Big news for PlayCanvas developers: your games can now run inside Snapchat! 馃帀 With Snapchat Web Lenses, you can build a game with PlayCanvas, upload it as a Lens and put it in front of a huge audience of Snapchatters who love to play.
In this post, we'll explain what Web Lenses are, show off four of the first PlayCanvas games on Snapchat and walk you through building and publishing your own.
Since introducing PlayCanvas, we've seen developers the world over build amazing 3D experiences using the PlayCanvas Engine and Editor. But what if you are a React developer?
Today we're proud to announce the release of PlayCanvas React, a new declarative way to build 3D content using React.
PlayCanvas React is a thin React wrapper around the PlayCanvas API. It allows you to build rich 3D content in a declarative way that fully integrates with the React ecosystem. You can create rich, complex 3D content with assets, physics, gaussian splats, audio, and more, all while leveraging the powerful state management of React.
Check out the CodeSandbox below. Slide open the code editor and play with the code in real time.
Today marks a major milestone for the PlayCanvas Engine, the open-source JavaScript runtime that powers thousands of interactive graphical apps and tools on the web. We are bubbling with excitement to announce the release of version 2.0.0!
Hi everyone!
This is a different blog post to what we normally do but with some big changes coming soon, we wanted to give context and advance notice of said changes and more importantly, how they may affect you across the PlayCanvas platform.
Since 2011, the PlayCanvas engine sourcebase has adhered strictly to the ES5 JavaScript specification. Since then, the JavaScript language and the surrounding tools ecosystem has moved on considerably. But PlayCanvas has steadfastly stuck to ES5. Why? Internet Explorer 11.
IE11 was released on October 17, 2013. But even today, StatCounter reports that IE11 has 2.43% of the global desktop browser market. Since PlayCanvas content is viewed by 100s of millions of end users, this is a pretty big deal.
PlayCanvas was born 7 years ago, way back on 9th May 2011. In the early days, we were essentially prototyping, seeing what this amazing new WebGL API could do. By October 2011, we set up a source code repository and committed our first engine prototype. Right at the beginning, we adopted semantic versioning聽for naming our releases. Our initial commit generated engine v0.10.0. From that point onwards, we adopted a rapid release cadence, often publishing more than one release a week. The months and years passed, our team grew and feature after feature was integrated into the codebase. But through all that time, we never incremented the major version number. Why? Well, there were several reasons.
We've just launched "Scripts 2.0", a complete聽re-design and re-implementation of the scripting system for PlayCanvas applications. Our goals were to fix an array of small irritations that had built up over using the PlayCanvas scripting聽for the last few years and take the opportunity to clean up the interface and simplify聽the creation and usage of scripts.
May is drawing to a close and it's starting to feel like summer here in London. Let's celebrate with a PlayCanvas Dev Update! We've been busy bees, so here's a rundown of the main changes.
Today we're pleased to聽update the聽engine and tools with a new Asset API.聽We've finessed the聽API to make it more intuitive and also added some extra features to make it easier for you to聽preload or stream in assets at any stage of your application.
This post should introduce some of the new APIs, plus give you an upgrade guide for areas of the API which have changed.
With the latest engine changes released today (v0.164.0), we're streamlining our API to make it quicker and easier for you to get started with PlayCanvas. Less API to remember, more time coding your game.