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The section of https://gladius.etherpad.mozilla.org/59 labeled "to file in github issues".

• Links to audio resources
  • Open game art has sounds
  • Working with audio in HTML5
• Useful API docs

• Reformat the tutorial from the example game?
• We could use readthedocs to host this
• Review the comments on the original tutorial
• Consider if/how to add on the opt/deployment bits
• Consider using Thimble

This was done as part of issue #22. I now suspect that .gitignore wasn't causing the problem I thought it was. The glyphicons files, it turns out, were not part of the example game, but came from mortar or perhaps HTML5 boilerplate. Need to investigate.

It would be impolite to risk melting Lost Decade's servers. Also, this is a good chance to exercise our code in-situ before shipping.

We may also want to frame it in the README.

Make sure that the provided instructions in the readme work in both local and internet mode in chrome and firefox, spinning off other issues as needed

It's not totally clear what causes this. Part of the fix may be to make appcache start using the newly landed appcache_path manifest attribute described on https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/Manifest. I suspect there's more going on here than just this, however.

Furthermore, debugging appcache problems in WebRT is harder than in Firefox; I was only able to even diagnose the problems I was having as appcache-related by packet-sniffing. WebRT badly needs debugging tools, including ways to forcibly clear caches, which are part of Firefox, but not framed as part of the Web Developer tools there. This wants a bug or two in Bugzilla, unless such things are already filed/planned.

• Move relevant questions from HTML5-game-template
• Include question about implications for HTML5-game-template
• Add a link to the FAQ in the README

• HTML5 icon should work
• using ghdeploy should yield an app that installs and tests remotely from github
• README.md should guide me through setting up and installing my game as an app (maybe borrow text from example)
  ** for best results use Firefox 16 nightly builds; earlier versions may not work at all

• Should have a simple game loop only
• Should be an earlier stage of the game in the examples

• More completely explains the concrete offerings of the template (perhaps taken from blog post?)
• Reflects change from pure example game to stub + example on the side
• Slightly smooth out extra features lead-in
• Tweak formatting of Open Game Art 2D markdown
• links to tutorial & FAQ
• Is consistent with to-be-update blog post
• Fix WebGameStub InterCaps in last paragraph
• Consider "getting involved" phrasing

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• README.md should be up-to-date
  ** for best results use Firefox 16 nightly builds; earlier versions may not work at all
  ** clarify that a web server must be used and that file: URLs will not work
  *** explain how to test with volo
• manifests for both browsers should be up-to-date
• developers should be credited appropriately in all manifests
• HTML5 icon should be work

• Incorporiate relevant info from old template README.md
• This can be the github README.md page

• Should be small in size (~500 lines of JS?)
  • One possibility:
    • JS: https://github.com/lostdecade/simple_canvas_game/tree/256d456f6dd5ceb6d1825a9fcdea0e046fd47857
    • Tutorial: http://www.lostdecadegames.com/demos/simple_canvas_game/
    • Game: http://www.lostdecadegames.com/demos/simple_canvas_game/
    • License question: lostdecade/simple_canvas_game#1
• Should be a side-scroll (platformer) or top-down

It's because it uses the packages.json from create-responsive-template rather than html5-game-template. Fix is trivial.

• Due to PR lead time, this should be prioritized first

For this, we'll copy the existing game into the examples directory before we factor out the specifics like the game loop for #17.

As it originates upstream (HTML5 boilerplate and possibly minimal-app-template), code is pulled from Google's CDN and Google Analytics by default.

• This can be done by commenting out the HTML5 boilerplate pieces in various copies of index.html as well as the request stuff in app.js.
• The changes to the stub probably want to be offered upstream to minimal-app-template, but the changes to the example game don't, so they should be done in separate commits or possibly even topic branches.

A couple of examples that already exist are @fwenzel's serpent game and our WGS-game-jam goblin enhancement. We could either link to them (with screenshots?) from the README, or create a gallery page, perhaps in the wiki.

And update the README.md to point to that URL rather than the one belonging to dmose.

This change only ever happened on a branch, so as long as we don't merge those commits (and I don't plan to), the only thing that needs fixing is the README.

• Mozilla Markeplace
• Chrome Marketplace
• Update tutorial to show how to publish to marketplaces

• http://lpc.opengameart.org/
• http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html
• http://youcanmakevideogames.com/
• Links from the README

WGS uses setInterval for now, prolly because requestAnimationFrame isn't universally supported yet. It should probably use req.Anim.Fr. but fall back to setInterval.

Example:
https://github.com/fwenzel/serpent/blob/ae745680590437b651d1f4279ba242fbb906a69c/www/js/app.js#L8

Note, I am using 1/60s for setInterval, not sure if that's a good idea or if I should just use setInterval 1 and let the browser iterate as fast as it can.

Until bit-rot sets in, we've got https://air.mozilla.org/apps-templates-dev-ecosystem-tools/.

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• Download from github project page
• README should point to the correct download

Right now, README.md on develop just points to the zipball on develop branch.

This is feedback from @fwenzel from MDN Hack Day. Part of this is probably due to the fact that the formal parameter name to update is "modifier", when it should really be something like timeDeltaInSeconds. We might also want a comment about Date.now returning milliseconds.