February 12, 2016 - A clause in the terms for Lumberyard, ... engine, tells designers not to use the engine to make “life-critical” software, such as self-driving cars and medical equipment, though the restriction would be waived in the event of a viral outbreak triggering a undead-driven apocalypse...

November 18, 2024 - Amazon's Lumberyard game engine has a zombie clause buried deep within its EULA.

February 10, 2016 - The single sentence in a 26,000 word document has helped it get the word out about the newly-released Lumberyard, a gaming engine that is free to developers but which must be hosted on either Amazon’s Web servers or the developers' own. ... Zombies tend to pop up in the oddest places.

Amazon's new terms of service for Lumberyard won't apply if zombies attack.

February 9, 2016 - Only the fall of civilization from a widespread zombie attack will release you from Amazon’s terms of service for one of its new products. The company just released a game engine called Lumberyard that gives developers a bunch of free tools, but one of the best parts of the announcement was hidden in the Amazon Web Services Service Terms.

September 8, 2021 - The terms of service for Amazon’s Lumberyard state that the game engine can be used in the event of a widespread zombie apocalypse, if the CDC certifies it as such.

February 3, 2019 - Well, this is what happens when big biz attempts to get down wiv da kidz. No doubt when the zombie apocalypse comes - and make no mistake that day will dawn - Amazon's lawyers will be battling with users over the interpretation of "likely to result", as our cities burn.

February 10, 2016 - Amazon says its newly released game-development software shouldn’t be used for “life-critical or safety-critical systems”— except for in the event of a zombie invasion. The terms of service for Lumberyard, Amazon’s new package for game creators, say that the software isn’t intended for use to operate medical equipment, automated transport systems, aircraft or air traffic control, manned spacecraft, or military use, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon has added a zombie apocalypse clause to its new Lumberyard Materials tools.

February 10, 2016 - Seems pretty sensible, after all using a game engine for many of those purposes would be foolhardy and potentially dangerous. However, should humanity be at risk of a zombie invasion with naught but a game engine to save themselves, Amazon have us covered in the second half of the clause.

April 16, 2020 - Training simulations in combating zombies are abundant already, from Last of Us and Left for Dead to 1996’s House of the Dead. Anyone who has watched Shaun of the Dead also knows that a cricket bat to the head is the most effective method of dispatching the undead, a method which needs little training. Either way, the rest of the terms of service for Lumberyard require that it only be used on Amazon’s servers (and there’s no zombie apocalypse exemption there) so if the worst does happen, and Amazon’s servers go offline too, you’ll be out of luck.

February 10, 2016 - Under section 57.10 of the AWS service terms, it notes that Lumberyard is not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, "such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat". But if a zombie outbreak outbreak occurs, then all of that changes -- perhaps because when the dead come back to life, what you really need is a cloud-based gaming engine to lead the fightback.

February 10, 2016 - Since Amazon launched its free Lumberyard game engine yesterday, the world has been united in a single question: are we legally allowed to use the engine to operate life-saving infrastructure during the zombie apocalypse?

January 21, 2022 - Amazon’s terms of service says Lumberyard is not intended for use with “life-critical or safety-critical systems,” except in a zombie apocalypse.

February 10, 2016 - Turns out that certain uses are restricted; Lumberyard is “not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat,” according to clause 57.10 of Amazon’s AWS service terms. So you can’t use Lumberyard to wage warfare. Got it. But wouldn’t it be useful to have a free game engine on hand, just in case humanity needed software to power the wanton tools of destruction needed to take on a marauding horde of zombies?

February 16, 2016 - The AWS Service Terms run to a lengthy 58 sections of legalese sufficient to put even the most energetic zombie into a deathlike slumber. But a close reading of Section 57 reveals a provision that may provide a reanimating jolt to the careful reader. That section relates to the Amazon Lumberyard Engine, which is a game engine offered by AWS, and its associated assets and tools—collectively referred to as the “Lumberyard Materials.”

February 25, 2020 - ‘Amazon Lumberyard consists of an engine, integrated development environment, related assets, and tools we make available here or otherwise designate as Lumberyard materials’ · However, broadly speaking this acceptable use clause does not apply to certain scenarios during the Zombie Apocalypse.

September 20, 2017 - But in Amazon’s ever-so-cheeky style , the terms of service include a hidden easter egg: a voiding clause , which allow users to do anything they’d like with the platform if a zombie apocalypse occurs: “The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat.

February 10, 2016 - The beauty here is that this is both hilarious and, well, dead-ass serious, legally speaking. Amazon's legal team may be joking now, but there damn well better be the servers and bandwidth to get us back on Netflix when everything on this spinning rock goes down the tubes.

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