Mozilla Game On

Fair warning: participate for the fun, not for the prizes. Mozilla ran a competition like this in 2010. My game "Favimon" won the "Most Original" category. I never did receive most of the prizes they claimed all winners received, including a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5, a guest post on the Yahoo! Games blog, a Think Vitamin sponsorship, and John Resig's "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" book. This was despite many polite inquiries to the competition organizer. Overall I thought the competition was excellent, but Mozilla's lacklustre follow-up afterwards was disappointing.

Hey there! I'm Chloe, the organiser for this year's Game On competition. I wanted to let you know that changes have been made this time around to ensure <i>all</i> the prizes are delivered on time. We hope to see you join us this year!

I've seen competitions like this before, but I've never had the time to commit to submitting anything. The rules and guidelines for this particular competition seem simple, straight-forward enough. I fear I, again, won't find the time to participate.<p>I will have to remember to check back in on this, to see what everyone came up with.

Anyone on HN want to cooperate with me on a game for this competition? I've created some HTML5 games previously, also participated in the previous Mozilla Gameon (with Freeciv.net), and think this sounds like a lot of fun! Feel free to post game-proposals in this thread.<p>Twitter: @andreasrosdal

Apologies for the shameless plug:<p>If anyone is interested in making a game for Game On, you might be interested in using PlayCanvas (<a href="http://playcanvas.com" rel="nofollow">http://playcanvas.com</a>) to do so. Our CEO, Will, spoke at the Mozilla Game Jam in London at the weekend.<p>We're making a HTML5 game development environment in your browser. Features: 3D engine, real-time collaboration on scenes; game-scripting in javascript; art-pipeline for Blender, 3DS Max, Maya. Demos here: <a href="http://playcanvas.com/demos" rel="nofollow">http://playcanvas.com/demos</a><p>Email support{at}playcanvas{.}.com and mention Game On or email me directly if you are interested.<p>&#60;/plug&#62;

Sounds fun. How do I start making games (tutorials, useful libs)? Can anyone please help. I know JS and CoffeeScript but have no idea about Sprites, Collisions, Physics etc.<p>[Edit] Sorry just saw this - <a href="https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/resources/" rel="nofollow">https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/resources/</a>

If someone wants to team up with me to produce a game for this compo, find my contact in my HN profile. I participated in the github game off this year and was one of the winners - <a href="http://khele.in/pappu-pakia/" rel="nofollow">http://khele.in/pappu-pakia/</a>

I think this is a smart way to promote HTML5. Good job Mozilla.

I'm rounding up people to get a Game On event going in Berlin.<p>Get in touch with @hdragomir on twitter if you'd like to help us.

A really nice initiative. Well done, Mozilla.