Google I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit

Well, I came to Google via an acquisition in 2010, I worked for years on the GWT (Google Web Toolkit) compiler, and related web compilation tooling. Then I switched to the Apps team (Inbox and Gmail) for a few years. Now I work in Research and Machine Intelligence. I'm not on the Chrome audio team, but I have had experience with Chrome Audio, as I implemented an OpenAL layer for GwtQuake and the web version of Angry Birds for Chrome using it. See ▶ this video for example PlayN, a cross-platform (Web, Android, iOS, Flash) library I worked on in 20% time, and link which details some early experiments with image processing, and the porting of Quake to Chrome in 2010.

It was originally shown off as ForPlay at Google I/O '11. Here is a video of the talk: ▶ this video I'm really glad they changed the framework name too =D

Another option, if you're a Java programmer and want to reuse existing Java libraries you've written: link which is the library initially developed to port Angry Birds to HTML5 (although it's true purpose was to allow Web and Android simultaneous development) This is a multiplatform API for 2D games. It runs as native Dalvik code on Android with a GL backend. On the Web, it runs as JS using GWT for compilation, and either a Canvas or a WebGL backend. For flash, it uses the link addon for the GWT compiler to produce SWFs. For iOS, it uses iKVM to run Java bytecode on Monotouch. I believe the same code can also run on the XBox and perhaps Windows phone. Box2D is builtin. See link for ▶ this video for a longer presentation I did at Google I/O.

I'm no developer but I recently watched the ForPlay speech at Google I/O and it sounded promising: link ForPlay is a cross-platform game abstraction library for writing games that compile to: Desktop Java HTML5 Browsers Android Flash ▶ this video