Dave Evans

Last month we worked with ARM to launch our first Prize PLAYHACK. They provided the great prize of a Samsung Chromebook 2 13.3".

PLAYHACK is our monthly game jam. We give you the starter kit for a game. You take the basics and use your imagination and skill to build a new game. Our favorite game at the end of the month will be showcased to thousands of PlayCanvas users and featured on the site. The only rules, start from our project and have fun.

This month we have an extra special PLAYHACK, our monthly game jam, to announce. We've teamed up with ARM, to bring you both a excellent new 3D Model to start your game with, but also an excellent prize.

With the latest engine changes released today (v0.164.0), we're streamlining our API to make it quicker and easier for you to get started with PlayCanvas. Less API to remember, more time coding your game.

Our most popular PLAYHACK ever finishes today. Last month's gem challenge sparked your creativity and led to over 30 forks of the project.

We were lucky enough to see some amazing festive entries in PLAYHACK December, but January isn't really known for a lot. So we have put our brains together to give you some sparkly assets to play with.

Today we've added a new feature to help us bring the best projects and games from PlayCanvas to the fore.

The PlayCanvas Community is growing all the time and we know that some of that growth is down to your hard work in promoting the engine.

Last month we introduced the Devlog to help strengthen the PlayCanvas community and this month we're launching our Referrals program. It's our way of saying thank you for using and sharing our engine. PlayCanvas simply wouldn't work without you, our community.

Propsplanet is an online digital marketplace which sells 3D models to independent game developers. Previously powered by the Unity Web Player browser plugin, Propsplanet has this week relaunched using the PlayCanvas engine.

As this is our first PLAYHACK we thought it would be sensible to start with a few tips and tutorials to get you going. We’ll follow up with more of these throughout the week. Don’t forget, these are just examples. You can make any game you like.