Shipping Progressive Web Apps everywhere
For the past five years BBC Children’s & Education have been building interactive games and experiences with JavaScript and HTML5. This enables us to ship games to any platform with a modern web runtime. We work with agencies to commission new games and experiences for the many brands that we have.
We have around 300+ games, some of which are distributed via our five mobile apps on iOS and Android and others are embedded across www.bbc.co.uk.
We optimise ourselves around being cross-platform. Designing our organisational structure to make bringing new content into our portfolio as painless as possible, and good value for money.
We maintain multiple in-house game engines. These enable agencies to build various different game mechanics effortlessly with varying fidelities, whilst building abstractions and delivery pipelines so the games can be delivered to multiple platforms rapidly.
Delivering these HTML5 games to the web is fairly straightforward. We fetch the content from S3 and pop it into the DOM, each game shares a common API interface that is configured at runtime, allowing the host platform to inject its own implementations…
