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Mozilla Announces Game On Competition Winners

Posted by Soulskill on from the game-on-apply-directly-to-the-forehead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has announced the winners of the Game On competition, a contest designed to encourage the development of games based on web technologies. In the various competition categories Far 7 won Best Technology, Sketchout won Best Aesthetics, Favimon won Most Original, Websnooker won Most Polished, and Robots Are People Too won Most Fun. Z-Type won the Community Choice category and Marble Run won Best Web-iness and Best Overall."

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  1. One thing... by RavenousBlack · · Score: 1

    They all slow my computer down to a halt.

    1. Re:One thing... by RavenousBlack · · Score: 1

      With Flash I can play games for a reasonable amount of time, at a reasonable fps, with reasonable load times, and a reasonable quality before my computer slows considerably. With these games it's the contrary.

    2. Re:One thing... by buchner.johannes · · Score: 1

      I think the flash is just for the sound, and this hasn't been standardized yet (html5), so maybe it was overlooked since it's not part of the game play.

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    3. Re:One thing... by icebraining · · Score: 1

      You need an audio API for event based sound.

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  2. IMHO by hellop2 · · Score: 2

    All of these HTML5 games lack ambition. None of them seem to have the gameplay, fun-factor, playtime, or cohesiveness of say... original Super Mario Brothers. Apparently Freeciv online wasn't submitted, but I think it has a lot more polish and overall completedness than any of these submissions. Personally, I think the future of HTML5 gaming is wide open

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    1. Re:IMHO by AlXtreme · · Score: 3

      Give them a try, I don't see how a HTML5 MMORPG (far7) lacks ambition and in my eyes it is more polished (and original) than freeciv.net.

      I do agree that HTML5 gaming is wide open. Amazing work, a playable game using only Javascript would have been unheard of a few years ago.

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    2. Re:IMHO by hellop2 · · Score: 1

      Ohh, spoke to soon, freeciv was submitted: https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/

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    3. Re:IMHO by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

      ...aside from the fact that they do server-side user-agent detection and require specific versions of Firefox. Cool concept, but that's neither a web game or an HTML5 game, it's a Firefox game. They might as well have used XUL.

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    4. Re:IMHO by hellop2 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, Far 7 is a good start. But, I saw limited ability for strategy... compare to say, tradewars where you could control sectors, form alliances, and build up a little empire. I'm just saying, I was hoping for more.

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    5. Re:IMHO by memco · · Score: 1

      Got a 502 error on far7 and two of the others didn't load. I opened up web snooker only to be told that my Webkit nightly of Safari isn't supported and I need to "update it." The only one that worked for me was z-type–fun, but only for a little while.

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  3. Favimon by gringer · · Score: 2

    Favimon, you have my axe. I've got Slashdot with 10 armour and a stolen double click from interface.org.nz.

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    1. Re:Favimon by MyCookie · · Score: 1

      Agreed, I am now addicted.

    2. Re:Favimon by dingen · · Score: 1

      I took down Microsoft.com using Slashdot.org's obsolescence. How cool is that.

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    3. Re:Favimon by snookiex · · Score: 1

      Debian rules! It defeated Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSuse and Microsoft

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  4. Z-Type by MasterPatricko · · Score: 1

    was oddly addictive ... reminds me of the typing games we used to have at school, but more fun

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    1. Re:Z-Type by buchner.johannes · · Score: 1

      http://playbiolab.com/ (based on the same platform as z-type)
      http://websnooker.com/ (incorrect beta url on mozilla labs)

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  5. Re:Did you actually try the games? by Cramit · · Score: 1

    The only one that doesn't run in chrome is "far7". In fact "Robots are People Too" actually recommends chrome.

  6. Re:javascript + html5 by Surt · · Score: 1

    Now be fair. javascript + html5 has way more colors than a commodore 64, and only marginally less performance.

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  7. Re:Did you actually try the games? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry. I was using "they" to be a gender-neutral singular pronoun, which English doesn't really have. I meant specifically that far7 doesn't support Chrome.

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  8. Re:Did you actually try the games? by hackel · · Score: 1

    Hello! Today's English Word Of The Day is:

    IT

    Write that down in your copybook now.

  9. Re:Did you actually try the games? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

    ...whoops, I fail English today. I meant it to be a gender-neutral plural pronoun, and one which applies to humans, not things.

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