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.
I was responsible for the 2010 version of Game On. We screwed up your price (long story) and will make good on it now. I know. It's late. Like in: Too late. I am sorry. Trust me - it was not done on purpose or out of neglect (well, I guess you can argue about that).
Anyway: Short of it is - I am sorry. And we will make good on it. Expect an email today (if you haven't already received it).
It's a fun competition, but I had the exact same experience as oulipian. I co-created RAPT, which won "Most Fun", and we never received Dreamweaver, a Think Vitamin sponsorship, or "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja". However, we did receive a box containing t-shirts, Buckyballs, and Mozilla swag.
Mozilla seems to have issues with prizes they offer for stuff. I was supposedly selected to receive an FF4 t-shirt for my continued bugzilla participation and bug filing. I replied with the size (+ maybe design) I wanted and that was that :(
Not only that but the prizes are pretty lackluster. Grand prize gets an all expenses paid trip to SF, which is awesome, but everyone else gets one of these hunky beasts http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130... . Which has no place in my laptop and is ironically pretty useless for html5 games.
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 all 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.
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.
If anyone is interested in making a game for Game On, you might be interested in using PlayCanvas (http://playcanvas.com) to do so. Our CEO, Will, spoke at the Mozilla Game Jam in London at the weekend.
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: http://playcanvas.com/demos
Email support{at}playcanvas{.}.com and mention Game On or email me directly if you are interested.
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.
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 - http://khele.in/pappu-pakia/
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[+] [-] pmoz|13 years ago|reply
I was responsible for the 2010 version of Game On. We screwed up your price (long story) and will make good on it now. I know. It's late. Like in: Too late. I am sorry. Trust me - it was not done on purpose or out of neglect (well, I guess you can argue about that).
Anyway: Short of it is - I am sorry. And we will make good on it. Expect an email today (if you haven't already received it).
[+] [-] callahad|13 years ago|reply
Edit: Aaaand beaten to the punch by pmoz. Like always ;)
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[+] [-] chill1|13 years ago|reply
I will have to remember to check back in on this, to see what everyone came up with.
[+] [-] roschdal|13 years ago|reply
Twitter: @andreasrosdal
[+] [-] daredevildave|13 years ago|reply
If anyone is interested in making a game for Game On, you might be interested in using PlayCanvas (http://playcanvas.com) to do so. Our CEO, Will, spoke at the Mozilla Game Jam in London at the weekend.
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: http://playcanvas.com/demos
Email support{at}playcanvas{.}.com and mention Game On or email me directly if you are interested.
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[+] [-] rockyj|13 years ago|reply
[Edit] Sorry just saw this - https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/resources/
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Get in touch with @hdragomir on twitter if you'd like to help us.
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