists, designers, etc. Robust tools for professionals Familiar UX patterns Robust samples, tutorials, docs Fast deployment to devices Automation, where possible Modular Architecture Extensible Performant Hardened, backwards-compatible APIs Right-sized mobile apps

6 Deeply integrated with AWS Common connected 1 2 elements made easy Multiplayer Social features Economy Analytics Dynamic and live content update Focus your efforts on innovation, not hiring backend engineers to build undifferentiated infrastructure. Fantastic new experiences made possible Procedural gameplay Complex artificial intelligence Big data & machine learning Richer, bigger worlds with more players Procedural speech Distributed computing for physics, rendering, big data, etc. Massive compute and storage will open a new realm of possibilities

7 Streamlined and designed for familiarity and rapid iteration Fully customizable Professional UX team leading usability studies

8 Mobile + VR Overview Mobile ios Android iphone 5S+ minspec High-performance rendering with Metal and GMEM Samsung Note 4+ minspec OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1 and Android SDK 19+ ~25MB minimum package size on ios and Android Support for gestures, touch controls, etc. VR 1-click support for Oculus, Vive, OSVR, PSVR Instant VR preview from the Editor

9 Modular Gems System Gems can contain editor and engine features, gameplay, scripting hooks, and assets Share Gems between games, teams, or studios Encapsulate developer changes from Amazon changes Managed using the Project Configurator (pictured here) Source for standard Gems ships with Lumberyard under /dev/gems

10 Cloud Gems Framework Enable cloud features in as little as 30 minutes, with one engineer Cloud Gem Portal lets anyone on your team manage cloud features Cloud Gems: Dynamic Content Leaderboards Daily Messages Player Accounts

11 Cloud Canvas Visually script common AWS services for databases, storage, and compute (e.g. DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda) to create simple backend gameplay more easily. Resource Manager easily deploy AWS resources from the Editor (with support for Beta, Gamma, QA configurations, etc). Pre-integrated with the AWS C++ SDK Support for visually scripting cloud logic coming this year

12 Useful Links Amazon Lumberyard FAQ: Amazon Lumberyard + Starter Game Download Page: YouTube Channel:

13 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon GameLift

14 Amazon GameLift Easy-to-use service for hosting dedicated game servers for multiplayer games Automatically scale capacity up and down based on real-time player demand, so you can provide low-latency, high-availability games to players, without paying for capacity you don't need GameLift abstracts away hardware, server, and session management, presenting a few simple API's for placing players into available games

15 A U T H COMMUNICATION S O C I A L M U L T I P L A Y E R Where GameLift fits today into a game backend P L A Y E R C O M M E R C E W E B S I T E S Player Profiles Skill & Rank Wallet C S T O O L S Friends Engagement Session Management Matchmaking Item Catalog Virtual Currencies A N A L Y T I C S Player Privacy Parties In-App Purchase R E M O T E C O N F I G Search Identity Authentication Authorization Rank Reputation Player Presence Notifications Text Chat Voice Chat D E P L O Y M E N T Ingestion Packaging Release Auto-scaling A / B T E S T I N G SERVER HOSTING GAMELIFT

16 Easy to use. Start in minutes Upload server binary Configure fleet Scale up Play

17 Scale based on player demand. No upfront commitments. GameLift pricing: On-demand compute, storage, and bandwidth

18 EC2 and GameLift Autoscaling EC2 Autoscaling for CPU s Adjust scale based on realtime measurements of CPU, network, or storage. GameLift - Autoscaling for Games Adjust scale based on realtime availability of player sessions, game sessions, or instances (VM s), or average player wait time. 2017, 2017, Amazon Amazon Web Web Services, Services, Inc Inc. or its or Affiliates. its Affiliates. All All rights rights reserved.

19 Lower development and operational effort with GameLift Features needed to run dedicated game servers GameLift provides: Build deployment Instance scaling based on game metrics Instance selection Game server debugging Game server logs Game server metrics Game server bin packing Game server crash recovery Game server security Game session management Game session browse & search Player session management Player routing by latency Player queuing Player throttling UI visualization & control Service availability & fault tolerance Downstream throttling Retry strategies Game server updates Multi-region player allocation EC2 provides: Instance management Instance scaling based on hardware metrics Hardware security Ddos mitigation You provide: Monitoring & alarming Server profiling 24/7 support strategy Load tests Skill-based matchmaking 2017, 2017, Amazon Amazon Web Web Services, Services, Inc Inc. or its or Affiliates. its Affiliates. All All rights rights reserved.

20 Deliver low-latency player experiences Asia Pacific (Seoul) US West (Oregon) EU (Ireland) Asia Pacific (Tokyo) US East (Virginia) EU (Frankfurt) Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Coming Soon South America (Sau Paulo) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Coming Soon

21 Useful Links Amazon GameLift FAQ: Amazon GameLift SDK Getting Started Page: , Amazon Web Services, Inc or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.

22 Thank You! 2017, 2017, Amazon Amazon Web Web Services, Services, Inc Inc. or its or Affiliates. its Affiliates. All All rights rights reserved.