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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: | 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: | ||
* | * '''Developers using C++''': These developers are highly skilled, often working on the best stuff, and have until now been largely excluded from the Web. They will largely look at the Web as another port target and will want to know what their limitations are. They will also want to focus on how to integrate tools such as Emscripten into their tool chains. It is safe to assume a very high level of knowledge for this group. | ||
* | * '''Web Developers using JavaScript or Flash''': These developers are looking for the most web-friendly way to proceed, including how to port games across, say from Flash to JavaScript. They will have highly varying levels of skill and will likely want to start with 2D canvas and move their way up to WebGL. Libraries and tools will be particularly important for this group as well as transition documents explaining the fundamentals of the more complicated graphics technologies. They will not have the skills needed to make the most performance-optimized games without the help of middleware in most cases. | ||
* Hobbyists | * '''Newbies/Hobbyists''': These are developers or students that have never touched game development for the most part. This group will be interested in hackable games initiatives and what not. We should make sure to remember this group although they should not be a primary focus in the short term. | ||
Note: Artists are not a group we need to focus on particularly, past potential topics relating to how to export to the web and what features are supported. Most of this can be communicated via the technical audiences above as they are usually tasked with figuring this out on behalf of the artists. | |||
== Where will this project live? == | == Where will this project live? == | ||