What does HackerNews think of o3de?

Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006) | Jul 2023

Note that Lumberyard became "Open 3D Engine" (yes, very inspired name) which is Apache 2 licensed:

AFAIK all development in Lumberyard has ceased and moved to O3DE.

Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine | Dec 2021

> To solve some of these challenges, we introduced the Lumberyard game engine in 2016. Lumberyard provided a completely free (no royalties or seat licenses), source-available, real-time 3D development engine that made it possible to build, deploy, and scale quickly with cloud integrations. Over the past 5 years, we continued evolving the product for our customers.

> ...That’s why the Linux Foundation has announced the Open 3D Foundation, with AWS seeding the foundation with the Open 3D Engine (O3DE). O3DE is a AAA-capable, cross-platform open source game engine. As part of an open source community, O3DE can expand 3D development for games and simulations by providing all the tools that developers need to bring their real-time 3D environments to life.

ie. This is lumberyard, which is "Amazon Lumberyard is a now superseded freeware cross-platform game engine developed by Amazon and based on CryEngine (initially released in 2002), ..."

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/open-3d-engine/

...but, love it or not, the source is Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/o3de/o3de), so there's sure to be some stuff you can grab there to use in other things.

Game Engines on Steam: The Definitive Breakdown | Sep 2021

I only recently found out about:

https://o3de.org/

https://github.com/o3de/o3de

Seems to be opensourced engine based on Amazon's Lumberyard engine, which itself was based on Crytek's engine (!!).