Dave Evans

Today we're pleased to launch Organizations for PlayCanvas users along with an updated and simplified set of plans including unlimited projects and more storage.

We've just launched "Scripts 2.0", a complete re-design and re-implementation of the scripting system for PlayCanvas applications. Our goals were to fix an array of small irritations that had built up over using the PlayCanvas scripting for the last few years and take the opportunity to clean up the interface and simplify the creation and usage of scripts.

Did you hear? VR is BIG! But what is bigger than VR? The web, that's what. What happens when you mix the web and VR?

We've added two new tutorials to our developer site this week.

For many years, lightmapping has been the mainstay of achieving low cost yet realistic lighting. However, it's rarely seen in WebGL applications because generating lightmaps requires third-party modelling applications with complex workflows in order to bake out textures.

All that changes today as we introduce Runtime Lightmap Generation into the PlayCanvas Engine.

Here's a link to full demo.

Today we've launched a new library and developer tutorial and sample project showing you how to implement your own Cardboard VR web applications using PlayCanvas.

It's finally over. The games were completed a few weeks ago and 6 judges have toiled over the games and struggled to grade and rate them. But we have a decision and boy it was close...

TANX running on HTTPS

From today we now support HTTPS URLs on all published applications. So anytime you see a link to something on http://playcanv.as you can also use https://playcanv.as. After a short period of testing we'll be changing all default links to point to the HTTPS versions of the applications, though we will keep support for non-secure HTTP versions for the short term to ensure compatibility for applications that require a non-secure page.

Today we've launched an update to streamline the way you publish your applications and to give your collaborators more information about what is changing.

Rockets! Robots! UFOs! PLAYHACK with PlayJam starts now.

We've teamed up with PlayJam and our 6 week game jam starts today. Check out the assets and theme, get your thinking hats on, then go and fork the project and get started.