Submit a Code Contribution to PlayCanvas and Win $1000

[willeastcott]

Happy New Year everyone. To kick off 2021, I thought I would announce a little competition to submit the best PR in January to the open source PlayCanvas WebGL game engine! $1000 prize money.

See the Twitter announcement here:

For inspiration, check out some of the previously merged PRs in the repo:

https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

A particularly cool submission from the last month or two was area lights:

https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2535

But the PR can be anything:

• Bug fix
• Documentation improvement/addition
• Refactor
• New feature

Feel free to get creative. Submissions are due by midnight on Jan 31st and I'll announce the winner on 1st Feb. Good luck!

Edited January 4, 2021 by willeastcott

[willeastcott]

36 hours left to submit a pull request to win a cool $1000. That’s like a PS5 Disc Edition AND an Xbox Series X (but yeah, spend it however you like!) ??

Currently submitted PRs are:

• https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2785
• https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2767
• https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2733
• https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2698
• https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2673

If you’ve submitted a PR and don’t see it listed, let me know.

Some answers to common questions:

1. Can you submit more than 1 PR? Yes! Although 1 bigger PR has an advantage over 2 smaller PRs.
2. What makes a PR eligible? It must be opened sometime in January. It doesn’t need to have been merged.
3. My PR was closed without being merged - is it eligible? Yes! Because it’s the thought that counts. ?

Announcing the winner on Monday. Good luck!