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rvz | karma 7775 | avg karma 1.08 · 2020-08-01 11:51:01

Interesting to see that PlayCanvas is now owned by Snap Inc recently: [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/snap-reportedly-buys-its-o...

socialist_coder | karma 2030 | avg karma 2.82 · 2020-08-01 16:17:19+00:00

I wonder how this has affected the development of PlayCanvas. I don't see any statements about the acquisition or even just a roadmap or statement about the future.

It looks like Snap bought it + a game studio and then launched a few html5 games inside of Snapchat. But I dont see anything after that. Seems like maybe gaming inside of snapchat just fizzled out? That doesn't bode well for PlayCanvas development...

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endergen | karma 960 | avg karma 2.31 · 2020-08-01 16:37:40+00:00

Their lenses I think are all JavaScript, not sure if it’s WebGl rendering though, but it would make sense to do that to be cross platform

mrmaxm | karma 100 | avg karma 5.88 · 2020-08-01 19:45:28

Check out on blog of released major features and releases on github for the engine. It is only growing.