MDN/Projects/Content/Game Developer Zone

Project statement

Games are a really big deal.

Everyone loves games, but in addition games are a big statement for, and testimony to, the scope and power of open web standards. A constant criticism leveled at the open web is that it doesn't have the performance available to support complex applications such as 3D immersive games, as compared to native platforms. However, Mozilla's work on technologies such as ASM.js, Emscripten and WebGL has shown that open standards have got what it takes, and playing such games in a web browser is perfectly possible.

At the moment, MDN has a few bits of games development documentation, but nothing comprehensive or complete. This project is aimed at creating a kick ass games documentation center, which will serve the needs of both experienced game developers who want to create for the open web, and experienced web programmers who want to know what their platform is capable of.

Where will this project live?

Ideally we should eventually aim to put this content in its own dedicated zone

Random notes

J-Y - documentation needed for techs like WebRTC. We probably need basics in the context of games, for people writing their first game. But then we need reference docs in place for people who are more experienced. So not just WebRTC for gaming tutorials, but also solid WebRTC ref docs. Need to sync their publication as much as possible. Mark: lots of devs interested in gaming. James long did game apps, for example. We would need to cover Firefox OS app games, versus desktop games, using multiple devices on one game.

We should perhaps flesh out existing zones now, to see what we can do with them, before making any decisions about whether to make further zones, e.g. games