Making an HTML5 Game: Pong
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:
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Want to work for one of the hottest startups in London?
PlayCanvas is one of 11 companies shaking up the London startup scene. Our goal is to re-invent how video games are built, shared and played, and to do this we are building a world class team. Finding amazingly talented people is hard but, as usual, the Techstars crew have the answer.
A wild programmer appears!
It's a big day over at PlayCanvas towers. We have a new programmer. In fact, our first full-time staffer after the founding team.
Humouring the idiot with the camera phone
Moving to playcanvas.com
We've moved! Long live playcanvas.com!
Importing in the Cloud: New Asset Pipeline
We're taking the pain away from converting and uploading assets.
We're really excited to announce the launch of our new asset pipeline feature, which allows you to import all your assets into PlayCanvas via your web browser.
PlayCanvas Community Part 2 - Announcing PlayCanvas Discussion
In Part 1 we introduced PlayCanvas Answers, our Q&A site for getting technical help from the PlayCanvas community.
Now we expanding our community features into the world of forums and random internet chatter. Though with the cutting edge technical flair that you've come to expect from PlayCanvas.
Welcome Ludum Darers
Ludum Dare 26 is coming up this weekend. To celebrate we're giving anyone who wants to enter using PlayCanvas instant access to our closed Beta. To double celebrate if you submit a game using PlayCanvas we'll give you a full year's subscription to the Indie plan when we go public in a few weeks. That's over $150 worth of HTML5 game-dev goodness right there.
London HTML5 Game Developers
In case you didn't know, PlayCanvas is based in London in the UK. There is a thriving game dev scene in London and the rest of the UK, but there was nothing specific to growing HTML5 game development scene. So we decided to help kickstart one.
Dungeon Fury: 3D Browser Gaming Arrives on Mobile
Play Dungeon Fury in mobile and desktop browsers now
Something incredibly exciting is happening in the mobile browser space right now. WebGL is rapidly being integrated into browsers and all of a sudden, game developers have the technologies they need to deliver high quality 3D video games without having to deploy a native app. To show what is possible today, PlayCanvas has developed the game 'Dungeon Fury', a light-hearted fantasy game that pushes your reflexes to the limit. Dungeon Fury represents the world's first 3D HTML5 browser game that is built specifically for mobile (although it works great in desktop browsers too!). And if all this wasn't cool enough, the whole game was written using only a web browser, made possible with the PlayCanvas game engine!