Mobile/Fennec/Gaming

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

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