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Star Citizen Switches Game Engine

Cloud Imperium announced yesterday that their upcoming game Star Citizen and the single-player campaign Squadron 42 will now use Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine. Initially, the game had started its development on the CryEngine. “We’ve been working with Amazon for more than a year, as we have been looking for a technology leader to partner with for the long term future of Star Citizen and Squadron 42,” creative director Chris Roberts said. “Lumberyard provides ground breaking technology features for online games, including deep back-end cloud integration on AWS and its social component with Twitch that enables us to easily and instantly connect to millions of global gamers. “Because we share a common technical vision, it has been a very smooth and easy tr...


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