Game On 2010: Time to Get Your Game On and Check Out 124 Games
For the developers who submitted their games to the Game On 2010 competition, Mozilla Lab’s first international gaming competition open to developers from all over the world who want to create complex and not so complex games with Open Web technologies, the exciting bit is getting their games out there and potentially winning some cool prizes (more on the prizes later).
For the regular user, the exciting part about the Game On 2010 competition – which was launched as a means to kick off the Mozilla Labs Gaming Initiative, an initiative that focuses on games developed, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser – is getting to check out all the various games the developers mentioned above game up with.
According to Julie Shin Choi, who manages the Game On 2010 competition for Mozilla Labs, a grand total of 160 games have been submitted to Mozilla by eager developers who wanted to take part in the Game On 2010 competition. Out of those 160 submissions, 36 have been discarded; the remaining 124 games are now available in the Game On Gallery.
You can now go to the Game On Gallery and check out a grand total of 124 games, games built with Open Web Technologies, games that work across platforms and modern web browsers.
If you register on the Game On 2010 site, you can rate the games showcased in the gallery. Rating is necessary so Mozilla can award the Community Choice prize.
Here are the prizes the developers who submitted their games could wind.
The best overall game will win these prizes:
The best technology, best web-iness, best aesthetics, most original, best polish, most fun, and community choice games will get the following prizes:
For the regular user, the exciting part about the Game On 2010 competition – which was launched as a means to kick off the Mozilla Labs Gaming Initiative, an initiative that focuses on games developed, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser – is getting to check out all the various games the developers mentioned above game up with.
According to Julie Shin Choi, who manages the Game On 2010 competition for Mozilla Labs, a grand total of 160 games have been submitted to Mozilla by eager developers who wanted to take part in the Game On 2010 competition. Out of those 160 submissions, 36 have been discarded; the remaining 124 games are now available in the Game On Gallery.
You can now go to the Game On Gallery and check out a grand total of 124 games, games built with Open Web Technologies, games that work across platforms and modern web browsers.
If you register on the Game On 2010 site, you can rate the games showcased in the gallery. Rating is necessary so Mozilla can award the Community Choice prize.
Here are the prizes the developers who submitted their games could wind.
The best overall game will win these prizes:
- Trip to GDC 2011
- Featured in Firefox 4 Gallery: Promote your game to over 400M people who use Firefox
- Game logo or other design asset created by Mozilla Principal Designer Sean Martell
- Special Edition Mozilla Swag
- Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5: Industry-leading web design software, an outstanding visual HTML editor and superb code editor.
- Guest blog post on Yahoo! Games & 1-hour consultation with Greg Cohn, head of product for Y! Games, free game download
- Think Vitamin Silver Membership: Learn Web design & development through 100s of high quality video courses and online conferences to keep you on the cutting edge
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 460: Tailor made to hit the gamers’ sweet spot, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 delivers revolutionary levels of price/performance.
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, signed by the creator of jQuery, John Resig
- Special Edition Game On T-Shirt, signed by the inventor JavaScript, Brendan Eich
- Tandem 18,000 foot skydive w/ video and stills (optional)
- Buckyballs!
The best technology, best web-iness, best aesthetics, most original, best polish, most fun, and community choice games will get the following prizes:
- Awesome games will be featured in the Firefox 4 Gallery
- Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5
- Guest blog post on Yahoo! Games
- Think Vitamin Silver Membership
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, signed by the creator of jQuery, John Resig
- Special Edition Game On T-Shirt, signed by the inventor JavaScript, Brendan Eich
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 (only for 3D games)
- Special Edition Mozilla Swag
- Buckyballs!
