And the Game On competition winners are…

Pushing the frontiers of gaming on the web

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s “Game On” competition.

The competition invited game designers and developers around the world to submit their games. The goal: show how new open technologies are pushing the envelope of what’s possible on the web.

We received more than 165 great entries total, with competitors from Morocco to Russia to Canada. Games ranged from web-programmed robots, to massively multi-player “tweet wars,” to mobile-powered multipedes.

GitHub Game Off Winners

We are super proud to be partnering with Github for our competition and we wanted to share with you the great entries from GitHub’s Game Off Competition.

Last month, Github’s @leereily organized a month long game jam asking developers to create a web-based game loosely built around the theme of forking, branching, cloning, pushing, and/or pulling. There were over 1337 forks and almost 200 playable games at the end of the competition. Hope your schedule is clear, there’s a lot of good games to play here!

Try them out now:
https://blog.mozilla.org/gameon/2013/01/08/github-game-off-winners

Winners

Help Hotfix collect stargazers and avoid enemies. Collect commits to upgrade hotfix and add new features » play · source

An abstract racing game where you fight against the clock and the computer to get as far as you can in a product’s life-cycle » play · source

Rock Kickass is a shoot’em up platformer about an android who can merge the code of the enemies he kills to gain their powers » play · source

PolyBranch is a minimalist 3D game. Dodging branches may seem easy at first, but how long can you hold up as you approach terminal velocity? » play · source

An addictive game where you guide little Pappu around obstacles while collecting coins, stars, and berries and avoiding enemies known as Pakias » play · source

Runners Up

» play · source

Honorable Mentions

» play · source

chloeatplay:

lovely #playmakers video featuring @mediamolecule -ers talking about empowering gamers to be makers of games #mozgames

MozFest: Hackable Games

Make and remix games on the web

Turning game players into game creators. Learn more about Hackable Games at MozFest.
Stop by the Hackable Game Arcade. Packed with great examples, from cardboard prototypes to arcade classics.
Host a game jam in your own city. Our Webmaker event kits make it easy.
Get involved in the Game On competition. Build the next generation of web-based games. Internet fame awaits!

Click here to see the cool Hackable Games sessions at this week’s Mozilla Festival:

http://mozillafestival.org/schedule/themes/hackable-games

Find out more:

http://mozillafestival.org
November 9 – 11, 2012
London, UK | Ravensbourne