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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 • Input • Platform UI (e.g. friend selector) • (Hosted on our CDN)

Our Goals Problems we want to solve Problems we would like help with • Instant Games need to be able to • High game fidelity is harder to achieve monetize effectively on Instant Games (graphics, input) • Instant Games should be able to tap • Battery life, crashing issues, into a social network in order to be performance played together • Protecting assets in developer’s games • Instant Games should be developed by trusted developers and be positive experiences for players

Notable issues for Instant Game developers • Device capabilities are difficult to • Caching and loading game assets infer, which makes crashes more likely intelligently (e.g. out of memory) • WASM mobile support and tooling for • Webviews aren’t at feature parity debugging with browsers (web workers, getUserMedia) • IP protection for game developers (assets are more easily stolen from web games)

Questions? chrishawkins@fb.com