Will NW continue to use Lumberyard or O3DE?

After reading some blog posts from AWS Game Tech Blog, I couldn’t help but wonder if New World will be using the successor to Lumberyard, O3DE? - Built for Builders: The Story of AWS and Open 3D Engine – Developer Preview | AWS Game Tech Blog (amazon.com)

I assume Lumberyard is no longer being updated, as the last release notes were from May 2021 - Lumberyard Release Notes - Lumberyard Release Notes (amazon.com)

Any developers here willing to spill the beans? Is AGS building New World in O3DE now?

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What is this o3de ?

That would explain some things lol

O3DE

O3DE is the open source version and sucessor to Lumberyard.

So supposedly even though the lumberyard brand is on the logo page, I believe that New World may be using O3DE @Luxendra do you know which is which?

If not I’d love for them to move to it, because that means players who are coders can contribute to fixing problems since it’s an open source project.

honest question though. having the innerworkings of a game exposed that way wouldn’t make it more susceptible to hacks and exploits?

No it exposes the issues. You likely use a browser based on open source code. Same situation applies. Problems are found faster or in a lot of cases more eyes mean more problems are found but at the same time more brains means more people who can come up with good solutions to a problem.

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O3dE Uses Lua…I have my reservations.

Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

There’s also the other side of the coin. More brains the bigger the problem can blossom :slight_smile:

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Hadn’t heard much about 03DE, will have to download and check it out. In theory, it will make AGS life easier to build on an open source or widely used engine. A big issue with using anything super proprietary like Lumberyard is hiring new devs onto the team, they are unlikely to have experience with that engine. It sounds like AGS had some major turnover on dev team since this game started. So any new devs needed to learn a new engine plus the actual architecture of project. A big part of why so many games and apps are built with UA and Unity is that you can hire new people who already have experience with them when there’s employee turnover.

Dude I think you’re a little late hahahaha. They are not going to port the game to another graphics engine. Even if lumberyard is the worst graphics engine ever, NW will stick with it unfortunately.

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Agreed, this ship has already sailed.

this ship already sank*

Fixed for you. You’re welcome

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Sinking for sure. But 30k playing it yesterday afternoon, so they still have some chances left. Current faction+economy related issues looking like they could be final killer if not resolved. All the time gated items really not helping either.

New world was being developed before lumberyard was finished. new world is an odd mix of lumber yard and the azoth engine that orange county produced.

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Thanks for info, that explains a lot. So it’s built on top of two unstable/unfinished engines, that’s got to be rough for current devs on project.

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