Platform/Games

Platform Games

The platform games initiative is made up of a core team whose works is primarily focused on making Firefox the best it can possibly be at running games. The core team is ready to help coordinate with other groups in the community who are working on features or optimization that are important to game developers and provide assistance when needed. 2013 platform development is going to have a big focus on games and we hope you are as excited as we are to make HTML5 rock on both Desktop and Mobile!

Goal

2013 Goals for the platform that relates to games.

• Develop a Benchmarking solution that can run tests against all browser on all target platforms.
• Develop demos to show new game related features in action.
• Improve the platform to the point where mobile games, both 2d and 3d are possible.
• Work to implement and maintain HTML5 standards that are game related.
• Work with all levels of the video game industry to develop the web as a thriving platform for games without plugins using only portable code.

Activity

Projects Currently Underway

• Game Focused Benchmarking
• BananaBread Multi-player (using WebRTC)
• WebAudio Conformance Tests
• IndexedDB File System (posix-like API)
• WebAudio API Rollout Status
• JSIL Porting Tool

Note Worthy Bugs

• bug 716859 - Streaming WebGL Buffers (Double-buffering, etc).
  • Key for WebGL performance on mobile.

• bug 604039 - Gamepad API

Projects slated to start soon

• BananaBread Mobile

Related Projects

• ASM.js
• Emscripten

Duration

• The games team will exist at least until the major obstacle facing game development are overcome. Currently that is expected to last until the end of 2013.

People

Technical Lead	Vladimir Vukicevic (vladimir@mozilla.com) (A)
Product Manager & Program Management	Martin Best (mbest@mozilla.com) (A)
Dedicated Team	Ehsan Akhgari (ehsan@mozilla.com) (R) Jeff Gilbert (jgilbert@mozilla.com) (R) Alan Kligman (akligman@mozilla.com) (R)
Javascript Team Representative	Luke Wagner (Luke Wagner) (R)
Emscripten Project Lead	Dr. Alon Zakai (azakai@mozilla.com) (R)

The letters following each name stand for:

• R = Responsible for deliverable
• A = Accountable for the final decision making on some aspect of the project
• C = Needs to be consulted on key topics
• I = Needs to be kept informed

See reference section for RACI roles system for more information.

References

• AreWeFunYet.org