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Developer releases source of HTML5 mobile game, sheds light on challenges

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com Mobile game developer Wooga, which for the better part of the past year has been developing a complete mobile game based on HTML5 Web technologies, published the game?s source code on GitHub under an open source software license, adding that while the technology has great potential for gaming, it?s not ready for primetime. The game -- Magic Land Island -- was released as an open source project called Pocket Island. Wooga began developing the game in 2011, when HTML5 was gaining popularity; in fact, the project?s goal was to highlight the capabilities of the standard as an alternative to Flash-based gaming. Yet Wooga said they are giving up on it, at least for now, until HTML5 has more practicality. The decision to dump HTML5 could also undermine the mobile ambitions of social network Facebook and software developer Mozilla, as well as others. In releasing their Pocket Island game as an open source project, Wooga declared ?mission accomplished.? That mission, however, had

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