Major features of the Open 3D Engine include a new multi-threaded photorealistic renderer, an extensible 3D content editor, a data-driven character animation system, and a node-based visual scripting ...

An open source version of Amazon’s Lumberyard engine was launched this week. Named the Open 3D Engine (03DE) it will provide developers with a free alternative to the likes of Unity and Unreal ...

Efforts like the Open 3D Foundation allow them to focus on the features that really set them apart. It helps that Lumberyard and now the Open 3D Engine were, from the outset, meant to be modular.

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), th… ...

Amazon is open-sourcing its Lumberyard game engine, making the technology more accessible to everyone.

Regardless, it is capable of great things, as demonstrated by [Bernhard Strobl], who built a 3D open world game engine that runs on that very platform.