daredevildave

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CEO and co-founder of Auto https://auto.inc - personal apps for your camera Previously Eng. Director for Games/Minis/Bitmoji at Snap Previously co-founder at http://playcanvas.com

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Comment · 1 year ago

That's a fun game. I made an anagram game myself a few years ago.

https://conundrum.fun/

Seeing some of the other comments reminded me that most of the work went into trimming the word lists so that it wasn't rude or randomly impossibly difficult.

Comment · 2 years ago

Support for Javascript modules looks like it is in-progress: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/issues/4767

Developing offline with the engine-only (https://github.com/playcanvas/engine) is obviously an option, but I wouldn't hold your breath for an offline editor.

Comment · 2 years ago

They unlock a lot of advanced graphics techniques that are too slow to do CPU-side but work well in parallel on GPU. It's a pretty wide variety of things, but e.g. lighting, mesh manipulation, terrain, voxels, post-processing.

Comment · 2 years ago

I can't wait for compute shaders to be widely available on the web!

Comment · 5 years ago

PlayCanvas[0] is the probably the closest "web-first" solution compared to Unity. Used by lots of Snap Games & Instant Games. It's written in JS which means that it's way smaller ~350kB for an empty scene if I recall.

[0] https://playcanvas.com

Robostorm – fast-paced multiplayer game using WebGL/PlayCanvas robostorm.io

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GPU performance for Game Artists fragmentbuffer.com

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Comment · 9 years ago

It's worth checking out PlayCanvas for the asset pipeline. Texture compression is supported directly in the editor. https://blog.playcanvas.com/webgl-texture-compression-made-e...

Comment · 9 years ago

Clara.io is a modelling, animation and rendering tool (in the style of Maya/Max/Blender)

PlayCanvas is a game engine (in the style of Unity/Unreal)

To put it another way. You build your 3D assets in Clara and import them into PlayCanvas to add interactivity.

Comment · 9 years ago

And a handy link for anyone who wants to check out PlayCanvas: https://playcanvas.com

Comment · 10 years ago

>"but there's no real "game engine" for them along the same lines as Unity/Unreal"

https://playcanvas.com/

Comment · 10 years ago

Define large? You need a graphics driver more recent than Jan 1, 2009.

And slow compared to what? Flash? Canvas 2D?

Comment · 10 years ago

Please don't associate WebGL being bad with Unity being bad at exporting to WebGL...

PlayCanvas is generating WebGL games that run on mobile and download in only a few megabytes. You can generate great WebGL games today.

Comment · 10 years ago

And if you want to use a WebGL engine with gamma correct rendering... https://playcanvas.com ;-)

http://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/designer/sett...

Comment · 10 years ago

Especially if you want to support mobile: http://blog.playcanvas.com/playcanvas-versus-unity-webgl/