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by ajdegol 2146 days ago
I think the engine is open source; but the real appeal is using the real time collab online tool, which is proprietary and had the drawbacks you mention.
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rewq4321 2146 days ago
The engine absolutely is open source, and there are no clauses pertaining to where the code must be hosted.

Their particular IDE may be closed-source, but the engine is not tied to it.

IIRC playcanvas was started by ex-mozilla people.

I played around with the engine a while ago and was quite impressed by the all-in-one-ness of it.

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ovenchips 2146 days ago
PlayCanvas was started by ex-EA/Activision/Sony devs. But Mozilla partnered with PlayCanvas to open source the engine and later launch Firefox's WebGL 2 support with the After the Flood demo: http://aftertheflood.playcanvas.com/
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rewq4321 2146 days ago
Ahh, thank you for the correction.
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