Taking your game beyond the Lumberyard Editor

So far we have created game levels and explored existing sample game levels to learn how to use the Lumberyard Editor and its primary functionality. In each case, we played the game using Game Mode within the Editor. That is great for testing your games, but you cannot expect users to have a copy of the Lumberyard Editor. So, we need to publish the game in a format that permits others to play it.

We can use Lumberyard to create games for computers running the Windows operating system and the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles. At the time of this book's publication, support for deploying to mobile devices running iOS and Android was in preview, and therefore not covered in this chapter. In addition, support for computers running the Mac and Linux will be forthcoming.

Next, we will look at the external requirements for publishing to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 game consoles. Then, we will conclude this section with an overview of...