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Perhaps the article could do with a better intro, explaining what PlayCanvas is, for example.

by publicola1990 5y ago

egypturnash 5y ago
https://playcanvas.com/ https://playcanvas.com/ describes itself as “the web-first game engine”. It appears to be yet another attempt to build an Unreal/Unity engine with an integrated editor suite, with “entirely in your browser” as a flagship feature.
- modeless 5y ago
  Also they were acquired by Snap a while ago. They've built a pretty impressive engine IMO. There are some pretty cool games and non-game experiences built on it. Such as https://venge.io https://venge.io
- akritrime 5y ago
  are there any open source one?
  - brylie 5y ago
    Godot engine can export foe Web and has also been ported to run in a Web browser, although the desktop editor is probably more performant/reliable: https://godotengine.org/ https://godotengine.org/ https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/ https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/
  - andybak 5y ago
    To some extent https://www.babylonjs.com/ https://www.babylonjs.com/
  - xNeil 5y ago
    PlayCanvas is MIT-licensed. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine https://github.com/playcanvas/engine
    - freeCandy 5y ago
      Only the engine is open source, the editor used to create the apps/games is not. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine#playcanvas-editor https://github.com/playcanvas/engine#playcanvas-editor
      - ovenchips 5y ago
        It's a bit more complicated than than. The front-end framework that the PlayCanvas Editor is built on (PCUI) is also open source: https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui Other open source tools like the glTF viewer are also built on it: https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-viewer https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-viewer The rest of the Editor code is unminified and unobfuscated. The is done deliberately so devs can write extensions, report bugs and generally understand how it works. More of the Editor codebase will be open sourced over time.

Perhaps the article could do with a better intro, explaining what PlayCanvas is, for example.

https://playcanvas.com/ https://playcanvas.com/ describes itself as “the web-first game engine”. It appears to be yet another attempt to build an Unreal/Unity engine with an integrated editor suite, with “entirely in your browser” as a flagship feature.

modeless 5y ago
Also they were acquired by Snap a while ago. They've built a pretty impressive engine IMO. There are some pretty cool games and non-game experiences built on it. Such as https://venge.io https://venge.io
akritrime 5y ago
are there any open source one?
- brylie 5y ago
  Godot engine can export foe Web and has also been ported to run in a Web browser, although the desktop editor is probably more performant/reliable: https://godotengine.org/ https://godotengine.org/ https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/ https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/latest/
- andybak 5y ago
  To some extent https://www.babylonjs.com/ https://www.babylonjs.com/
- xNeil 5y ago
  PlayCanvas is MIT-licensed. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine https://github.com/playcanvas/engine
  - freeCandy 5y ago
    Only the engine is open source, the editor used to create the apps/games is not. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine#playcanvas-editor https://github.com/playcanvas/engine#playcanvas-editor
    - ovenchips 5y ago
      It's a bit more complicated than than. The front-end framework that the PlayCanvas Editor is built on (PCUI) is also open source: https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui Other open source tools like the glTF viewer are also built on it: https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-viewer https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-viewer The rest of the Editor code is unminified and unobfuscated. The is done deliberately so devs can write extensions, report bugs and generally understand how it works. More of the Editor codebase will be open sourced over time.