''PlayCanvas'' is an

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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 WebGL (Short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated ...

, including

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and

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. 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. Snap Inc. is an American camera and social media company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown based in Santa Monica, California. The company developed and maintains technological products and services, ...

in 2017

Features

The PlayCanvas platform has

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that allows editing project by multiple developers simultaneously. The engine supports the

1.0 and 2.0 standard to produce GPU accelerated 3D graphics and allows for scripting via the

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programming language. Projects can be distributed via a URL web link or packaged in native wrappers, p.g. for Android, using CocoonJS or for

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using

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, 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 The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

created an educational game for

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based on its '' Moana'' film.

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published ''Shuffle Cats Mini'' as a launch title for Facebook Instant Games. TANX -

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of cartoon styled tanks.

Miniclip Miniclip SA is a mobile game publisher and former browser game website that launched in 2001. It was started by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie with a budget of £40,000. In 2008, the company was valued at over £275 million. In 2009, Miniclip ...

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

Mozilla Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, wi ...

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

References

External links

PlayCanvas Official WebsitePlayCanvas Engine (Open Source)PlayCanvas API ReferencePlayCanvas TutorialsVarious free-to-play games built with PlayCanvas
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Features

Notable PlayCanvas applications

See also

References

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