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Phaser vs PlayCanvas: What are the differences?

What is Phaser? Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools.

What is PlayCanvas? A visual development platform for interactive web content. It is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface.

Phaser and PlayCanvas can be categorized as "Game Development" tools.

Phaser is an open source tool with 25.6K GitHub stars and 6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Phaser's open source repository on GitHub.

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Compile to iOS, Android and native apps
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JavaScript or TypeScript
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WebGL and Canvas rendering
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Open Source

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What is Phaser?

It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools.

What is PlayCanvas?

It is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface.

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