Apps are Boring! Games are Fun!

William Reynolds, @dailycavalier

Apps are Boring! Games are Fun!

firefox phone William Reynolds, Mozilla, AppDays 2013, Manila, Philippines, 01/27/2013

Who was supposed to talk

tofumatt

Say hi to @tofumatt

about:william

William eating Balut

I am @dailycavalier

Make something different

To do list

Creating apps

Is There a Giants Game Today?

Is There a Giants Game Today?

Remember your first game?

Captain Comic

Captain Comic

What game would you play?

Scrabble

So many game types

  • Board / card games
  • Puzzles
  • Arcade games
  • Sports
  • Educational
  • Community

HTML5 beyond the hype…

Hype cycle

The hype cycle

The great things about HTML5

  • Promotion of HTML to an application platform
  • World-wide availability without waiting for hardware
  • Flexibility - give users what their environment can stomach
  • Simple development environment - just start writing
  • Simple deployment - put it on a server and you're done

One size fits all?

lots of devices

Times change…

The Obama Family 2009 and 2013 - everyone reading on phones

Firefox OS - we're on it!

Firefox OS

Get ready to level up

Level up

Change an existing game

Level up

Run Little Boy, Run!

Create a 3D game

BananaBread

BananaBread

Technologies

Your games can access phones

Hardware blowup

http://arewemobileyet.com

Game templates

Make a classic game

Snake clone

Serpent

Create silly games

Make Bacon

Make Bacon

Developer tools

Firefox devtools

Simulator in the browser

Simulator

Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here!

Also works on Android

Foxkeh loves android

To market, to market…

Firefox marketplace

Firefox Marketplace

Taking markets to the web…

The search interface of Firefox OS

Resources

The time is now, the place is here…

Today is the tomorrow you expected yesterday

Shaun Tan: the lost thing

Off you go, make awesome!

outside your comfort zone is where the magic happens

Thanks

that's all firefox