Abusing Firefox OS

and HTML5 games

for fun and profit

onGameStart 2013

Andrzej Mazur / @end3r / Enclave Games
Warsaw, September 20th 2013

About me

Andrzej Mazur

Case study - Captain Rogers

https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/captain-rogers Captain Rogers

Andrzej Mazur (coding, Enclave Games)
Robert Podgórski (graphics, Blackmoon Design)

Rogers story

  • Very simple, but polished game
  • Built with ImpactJS game engine
  • Prepared and optimized for Firefox OS devices
  • Submitted to the Marketplace in minutes

Firefox OS

Firefox OS

  • Mobile operating system
  • Developed by Mozilla
  • Pure HTML5 and JavaScript
  • Open sourced
  • Freely customizable
  • Targeted for low-end devices
  • "New old" ecosystem

Wrapping up

  • Easy to build for
  • Easy to publish
  • No limitations by the platform
  • You build for the Web, not for the Firefox OS
  • Firefox OS App == Web App

Js13kGames

winners announcement

js13kGames

Js13kGames - what's this?

Js13kGames website
  • HTML5 game dev compo
  • 13 kilobytes limit
  • No externals, all in .zip
  • Source hosted on GitHub
  • $20.000 worth of prizes
  • August 13th - September 13th

10th place

Life of Blobb by Alex Gyoshev

9th place

untitled13 by Gheja

8th place

Staccato by Siorki

7th place

Origin by Evan Hahn

6th place

Glowbougs by Mr Speaker

5th place

Traffic by Krisztián Tóth

4th place

Nigo's Cave by Felipe Alfonso

3rd place

Angry Boars by Saturnyn

2nd place

JunoJS by Robert Kotecki

1st place

Radius Raid by Jack Rugile

Thanks!

Andrzej Mazur / @end3r / Enclave Games

Ender Efka @end3r