Mobile development using web technologies focusing on games

Abstract

Games are typically challenging applications to develop and they are omnipresent in the mobile platforms. Besides the hardware limitations and heterogeneity of mobiles, we are experiencing a "software platform epoch". Platforms like iOS, Android and Windows Phone offer to developers complete hermetic environments, which come with compatibility side effects, constraining applications to be reimplemented in order to address each platform. One of the most promising approaches to face this platform battle is based on the combination of Web technologies -- HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript -- to produce platform-independent applications for mobiles. The question here is how to achieve the balance between independence and performance, required by games. This mini-course gives an overview of this scenario focusing in aspects addressed to game development.