Projects and configuration
Registered workspaces, project identity, settings layers, and model routing.
A game development IDE.
With the project in view.
PlayWeld combines an Eclipse Theia desktop workspace with a local platform service. Bring design records, native game files, connected tools, and supervised AI work into one Control Room.
Your tools keep their jobs.
PlayWeld connects the workflow.
The IDE organizes the project and records the work. Your engine still owns its native game, your authoring tools still produce their source assets, and providers supply the models you configure. PlayWeld.com is the knowledgebase, free marketplace, and information hub for that system.
Engine support has layers.
Work with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot alongside your installed tools. Inspect native files, headless executables, and identity-verified live bridges as separate capabilities.
A registered executable is useful configuration. The evidence that matters is the named operation, its result, and the artifact or test it produced.
Understand engine connections
AI work you can follow.
Configure provider accounts and eligible models, then move bounded requests from Chat to Swarm. Inspect questions, approvals, isolated changes, and integration evidence before accepting a result.
Thirty bundled game-development skills cover planning, implementation, art, testing, and delivery. Skills provide guidance; roles and access policy govern responsibility and execution.
Review an agent workflow
Keep the source close to the answer.
Use Discussion Board to explore changes and explicitly adopt decisions. Reconcile project documents into Knowledge and inspect source paths, excerpts, and citations when searching.
Lexical retrieval works with indexed text. Semantic and hybrid workflows have separate embedding and vector-store prerequisites.
Explore knowledge and citations
Find the right part of your workflow.
Work and decisions
Conversations, supervised tasks, approvals, adopted rules, and cited retrieval.
Tools and assets
Engine layers, authoring tools, external connections, reviewed assets, and extensions.
Care and recovery
Inspectable operation history, verified archives, separate restores, and release verification.
Before you get started
What is PlayWeld?
PlayWeld is a free, open-source game development IDE built on Eclipse Theia. Its local platform service maintains project, task, routing, integration, discussion, and audit records. The project is licensed under Apache-2.0.
Does PlayWeld replace my game engine?
Install and configure your engine separately, then prepare valid native files in your PlayWeld project. Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, and other connected tools retain their own licenses and requirements.
Does the IDE run in this website?
The desktop IDE runs on your computer. The screenshots show the repository's actual development browser target connected to an isolated service; that target is for development and verification.
Does locally run mean every AI request stays offline?
Project and platform records are local. Your configured model or asset provider can be a remote service and may receive the context needed by a request. Review the endpoint, credentials, context, and cost before using it.
What do the screenshots demonstrate?
They show real Control Room screens and workflow records with a disposable Lantern Workshop project. Model responses and generated-asset examples use local scripted fixtures. Captions distinguish configuration, completed workflow checks, and native-tool acceptance.
How do marketplace packages work?
Browse free published packages, inspect compatibility, and download a release for its package type. Direct website-to-desktop installation is planned. Start with the installation guide.