[ Developer] Google held (and livestreamed) its Developer Day on the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday. The recording, that is over 8 hours long, is now up for all to view. Dig in. Below is the whole agenda via the GDC site, so that you know what your’e in for. 10:00-10:15amDeveloper Day Kick-Off 10:15-10:45amGrowth Hacking with Play GamesLet’s take a look at tips to harness the incredible growth of Google Play Games to rapidly expand the user base of your game, and the way Play Games assists in discovery, engagement and retention. 10:45-11:15amEngaging All of your CommunityYour player community is stronger once they can all play together. So why are you needlessly dividing them up into arbitrary groups across screens and devices? Let’s examine how Google Play Games is letting all your players play together as one big happy family. 11:15-11:30am Break 11:30-12:00pmMaking Money on Google Play: Best Practices in MonetizationTo prevail, you must learn from the correct. This talk will review commercially... Read More »

[ Developer] Google-based smartwatches were rumored for quite a while, and today, the corporate finally revealed it its platform for such wearables: Android Wear. Android Wear is described as a project that extends Android to “wearables,” and they’re just starting with watches. The corporate is already working with Samsung, Asus, HTC, LG, and Motorola in addition to chip makers Broadcom, Imagination, Intel, Mediatek and Qualcomm. It’s also working with fashion brands just like the Fossil Group. There’s lots of “Ok Google” involved. Test it out: Google says Android Wear will show you info and proposals you’ll need “right if you happen to need them”. You understand, Google Now basically, but from an eye (or whatever else finally ends up utilizing it). But third-party apps will make or break this thing. “The sensible choice of Android applications means you’ll receive the newest posts and updates out of your favorite social apps, chats out of your preferred messaging apps, notifications from shopping, news and photography apps, and... Read More »

[ Developer] In March 2012, Mozilla announced that it was developing a version of Firefox for Windows 8′s Metro UI. The non-profit included Firefox for Metro in its Nightly distribution starting February of last year. In case you became partial to Mozilla’s touch friendly Firefox in that point, you’ll intend to make your peace now. Mozilla announced this morning that development of the Metro version of Firefox has ceased. Actually, the non-profit says that to release a version 1.0 of Firefox Metro “would be a mistake.” So, why kill of the Metro version of Firefox? Two reasons – resources and adoption rates. The 1st is probably crucial as Mozilla notes that its resources don’t seem to be infinite. It has to target what works to compete in a market against juggernauts like Google. That’s why it desires to refocus its teams at the versions of Firefox which could take advantage of difference. As for adoption rates, Mozilla notes that it’s been “pretty flat.” In a... Read More »

[ Developer] Google has released a brand new video about Chromebook Developer Mode. It’s a part of the Google Developers Live series, and lines Google Chromium evangelist Francois Beaufort talking about Developer Mode for Chrome OS, that is different than for Chrome itself. Image via YouTube A Discussion About Chromebook Developer Mode 2 hours ago

[ Developer] HTML5 has come far because it was getting used to render simplistic 2D scenes in a browser. Just last year, Mozilla ported Unreal Engine 3 to Firefox for complex in-browser 3D scenes. Now they’re taking it one step further. Mozilla and Epic Games announced today that the 2 are bringing Unreal Engine 4 to the net through Firefox. Very similar to Unreal Engine 3, UE4 will run via JavaScript using Mozilla’s asm.js subset. They claim that asm.js has increased the performance of Web applications to 67 percent of native and that it’ll get even better. The porting of Unreal Engine 4 is a testament to the facility of the net. “This technology has reached some extent where games users can jump into via an internet link at the moment are almost indistinguishable from ones they may have needed to wait to download and install,” said Brendan Eich, CTO and SVP of Engineering at Mozilla. “Using Emscripten to cross-compile C and C++ into asm.js,... Read More »