Today, Adobe announced that it is to kill Flash by 2020.

Back in early 2011, we foresaw this event and started work on PlayCanvas. We knew that Flash would still be around for some years, but we also knew that building any replacement for content creators would be a titanic task. Over six years later, PlayCanvas has established itself as the go-to toolset for building WebGL-content. The browser-based Editor application is lightweight yet exceptionally powerful. The apps produced are super-lightweight and perform great even on older mobile devices. And our modern, cloud-based approach enables developers to collaborate and iterate like never before.

The PlayCanvas website and editor will be unavailable intermittently from 9am UTC tomorrow (Saturday 10th June) while we perform server maintenance. We will endeavor to keep downtime to a minimum but the period of downtime may be several hours. Stay informed with updates via this blog post and on our Twitter Account.

We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update: Maintenance is complete at 2.30pm UTC. Thanks for you patience.

Today we're excited to unveil the new code editor for all our PlayCanvas users. We've been taking your feedback since we launched Scripts 2.0 last year and we've updated the code editor to make working on scripts in PlayCanvas much easier.

Today we're excited to launch the WebVR Lab, a living project built by the PlayCanvas team to help developers learn about creating scalable and responsive WebVR applications for all devices.

Try the lab right now:

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Today is a huge milestone for real-time graphics on the web. Mozilla has launched Firefox 51, the first browser to bring WebGL 2 to the masses. WebGL has been around since 2011, the year when PlayCanvas was founded. 6 years on, the open standard for web graphics has taken a huge leap forwards, exposing far more GPU capabilities to developers, making for ever richer, more beautiful experiences.

To mark the launch of WebGL 2, Mozilla and PlayCanvas have teamed up to build 'After the Flood'.

We're excited to announce the launch of Master Archer, our new Instant Game for Facebook Messenger. Shoot the fruit from Bob's head and challenge your friends with your high score!

Farewell, 2016! It seems that WebGL was everywhere last year, spreading across every corner of the web. And this added up to PlayCanvas’ best year yet!

Goo Create is a platform for creating WebGL-based interactive web content offered by Goo Technologies. Today, Goo Technologies is announcing an important change to the Goo Create service.

We're proud to announce that Disney has selected PlayCanvas to power their newly launched Hour of Code application. Entitled "Moana: Wayfinding with Code", it's a free online tutorial to teach kids the basics of computer science.

Time for another dev update, WebGL lovers! We've deployed a ton of new features, optimizations and fixes. Here's a run-down of what's new.