Lumberyard switches to Open 3D Engine

[the-pi-guy]

Venture Beat

Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine.

The Linux Foundation will oversee the project and form the Open 3D Foundation to accelerate collaboration with game developers to enhance the triple-A game engine

[Legend]

If it has full support, this could be great. Most devs just use regular features and paying for the engine makes sense. But for custom games this is nice sounding. Maybe long term it could be the blender of game dev.