Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for you to create the highest-quality games, connect your games to the vast compute and storage of the Amazon Web Services Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. By starting game projects with Lumberyard, you can spend more of your time creating great gameplay and building communities of fans, and less time on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building a game engine and managing server infrastructure. This session will demonstrate how Amazon Lumberyard and GameLift can be used to build a fully scalable first-person shooter game, including complex animated characters, vehicles and game AI. Lastly, it touches upon the new trend of Twitch ChatPlay, which allows to create customized game interactions between broadcasters and spectators on Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. Markku Lepisto‎, Principal Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, APAC Olivier Klein, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, Greater China

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Serv ices, Inc. or its Af f iliates. All rights reserv ed.
Olivier Klein 奧樂凱
Solutions Architect
Greater China
April 2016
Twitch-ready 3D-Games with
Amazon Lumberyard and GameLift
Markku Lepisto
Principal Technology Evangelist
APAC

2. What do we hear from Game Developers?
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Online Gameplay is deeper and more critical:
connected, social, continuously updated
Reaching a wide audience and buildinga vibrant
fan base is hard
Building games is expensive and margins are
razor thin
Platforms are expanding: PC, console, mobile, TV
and Quality bar keeps rising
Building differentiated gameplay is hard

3. A free AAA game engine deeply integrated with
AWS and Twitch – with full source

4. Amazon Lumberyard Engine
• Built based on the
successful CryEngine
• Systems by Double Helix
Games
• Cloud backend can be
powered by AWS
• Full integration with Twitch
• It’s free to use!

5. Amazon Lumberyard - Engine Platforms
PC PlayStation 4,
Xbox One
Android,
iOS
Virtual
Reality

6. Amazon Lumberyard - Editor
• IDE that allows live
Visual Editing
• Provides “Gems” for modular
development
• Designers for 2D & UI
interfaces
• Entity & Component framework
• Visual scripting via Flow Graph

7. That screenshot didn’t look fancy, is that all?

8. Complex outdoor environments with lighting

9. High Definition Rendering in real-time for characterss

10. Meet “Rin” – Rendered real-time in Lumberyard

12. That looks cool! But how does
the cloud integration work?

13. Leaderboards
UGC
Adaptable
Gameplay
Multiplayer
Cloud SaveDaily
Challenges

14. Amazon GameLift

15. Auto-Scalable Infrastructure
Build, deploy, manage and scale
game servers fully elastic is hard
• Compute and/or memory intensive
• Throwing larger servers at the
problem eats your margin
• Servers should scale based on
demand even with game session
state – scaling needs to respect
gameplay
Load
Capacity

16. Amazon GameLift
• Deploy and scale session-based
multiplayer games
• Designed for low-latency games
• Manage and update versions for
QA, Betas or game updates
• Gain real-time insights into
server fleet and game
performance

17. Amazon
GameLift
Build Catalog
UPLOAD
BINARY
Game
Version A
2
3
Version A
Instance 1
Version A
Instance 2
FLEET A
FLEET B
Version B
Instance 1
Version B
Instance 2
Amazon GameLift – Deploy Builds
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18. Amazon GameLift – Deploy Builds

19. Amazon GameLift – Real-time Insights

20. Amazon Lumberyard - Cloud Canvas

21. Cloud Canvas
• Tools integrated into Lumberyard to
directly access AWS resources
• Storage, Database, Compute,
Identity, Queuing, Notification
• Integrated into the FlowGraph of the
IDE for easy visual scripting
• Lumberyard handles all backend
communication with AWS

22. Cloud Canvas – Details
• AWS Primitives for Cloud
Canvas
• DynamoDB, S3, SNS,
Cognito, SQS, Lambda
• Callable from Script or
FlowGraph
• Integrated with AWS C++ SDK
to create your own additional
interaction nodes
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

23. Cloud Canvas – Amazon DynamoDB
• Fully managed NoSQL DB
service that scales to any
throughput and size
• Ideal to store game or player
stats, inventories or leaderboards
• Easy to query against indices to
sort for things like:
- How many have slain this monster?
- How many people have longswords?
- Who’s the current leader?
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

24. Cloud Canvas – Amazon SNS
• Managed notification service for
API endpoints or Mobile Push
Notifications
• Scales to millions of notifications
• Mobile Push supports
iOS, Android, Windows, Fire
• Ideal to notify other (cloud)
components of your games
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

25. Cloud Canvas – Amazon SQS
• Managed queuing service
• Scales to millions of messages
• Ideal to decouple game
components for backend
processing
• Examples:
• In-Game transactions tracking
• Delayed player behaviour
analysis
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

26. Cloud Canvas – Amazon S3
• Highly available and resilient
cloud storage for any objects
• Virtually unlimited scale
• Ideal to store game content
(graphics, sounds, avatars etc.)
and deliver to player
• Perfect for user-generated
content (UGC)
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

27. Cloud Canvas – Amazon Cognito
• Authenticate players between
sessions
• Login with Amazon, Google,
Facebook or your own identity
provider
• Generates consistent Player ID
• Provides small storage that syncs
between all devices (“Cloud
Save”)
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

28. Cloud Canvas – Amazon Lambda
• Run custom code logic in the
cloud, fully managed and highly
available
• Scales to any kind of throughput,
but charged only for execution time
• Can query other AWS services,
such as DynamoDB
• Perfect for cloud-side transactions
• Example: Does player have
enough gold to buy this item?
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS

29. Examples of a “Cloud Connected Feature”?
Leaderboards & Achievements
Cloud Save
Storing Character Stats &
Inventory
Message of the Day & Daily
Challenges
Downloadable
Content
Newsticker
User-Generated Content
(“UGC”)
Server-Authenticated
Transactions

30. Twitch – Build your fanbase!

31. Twitch - Create a Fan Base!
• Leading Social Video Platform
for Gamers
• Helps to build strong
communities for your game
• Leverage entertaining players to
spread adoption
• Is this game worth getting?
• How do I get better at this game?
100M unique viewers / month
106 minutes / person / day
2M peak concurrent viewers

32. Design for Viewer Interaction
Broadcaster
AudienceGame
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33. Twitch Integration
Twitch ChatPlay
Allows viewers to type chat commands
to influence game
Twitch JoinIn
Broadcasters can invite viewers into their
game

34. Time to get real - Show me a demo!

35. Demo – Amazon Lumberyard
• Demonstrate the IDE
• Build a live “Singapore” level
• Navigate around!
• Build Twitch and Cloud Canvas
integration via Flow Graph
• Engage audience – Get your
Twitch Mobile Apps ready!

36. Thank you!
Olivier Klein 奧樂凱
Solutions Architect, Greater China