Amazon Lumberyard (beta)

Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch—with full source. Lumberyard provides a growing set of tools to help you create the highest quality games, engage massive communities of fans, and connect games to the vast compute and storage of the cloud. Participate in the forums or learn about new changes on our blog.

Getting Started Guide
Provides a detailed introduction to Lumberyard and includes a tutorial that walks you through an example use of Lumberyard Editor and other tools.
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C++ API Reference Guide
Describes the fundamental C++ API operations of the Lumberyard component entity system. This includes API operations for the component, entity, EBus, and reflection base classes.
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Legacy Reference
Provides information on legacy Lumberyard systems and features like Flow Graph, Geppetto, and Mannequin.
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User Guide
Offers conceptual overviews and in-depth information for game developers and game engineers on how to use Lumberyard Editor and Lumberyard systems and features.
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Release Notes
Presents a summary of features, improvements, resolved issues, and known issues in Lumberyard.
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Archive

Lumberyard documentation is available in PDF format for the following versions.