Co-founded by former Opera engineer Zi Bin Cheah in 2013, Wozlla has developed an IDE (integrated development environment) that allows game and app developers to create powerful, HTML5-based apps in an easier way than ever before. Plenty such HTML5 services exist already, but Cheah said that Wozlla’s IDE is the most sophisticated to date.
Wozlla used its IDE, which is not yet publicly available, to create three titles for Chinese users. The titles are available via QQ Zone, (Tencent’s web-based gaming Service, over 650 million users) while there are also native app versions that share the same HTML5 codebase. HTML5 apps are favorable because they are more easily discovered and shared and translate well to messaging apps, which are hugely popular in Asia.
“There are some skeptics to HTML5, but it’s hot right now in China,” Zi Bin Cheah told in an interview. “There’s a lot of excitement here and we feel that what we are creating proves HTML5 is as good as native. The benefits of web tech, performance (such as frame rates per second), and development speed are all equivalent to native, if not faster.”
HTML5 apps are favorable because they are more easily discovered and shared — i.e. not ‘locked’ inside an app store — and translate well to messaging apps, which are hugely popular in Asia. China’s top chat app, WeChat, has over 500 million active users across the world, mostly in China.
Source: Wozlla, VatorNews and TechCrunch
