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Mozilla Game On: Build the Next Generation of Web Based Games.

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Mozilla: The Web is the Console

  • Mozilla Game On is a competition from Mozilla, the global non-profit community and makers of Firefox.
  • Game On reflects Mozilla's commitment to investing in bleeding edge gaming technologies and use games to teach digital literacy and webmaking.
  • We are calling all developers, designers, youth and educators to build the next generation of web based games.

Build the Next Generation of Web Based Games.

  • Re-imagine the Web as the console;
  • Use the power of the web to revolutionize the way we make and play games.
  • Invent new game mechanics, create new story lines, engage diverse audiences and introduce aesthetically challenging content.
  • Make games that can be played on your desktop, on your phone, on your tablet with tools like the new Firefox OS.
  • Design play that like the web itself is hackable by design. Games that let you pull assets and data from across the web into your game world. Games that let you remix, fork and share to your heart’s content.
  • Engage your players to learn as they make, remix and play.


Game On Facts

  • Make browser-based mobile games, hackable games and games for learning
  • Win a trip to the Game Developers Conference to meet industry pioneers.
  • Have your completed game featured in Mozilla’s Marketplace.
  • Submissions open on December3, 2012 and close February 20, 2013. For more info and updates stay tuned here.


Game On Call to Action:

  • During Game On we will be launching Game Jams to build prototypes for the competitions in various cities
  • The first one takes place in London at the Mozilla Festival: Nov 9-11
  • Games are a major part of this year's Mozilla Festival in London.
    • Got a game idea for the competition you'd like help testing and finishing up?
    • Want to showcase a new technology or teach others how to use it?
    • Interested in playing with new technologies and meeting people who love making and hacking games as much as you do?
  • Join us for a series of game jams and learning labs at MozFest! Learn more at mozillafestival.org.


Judges (more soon)

  • Siobhan Reddy , Media Molecule
  • Alice Taylor, Makie Lab,
  • Greg Trefry - Institute of Play, NYU Game Center, CoAP, Gigantic Mechanic
  • Jo Twist, UKIE
  • Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Michael John, Sr Creative Dir, EA
  • Nick Fortugno, Parsons, The New School for Design, Playmatics
  • Drew Davidson, Carnegie Mellon
  • Martin Best, Mozilla Gaming Labs
  • Lisa Long, Six to Start


Partners

  • NESTA <link>
  • Nominet Trust <link>

Assets

  • SPOKESPERSON: Chloe Varelidi, Hackable Games Lead, Mozilla. @varelidi .
  • CONTACT DETAILS: chloe@mozillafoundation.org
  • QUOTES:
  • CHLOE VARELIDI BIO:Chloe is the lead for Mozilla's Hackable Games Lab, a virtual lab to create, tinker, and play with remixable games that use the web as platform. She was previously the Creative Director and a founding staff member at Quest to Learn and the Institute of Play in New York, where she designed and produced digital and analog games and curriculum that teach game design to youth. She also runs a street game festival in her hometown of Athens, Greece, and occasionally makes her own handcrafted electronics. Chloe holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons, The New School for Design.
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