nu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Features 2 Notable PlayCanvas applications 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Toggle the table of contents PlayCanvas 4 languages Deutsch Français 日本語 한국어 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 3D game engine PlayCanvas The PlayCanvas web-based Editor and example of a 3d application in-development Developers Will Eastcott, Dave Evans, Vaios Kalpias Ilias, Kevin Rooney, Maksims Mihejevs Written in JavaScript Operating system OS independent Platform Cross-platform Type HTML5 3D engine License MIT License Website playcanvas .com Repository github .com /playcanvas /engine As of July 2014 PlayCanvas is an open-source [ 1 ] 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. [ 2 ] 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. [ 3 ] The PlayCanvas engine was open-sourced on June 4, 2014. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In April 2019, BusinessInsider.com reported that the company was acquired by Snap Inc. in 2017. [ 6 ] Features [ edit ] The PlayCanvas platform has collaborative real-time Editor that allows editing a project by multiple developers simultaneously. [ 7 ] 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. [ 8 ] Projects can be distributed via a URL web link or packaged in native wrappers, p.g. for Android , using CocoonJS [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] or for Steam using Electron , and many other options and platforms. Notable PlayCanvas applications [ edit ] Various companies [ 12 ] use PlayCanvas in projects of different disciplines of interactive 3D content in the web. Disney created an educational game [ 13 ] for Hour of Code based on its Moana film. King published Shuffle Cats Mini, [ 14 ] as a launch title for Facebook Instant Games . TANX [ 15 ] – massively multiplayer online game of cartoon styled tanks. Miniclip published number of games [ 16 ] [ 17 ] on their platform with increase of HTML5 games popularity on the web. Mozilla collaborated [ 18 ] with PlayCanvas team creating After the Flood [ 19 ] demo for presenting cutting-edge features of WebGL 2.0. See also [ edit ] List of WebGL frameworks List of game engines JavaScript HTML5 WebGL References [ edit ] ^ "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 . [ dead link ] ^ "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)" . Archived from the original on 2017-04-05 . Retrieved 2017-04-04 . ^ "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)" . External links [ edit ] PlayCanvas Official Website PlayCanvas Engine (Open Source) PlayCanvas Developer Site PlayCanvas API Reference Various free-to-play games built with PlayCanvas v t e Game engines ( list ) Source port First-person shooter engine List of first-person shooter engines Game engine recreation List of game engine recreations Game creation system Game IDE List of visual novel engines id Tech Proprietary 1980s Adventure Game Interpreter Cobra Filmation Freescape Gold Box Sierra Creative Interpreter SCUMM 1990s 3D GameStudio Clickteam Dark Engine GameMaker Genie Engine GoldSrc Infinity Engine Jedi LithTech Mugen Pie in the Sky Reality Lab RenderWare RPG Maker Sim RPG Maker Unreal Engine 1 Virtools Virtual Theatre Voxel Space Zillions of Games 2000s Anvil C4 Engine CryEngine Crystal Tools Euphoria Flare3D Frostbite Gamebryo GameSalad HeroEngine IW Leadwerks Marmalade MT Framework PhyreEngine Q RAGE Shark 3D Source Unigine Unity Unreal Engine 2 Unreal Engine 3 Virtools 2.5 Vicious Engine Vision Visual3D Game Engine 2010s 4A Engine Amazon Lumberyard Bitsquid Buildbox Construct Creation Engine Decima Defold Felgo ForgeLight Fox Engine id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite Katana Engine Luminous Engine 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 1970s Z-machine 1990s Adventure Game Studio Build Crystal Space Doom engine Game-Maker OHRRPGCE Quake engine Quake II engine Stratagus 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 Thousand Parsec Torque Vassal Engine Wintermute Engine 2010s Delta3D Godot GPUOpen Horde3D libGDX Luanti Moai OpenFL ORX PlayCanvas Raylib Snap! 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