Preparing the Amazon GameLift Package


This feature is in preview release and is subject to change.

Lumberyard has support for bundling and distributing your dedicated Linux servers over Amazon GameLift . To integrate your Lumberyard game with GameLift, enable the GameLift Gem and use the GameLift C++ SDK API to configure your game server and client to manage server sessions and connections from a client application.

In the rest of this topic, you learn how to set up for creating your GameLift package and make a basic deployment.

Prerequisites

Before packaging and pushing your GameLift server, make sure that you complete the following.

Set up your AWS account to use the GameLift service. Follow the GameLift - Setting Up instructions.
Install the AWS CLI on your Linux server. Follow the AWS CLI install instructions for Linux .
Build and do a test deploy of your game server on a standalone Linux machine.
(Optional) Test client/server connectivity.

Prepare the GameLift package

The following instructions tell you how to package the MultiplayerSample project for a test deployment to GameLift. When you’re ready to deploy your game, edit the MultiplayerSample_CreateGameLiftPackage.sh script to use your project and its asset bundles.

On your Linux server, run the packaging script.
```
./MultiplayerSample_CreateGameLiftPackage.sh
```

Push your GameLift package to AWS using the AWS CLI.

aws gamelift upload-build --operating-system AMAZON_LINUX \
    --build-root "./GameLiftPackageLinux" \
    --name "your package name" \
    --build-version "your build version" \
    --region us-west-2

Note
If you want your servers to be hosted in a different AWS Region, replace the us-west-2 argument value with the appropriate region identifier .

Next steps

Now that you have your server package uploaded to AWS, take these next steps to get your game deployed over GameLift and do more advanced configuration.