Twitch users decided my fate in a VR game built on Amazon Lumberyard

Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big booth for Amazon Lumberyard, that cross-platform 3D game engine that public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled last month. The line was for a virtual reality (VR) demo of a game powered by Lumberyard that features a cool integration with the Amazon-owned live streaming app Twitch.

Specifically, the demo was meant to show off ChatPlay, a way to “let Twitch viewers use chat to directly impact the game they are watching in real-time,” as Amazon explains on the Lumberyard website.