AWS is a founding member of the Open 3D Foundation, which was founded to assist open source initiatives.

Lumberyard, Amazon’s gaming engine, will be released as an open-source project soon.

The move is part of the Linux Foundation’s launch of the Open 3D Foundation, which intends to assist “open source initiatives that expand capabilities relating to 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, and development.”

An upgraded version of Lumberyard will be released under the Apache 2.0 license as Open 3D Engine (O3DE), with a developer preview already available. The final rollout will take place in late 2021.

AccelByte, Apocalypse Studios, Amazon Web Services, Carbonated, Huawei, Intel, the International Game Developers Association, Kythera AI, Niantic, and Wargaming are among the Open 3D Foundation’s founding members.

In October, the newly formed foundation will host its first O3DECon.

“We’re proud to offer the 3D development community an unencumbered, AAA-capable, real-time 3D engine with one of the broadest arrays of integrated 3D authoring tools in the industry, including a new photorealistic renderer, built for both modern gaming hardware and distributed cloud rendering,” said Bill Vass, VP of engineering at Amazon Web Services.

“We believe that much as Linux revolutionized OS systems and Apache revolutionized the web, having a first-class, community-driven, open-source option will transform real-time 3D programming.”