Mobile/Fennec/Gaming

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+ submissions, 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

Planning

Chat with:

• Morgamic (webdev)
• Jason Grlicky (web design)
• Pascal (Game On 1 sponsor)
• Julie (Game On 1 project manager)
• Dees (partnerships)
• Creative
• Legal
• James Socol (webdev)
• Thomas (mobile)
• Alon (mobile)

Content: etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/GameOn2Content

Feature Requirements

Games can be written as mobile web apps! A list of things we need in Fennec to enable that:

• Touch events (FF7) - Landed
  
• Fast WebGL
  
• Fast JavaScript
  
• Typed array PICs on ARM
  
• Type Inference
  
• Allow drag touch events (i.e., we don't pan to the sidebars) -Landed
  
• Web apps (FF8?)
  
• Fullscreen mode?
  We get this for free with web apps
  
  

WebDev

We'd like to recycle the design and framework from the previous Labs - Game On site: https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/

• Requirement: Touch friendly site design for mobile viewing and gaming

Developer Incentives

• Features app in Firefox App Store
  
• Scholarship to thFirefox Forward mentorship program
• Possible prizes: Comic Con, mobile devices, video cards, gaming consoles

The Team

• Product Owner: Jaclyn Fu
  
• Technical Project Manager: TBD
  
• Mobile Resource: Alon
  
• Web developers: TBD
  
• Labs Resource: TBD