Even As HTML5 Gaming Skepticism Remains, Ludei Pushes An App To Seven Stores Simultaneously

Even though Facebook admitted that their detour into HTML5 didn’t fully pay off for their mobile strategy, a host of startups like Ludei and GameClosure are still betting on the technology. They’re hoping that increasing complexity of dealing with all those Android devices plus new iOS formats, along with improvements in HTML5 standards will eventually make it viable for game developers. Ludei, a San Francisco-based company, said today that it pushed a single game called iBasket to a seven different app stores from a single codebase today. They’re running all HTML5 versions of the game on iOS, Google Play, Amazon’s app store, the Nook store, Facebook, Firefox and Chrome from single a code base. “There’s a perception that HTML5 kind of failed us, or that we failed it,” said Eneko Knorr, Ludei’s CEO and founder. “There was a lot of negativity.” He said while Ludei has about 1,500 active projects on the platform, the company wanted to do a proof of concept with an app. So they took their most successful game, iBasket, which has had 15 million downloads, and revamped it to work on seven different stores and platforms simultaneously. “If we’re going to convince people that this is a reality, we can’t wait for other developers to finish their games in 90 to 150 days,” he said. “We wanted to do this now.” They also face competition from GameClosure, which made its developer kit public last week and is backed by more than $12 million in venture funding. Then there are a number of cross-platform tools providers like Spaceport and Marmalade. iBasket is a game that runs at 60 frames-per-second and Ludei’s layer includes payments, advertising and social features like multi-player mode. There are extended APIs that boost performance, a game engine called CAAT, extensions for push notifications, and a cloud service to manage updates and analytics. “In real time, you’ll get back these seven packages — APKs (Android application package file) for Amazon and Google Play, an iOS app store package. We’re an infrastructure component and we can also provide a game engine,” said Ludei’s president, Joe Monastiero, who saw Intel acquire parts of of his previous startup appMobi yesterday. The company says that more than 150 HTML5 games have been built from the platform including Onslaught Defense and Lunch Bug from Lost Decade Games, Rhino Hero from shortblackmocca and Ready to Roll from D Lewis. The

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