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is huge, and all the developers realize that Facebook, "says founder Ben Savage

Thurs Many developers speak the potential of the platform games that run on the iPhone, Android and maybe even on Facebook. Relatively few do. The growing interest around HTML5 can stimulate several attempts, however, especially if the rumors Facebook Spartan project is as ambitious as expected.

A company hopes to help developers transition from the Californian company Sibblingz. It is promoting its platform spaceport as a means for developers of JavaScript code in their games, then convert them into HTML-based applications on different mobile platforms and Social 5.

"Mobile is huge, and all the developers realize that Facebook," says founder Ben Savage. "On Facebook, the growth appears to have decreased, but the mobile is going to blow. There are two million people with mobile devices, and the game is one of the greatest things. It will be a huge market, and developers realized that Facebook is where they have to move. They just need to what to do. "

Savage said Facebook has not yet provided the bridge of the mobile internet for these developers: they can use their Facebook Connect API to take advantage of graphics social actors, but the platform of Facebook application she did not have a mobile aspect. Spartan project is expected to change that, of course.

Savage also stressed the interest to developers of mobile games are already HTML5 as a way to get rid of the restrictions that Apple, Google and other companies that the imposition of control over their stores and Developers ecosystems.

"The main reason is that the industry is looking forward to HTML5 has a contest for the monolithic approach," he said. "An application store is very doubtful for the distribution of IOS or games to Android: people in the Top 10, stay there and not a real problem to find the root of the problem is stored and order form based. in popularity. HTML5 bring much needed perspective to this. "

Yes, Savage could say that, having founded a company whose business is to provide the tools to easily create games HTML5. The company raised a seed round of $ 500,000 Youweb incubator in 2008 - the same company that brought new businesses and OpenFeint CrowdStar - before taking another $ 1 million in August 2011 to continue the development and commercialization Spaceport

said it addresses a strong need for the industry as companies seek skills HTML5. "It is very difficult to hire talented developers, and especially difficult for brand new technologies like HTML 5," Savage said.

"Our technology is an excellent solution to this problem. We try to ensure that people with expertise in building Flash games can apply this set of skills to build games immediately HTML5, with their contents with them. There is great value in providing this path of transition. "

Sibblingz Savage also points out that if the spaceport and other tools, as they do their work, the resulting wave of mobile game developers of Facebook is likely to stick to the free- to-play model that has been so profitable in the social network. "They are those who understand the business model," he said.