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Mozilla moves into Open Web gaming
WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Mozilla has started up a division to develop games that can be played on web browsers.
Mozzarella has labeled it Mozilla Labs Gaming and the cunning plan is to use the technologies that make gaming on the Open Web possible.
According to the website, the Mozilla Foundation is inviting the wider community to play with cool technology and help establish Open Web as the framework behind gaming across all Internet connected devices.
A spokesman said that modern Open Web technologies have stacks of technologies such as open video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geo-location, and fast Javascript engines that make it possible to build complex - and not so complex - games on the web.
He said that since these can all run on modern web browsers, the time is ripe for pushing the technology to game developers.
It seems Mozilla thinks games are a good way to keep people using its software. After all apps worked for the Iphone, even though real games on the PC knocked the spots off ones on the Imac.
The spokesman noted that games and game developers are at the forefront of technology, often pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible.
As part of this the open sourcerors at Mozilla are starting an international gaming competition: Game On 2010.
This competition will be open to all developers interested in creating games using the latest in Open Web technologies. More details about this will be forthcoming. µ
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Hey guys!
Welcome to Mozilla Labs Game On! 2010 Contest.
To Kick off this grand event a few developers started a forum covering the latest technology rants, game entry sneak peeks and everything else Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 related.
If you have have any questions, want to contribute or just hang around with the developers watching as we break the new openweb frontiers, check out the following link:
http://compo.binbash.eu
See you around!
Gaming is just one project, there's more as can be seen here http://mozillalabs.com/projects/
And to the rest, Mozilla isn't competing with the big companies, they just make open source software, they should not seek to become corporate since then the open source loving crowd would have to dump them and find a new mozilla, and it's good that they focus on the browser and the legacy of their package like email and such and ways to make that enjoyable.
Interesting that they didn't consider office applications, though that's the direction that Chrome appears to be going.
Anything that gets rid of Flash is a good thing.
@mike:
Those things are not platform-independent. They have one version for each platform with different features and independently mantained, but only for those platforms that seem interesting to its developer (and don't even get me started with Java *rolls eyes*).
For true platform-independency it has to be open-source, so anyone can compile it on the prefered platform and make adjustments accordingly.
But open-source products are curiously missing from your list of great things.
Mozilla pushes a web browser so Mozilla thinks more games should be web based. Wow, that's creative. /sarcasm
Mozilla needs to diversify. Apple isn't just a computer maker, and Adobe makes more software than just Photoshop and Flash. Google is more than just a search engine. Mozilla needs to think beyond web browsers for it's next big thing. It seems a new browser comes along every couple of years now.
If Mozilla wants to play the 'my plug-ins are better than yours' game then there is no reason to think that Mozilla will come out ahead in the long run. There are other, very wealthy players out there.
Java is platform-independent, so are browsers, so are other tech. How about a robust, platform-independent gaming software package that is not necessarily a browser?