Week 2: End-to-End Discovery

Summary

Date: 2020-03-22 to 2020-03-28

• Limitations discovered around:

  • winit event loop and WASM event loop requirements.
  • Web worker threading requirements.
  • Audio loading requirements.
  • Texture loading requirements.

• Assets load from HTTP source using XHRs.

End Result

Implementation

1. Clean up web_worker repository.

   • Move jojolepro/web_worker to amethyst/web_worker
   • Allow constructing thread pool without JavaScript (workers still need worker.js to run).

2. Get dispatcher to execute serially – "no-parallel". (amethyst#2177, amethyst#2189, amethyst#2191)

3. Assets load from server via XmlHttpRequests. (amethyst#2180)

   • Loading texture assets into GL backend. (amethyst#2174)

4. Get GL to render correctly. (amethyst#2198)

5. Update pong_wasm to run. (pong_wasm#3bcf94d)