CEO Will Eastcott at SXSW Accelerator

This past week the PlayCanvas founders have been deep in the heart of Texas at the celebrated mega-festival SXSW. We were chosen from over 500 companies to pitch to a enormous room full of business leads, journalists and tech enthusiasts. Will was on stage and we wowed them successfully enough to get through the final 3. Sadly another talented start-up crew beat us to the No. 1 slot, but a close 2nd is still pretty damn good.

We've moved on from Austin now, and we're in San Francisco preparing plenty of exciting news and demos for the Game Developer Conference. We look forward to sharing lots more stuff with you this week!

Yesterday, we announced an imminent update to the PlayCanvas Math API. It's a rare event that we introduce breaking changes and we only do it because we're certain it's going to help you be much more productive. So what have we changed?

Our new math API will make your life so much easier, but it will require updating your game.

One of our most requested features has landed today, and with it, it brings new power (and no new responsibility). Our most requested feature? Applying textures and materials to primitive shapes in the Designer.

To kick off 2014 with a bang, we're welcoming a brand new member to the PlayCanvas family.

So Ludum Dare 28 came and went last weekend and the theme was 'You Only Get One'. Here's a quick round up of the superb PlayCanvas games that were submitted this time around.

Drag and Drop, uploading and thumbnails, no longer a pain in the asset.

This week has been the week of the Asset at PlayCanvas. We taken a long hard look at how we add and use Assets and we've buffed and polished the process, taking off the ragged edges so that your workflow is now super smooth. Plus our big new feature, the PlayCanvas Asset Library. Find out more below

Use pre-made 3D models in your game

Submit a game to Ludum Dare and get a 1 year pro account for free!

At PlayCanvas we love to Jam. Specifically, we love to Game Jam. And of all the Game Jams, the one we love the most is the "build a game in a weekend with nothing more than your wits" Jam called Ludum Dare.

Here are this week's important changes!

A summary of the last few week's changes.