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PlayCanvas

Cloud-based WebGL game development platform

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Overview

What PlayCanvas does

PlayCanvas is a cloud-based game development platform for creating WebGL games in your browser. It features real-time collaboration and instant deployment.

What people use it for

  • Building WebGL games and interactive 3D that run in a browser
  • Browser based collaborative 3D editing across a team
  • Web AR and VR experiences, product configurators and playable ads

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about PlayCanvas.

  • Private projects require a paid plan; the Free plan only allows public projects
  • The Free plan is capped at 1GB of storage, Personal at 10GB and Organization at 50GB
  • Personal costs $15 per month and Organization costs $50 per seat per month
  • Team management is only available on the Organization plan
  • Private projects become locked and inaccessible if the subscription is cancelled, unless they are made public
  • There is no formal educational discount
  • There is no self serve trial of the Personal or Organization plan; an upgrade code must be requested from sales

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Pricing

What PlayCanvas costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • Cloud editor
  • WebGL export
  • Community projects
  • Basic support

Pro

$19 /mo

  • Private projects
  • Advanced features
  • Priority support

Capabilities

Features

  • Cloud-based editor

    Cloud-based editor capability

  • Real-time collaboration

    Real-time collaboration capability

  • WebGL rendering

    WebGL rendering capability

  • Physics engine

    Physics engine capability

  • Visual scripting

    Visual scripting capability

  • Asset library

    Asset library capability

  • Version control

    Version control capability

  • Instant deployment

    Instant deployment capability

  • GitHub

    Integration with GitHub

  • Slack

    Integration with Slack

  • GitHub Copilot

    Integration with GitHub Copilot

  • Cloud security

    Cloud security security feature

Behind it

Who makes PlayCanvas

Company
PlayCanvas Inc
Based in
Cambridge, UK
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