Game On 2010: Mozilla Introduces the First Batch of Judges
Back in September we were glad to announce that Mozilla launched a new initiative called Mozilla Labs Gaming. The initiative focuses on games developed, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser, and on Open Web Technologies such as Open Video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geo location, and any other free, open-source tool that works across platforms and modern web browsers.
Alongside the Mozilla Labs Gaming initiative, Mozilla launched the Game On 2010 competition, which kicked off by the end of September. Game On 2010 is an international competition open to developers from all over the world who want to create complex and not so complex games with Open Web technologies.
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Julie Shin Choi, who manages the Game On 2010 competition for Mozilla Labs, has announced that the first batch of judges has been selected.
“It’s time to unveil our first batch of expert judges for the Mozilla Labs Game On competition,” said Choi. “Each of these individuals is an expert in their own domain from from gaming to academia, fashion and more. We are grateful for their willingness to take time out to participate as the inaugural crew of Game On judges and help us evaluate game entries after the submission period closes on January 11, 2011.”
The people who will be judging the Game On 2010 competition, the first batch at least, are as follows:
Dion Almaer - director of Developer Relations at Palm
Paul Bakaus - CTO of Zynga Germany
Ryan Carson - founder of Carsonified
Jacinda Chew - Art Director for Insomniac Games
Erik Christensen - programmer and game designer at Sony Online Entertainment
Greg Cohn - Sr. Director, Global Head of Product, Yahoo! Games, responsible for Yahoo’s Games and game developer strategy worldwide
Greg Costikyan - runs the playthisthing.com blog and the manifestogames.com site
Danc - Chief Creative Officer at Spry Fox
Mark Danks - Co-Studio Head for Zoë Mode San Francisco
Brendan Eich - CTO of the Mozilla Corp
Ben Galbraith - director of developer relations at Palm and the co-founder of Ajaxian.com
Alex Iskold - Founder/CEO of GetGlue
Sutha Kamal - technology architect at Fjord
Florian Landerl - co-founded Platogo
Tan Le - head of Emotiv Systems
Cathy Leung - professor at Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario.
Hilary Mason - lead scientist at bit.ly
Peter Merholz - founding partner, board member, and president of Adaptive Path
Phil Morle - one of the founders of Pollenize, a group that builds and invests in web businesses in Australia.
Nilay Patel - managing editor of Engadget
Robert Reich - founder of OneRiot and creator of OneRiot’s patent pending algorithm
John Resig - author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques
Jörg Rheinboldt - started betterplace.org
Neal Sample - eBay’s vice president of architecture
Jakob Sommerhuber - founded Platogo
Jon Stokes - co-founder and Deputy Editor at ArsTechnica.com
Paul Tarjan - webhacker at Facebook
Robyn Tippins - community manager at the Yahoo! Developer Network
Jonathan Trevor - architect, researcher, manager, developer, hacker. He is currently at Polyvore.
Additional details on the Game On 2010 judges are available here. Additional details on the Game On 2010 competition are available on the official Game On 2010 site.
Back in September we were glad to announce that Mozilla launched a new initiative called 