A $5 million gamble: Spil Games sets up new fund for developers making HTML5 games

Online-gaming publisher Spil Games is making a $5 million bet on HTML5 gaming in the next year. The company announced today that it will create a fund that will sponsor developers looking to create HTML5 games.

Spil is looking for studios that want to create games as well as developers that wish to port existing work to HTML5. Unlike most other game-programming languages, HTML5 is cross-platform and will work on any device that has an HTML5-capable web browser. This is opposed to “native apps,” which developers have to custom-build for every OS (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux). This means that gamers can get to a title just by tapping in a web address in addition to downloading an HTML5 game from an app market.