Features Needed for Mobile Gaming
Games can be written as mobile web apps! A list of things we need in Fennec to enable that:
- Touch events (FF7) bug 544614 - Landed
- Fast WebGL (FF7)
- Fast JavaScript
- Typed array PICs on ARM bug 649202
- Type Inference
- Allow drag touch events (i.e., we don't pan to the sidebars) - Landed
- Web apps
- Fullscreen mode?
- We get this for free with web apps
Game On II: Mobile
Launch: Q4 2011
EOL: Q2 2012
Summary: Host a mobile game developer contest and award the top submissions.
- Goal 1: Showcase Firefox as the platform to build fast, powerful and beautiful mobile web apps
KPI: 30+ submssions, 10 of which are quality examples - Goal 2: Relay HTML5 capabilities to mobile users
KPI: usage and sharing metrics - Goal 3: Host them in the Firefox App Store
Developer Incentives
- Features app in Firefox App Store
- Scholarship to thFirefox Forward mentorship program