PlayCanvas has now completed the 3 month long Techstars accelerator and to mark the occasion, a glitzy Demo Day was held at an exclusive theatre in London's Victoria.
Will took to the stage (to the sound of Gangnam Style!) to present the technology to a 350 strong audience of angel investors, venture capitalists and the press.
On Wednesday, 18th September, I flew out to Warsaw to run a workshop for onGameStart, the world's most awesome conference for HTML5 game developers.
See what all your friends are looking at, as remote user cameras show up in the Designer.
The new features keep on coming from the PlayCanvas mines of awesome, and today's is a biggie.
We're now displaying the camera's of all the users who are viewing your pack. Now it's really starting to feel like a collaborative process when you are building your game.
So, invite your friends and get building!
Let us know what you think about this feature in the forums
We've updated the Designer theme to give it an all-new Pro look.
Black is the new Black
Functionally it remains the same, but we'll be focussing on making a few of the controls more intuitive over the next few weeks.
Let us know what you think on the forums.
Yesterday, at PlayCanvas we hosted our first physical Game Jam. By physical, I mean we had all the developers in the same location, not that we made them run around and do push-ups!
The PlayCanvas Game Jam Dungeon
A video tutorial recreating arcade classic, Lunar Lander in 3D.
This is our second video tutorial. It's a bit longer (around 45mins) but it covers a lot of stuff. Uploading 3D models, physics coding, collision events, input controllers, playing audio and publishing games to the web. It's a great introduction to lots of major features of PlayCanvas.
Enjoy and don't forget to leave us feedback on the forums.
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Last night I presented at the London HTML5 Game Dev meetup. As usual we had an awesome time and if you're based in or around London then you should definitely try and get along to the next one.
It was an overview of the ammo.js the physics engine we use internally for PlayCanvas and should be an interesting read for anyone who isn't totally familiar with what a physics engine is or does. It gives a nice overview of the different parts that make up a full physics engine and includes a bunch of demos about what is possible with PlayCanvas.
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The all new front-page shows an overview of all PlayCanvas activity.
New shiny thing
A video tutorial on how to make a Pong clone using PlayCanvas.
Will has put together a short video showing how you can make a Pong game using PlayCanvas. It will take you through creating Primitive shapes, how to use the built-in physics engine, and some gameplay scripting to move the player paddles. It's a great introduction to PlayCanvas and building games.
Check it out on YouTube or below: