basis_universal

The author of the OP also develops Basis, which is designed to take advantage of GPU texture compression formats. GPU formats are efficient in terms of memory space and bandwidth usage, but they have a fixed bits-per-pixel so they're not the most efficient for storage and transmission. There's also a rift between which formats are supported on desktop and mobile GPUs. Basis layers on a second level of variable-bitrate compression which is designed to be efficient to transcode to various compressed GPU formats (for both desktop and mobile) on the fly. https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal Delivering images in a GPU-friendly manner on the web could be a massive memory saver (PNG/JPGs end up being 32 bits-per-pixel in memory, while GPU formats are usually 4bpp or 8bpp) but web standards haven't caught up yet, for now the only way to

Erm, aren't both WebP and PNG rather useless for games? How do you convert those formats on the fly into one of the hardware-compressed texture formats consumed by the GPU (like BCx, ETC or ASTC)? If you're decoding PNG or WebP to one of the linear texture formats, you're wasting a ton of GPU memory and texture sampling bandwidth. (these are probably better alternatives: https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal, or http://www.radgametools.com/oodletexture.htm)