Mozilla Announces Game On Competition Winners

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."

One thing...

[RavenousBlack]

They all slow my computer down to a halt.

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[RavenousBlack]

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.

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[buchner.johannes]

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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[icebraining]

You need an audio API for event based sound.

IMHO

[hellop2]

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 [slashdot.org] 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

Re:IMHO

[AlXtreme]

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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[SanityInAnarchy]

...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.

Re:Did you actually try the games?

[Cramit]

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

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[SanityInAnarchy]

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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[hackel]

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

IT

Write that down in your copybook now.

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[SanityInAnarchy]

...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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[memco]

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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[hellop2]

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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[hellop2]

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

Favimon

[gringer]

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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[MyCookie]

Agreed, I am now addicted.

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[dingen]

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

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[snookiex]

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

Z-Type

[MasterPatricko]

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

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[buchner.johannes]

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

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[Surt]

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