D.E.M.O. Multiplayer 3rd-person shooter running in the browser

PlayCanvas were lucky enough to show a demo of our collaborative HTML5 game development toolset at Google I/O a few months back. We had a few existing demos of simple games that we had made in order to test the platform.

However, we really wanted to show something a little more high-end, to showcase the possibilities that HTML5 offers for next-generation browser games. With a little under two weeks to go we started work on the demo we'd feature on the show floor. A networked multiplayer 3rd-person shooter we descriptively called 'scifi'. We’ve since renamed it to the slightly less descriptive D.E.M.O.

Google I/O certainly kept us busy last month, but we've still found the time to keep pushing out those features.

This weeks big ticket item is integration with GitHub and support for private repositories on both Bitbucket and GitHub.

A massive thank you to everybody who took the time to swing by our stand at Google I/O last week. We had an amazing time and hope you did too. If you weren't at the conference, here's our space in the Developer Sandbox:

We were really excited to be showing our latest game/demo: a networked multiplayer, third person shooter. We were running MacBook Pro and a ChromeBook connected to a node.js server. We think we did a great job of showing just what's possible with HTML5 (and WebGL) with only moderate hardware. Expect some more info soon on the near-term plans we have for the demo...

What is PlayCanvas?​

PlayCanvas is a toolset for creating the next-generation of browser games. It's a professional 3D game engine, a toolset that takes real-time collaboration seriously and a publishing system for getting your game out to the world.

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