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PlayCanvas

The PlayCanvas web-based Editor and example of a 3d application in-development
Developer(s)	Will Eastcott, Dave Evans, Vaios Kalpias Ilias, Kevin Rooney, Maksims Mihejevs
Repository	github.com/playcanvas/engine
Written in	JavaScript
Operating system	OS independent
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	HTML5 3D engine
License	MIT License
Website	playcanvas.com
As of	July 2014

PlayCanvas is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface. It runs in modern browsers that support WebGL, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The engine is capable of rigid-body physics simulation, handling three-dimensional audio and 3D animations.

PlayCanvas has gained the support of ARM, Activision and Mozilla.

The PlayCanvas engine was open-sourced on June 4, 2014.

In April 2019, BusinessInsider.com reported that the company was acquired by Snap Inc. in 2017.

Features

The PlayCanvas platform has collaborative real-time Editor that allows editing a project by multiple developers simultaneously. The engine supports the WebGL 1.0 and 2.0 standard to produce GPU accelerated 3D graphics and allows for scripting via the JavaScript programming language. Projects can be distributed via a URL web link or packaged in native wrappers, p.g. for Android, using CocoonJS or for Steam using Electron, and many other options and platforms.

Notable PlayCanvas applications

Various companies use PlayCanvas in projects of different disciplines of interactive 3D content in the web.

Disney created an educational game for Hour of Code based on its Moana film.

King published Shuffle Cats Mini, as a launch title for Facebook Instant Games.

TANX – massively multiplayer online game of cartoon styled tanks.

Miniclip published number of games on their platform with increase of HTML5 games popularity on the web.

Mozilla collaborated with PlayCanvas team creating After the Flood demo for presenting cutting-edge features of WebGL 2.0.

References

"PlayCanvas goes open source". hacks.mozilla.org. June 4, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
"GDC 2014: Mozilla and partners prove Web is the platform for gaming". blog.mozilla.org. March 18, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
"Techstars London: Top Picks". techcrunch.com. September 27, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
"PlayCanvas 3D WebGL Game Engine Now Open Source". gamingonlinux.com. June 4, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
"PlayCanvas takes its WebGL video game engine open source". thenextweb.com. June 4, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
Ghosh, Shona. "This tech CEO secretly sold his startup to Snap and spent 2 years building a product that could transform the firm's fortunes". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
"PlayCanvas Video Game Making".
"PlayCanvas Browser-Based Game Engine". phoronix.com. June 4, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
"Ludei CocoonJS". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
"Ludei CocconJS Tech Partners - Engines". ludei.com. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
"PlayCanvas App On Mobile Using CocoonJS". magicsheepgames.co.uk. October 9, 2013. Archived from the original on September 17, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
"Github PlayCanvas Users List". GitHub.
"Disney - Hour of Code - Moana (educational game)".
"Facebook - Shuffle Cats Mini (game)". Facebook.
"TANX (game)".
"Miniclip - Virtual Voodoo (game)".
"Miniclip - Flappy Bird (game)".
"Mozilla launching WebGL 2.0 support in Firefox".
"After the Flood (webgl 2.0 demo)".

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Game engines (list)

Proprietary

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2000s	Anvil C4 Engine Chrome Engine CryEngine Crystal Tools Diesel Ego Essence Engine Euphoria Flare3D Frostbite Gamebryo GameSalad HeroEngine IW Leadwerks Marmalade MT Framework PhyreEngine Q RAGE Retro Engine SAGE Shark 3D Silent Storm engine Source Titan Unigine Unity Unreal Engine 2 Unreal Engine 3 Vicious Engine Vision Visual3D Game Engine
2010s	4A Engine Amazon Lumberyard Bitsquid Buildbox Construct Creation Engine Decima Defold Felgo Fox Engine id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite Kynapse Luminous Engine Nvidia GameWorks Panta Rhei Pixel Game Maker MV RE Engine Snowdrop Stencyl Source 2 UbiArt Framework Unreal Engine 4
2020s	id Tech 7 Unreal Engine 5

Free and
open-source

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2000s	Away3D Blender Game Engine Bork3D Game Engine Cocos2d Dim3 Game Editor GDevelop id Tech 3 id Tech 4 Irrlicht Engine jMonkeyEngine Lightweight Java Game Library Löve OGRE Open Wonderland Panda3D Papervision3D Plasma Platinum Arts Sandbox Pygame Ren'Py Scratch Solar2D Spring Engine Thousand Parsec Torque Vassal Engine Wintermute Engine
2010s	Delta3D Godot GPUOpen Horde3D libGDX Moai OpenFL ORX PlayCanvas Raylib Snap! Stencyl Stride
2020s	Open 3D Engine

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Features

Notable PlayCanvas applications

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References

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