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Jan 25, 2023 126 likes •191 views

Perspective on Web Game Tech from the Instant Games team Chris Hawkins Partner Engineer, Facebook Quick Intro to Instant Games Game Facebook JS BRIDGE WEBVIEW NATIVE Game logic Authentication Graphics Ads Audio IAP

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Perspective on Web Game Tech from the Instant Games team

Chris Hawkins Partner Engineer, Facebook

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Quick Intro to Instant Games

Game

WEBVIEW

Facebook

NATIVE JS BRIDGE

Game logic
Graphics
Audio
Input
(Hosted on our

CDN)

Authentication
Ads
IAP
Platform UI (e.g.

friend selector)

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Our Goals

Problems we want to solve

Instant Games need to be able to

monetize effectively

Instant Games should be able to tap

into a social network in order to be played together

Instant Games should be developed

by trusted developers and be positive experiences for players Problems we would like help with

High game fidelity is harder to achieve
n Instant Games (graphics, input)
Battery life, crashing issues,

performance

Protecting assets in developer’s games

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Notable issues for Instant Game developers

Device capabilities are difficult to

infer, which makes crashes more likely (e.g. out of memory)

Webviews aren’t at feature parity

with browsers (web workers, getUserMedia)

IP protection for game developers

(assets are more easily stolen from web games)

Caching and loading game assets

intelligently

WASM mobile support and tooling for

debugging

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