Many major cities in the world hosted Global Game Jam this past weekend. I was at the Poznań Game Jam promoting HTML5 and JavaScript as the technology of choice to create the games, along with Firefox OS as the perfect mobile platform for the job.
The whole month passed so quickly, almost everything revolved around the js13kGames competition with which I still have a lot to do – print and ship the t-shirts, manage all the prizes etc. Here’s the detailed break-down of my work during September:
As you may already know we’ve launched our first HTML5 mobile game called Captain Rogers. It was optimized and prepared for the Firefox OS devices (I’ve got one after the App Workshops thanks to Mozilla!) and published in the Firefox Marketplace. The main focus will be put on that platform and the ecosystem. There are only days left till the official launch, so it should be interesting. The first commercial Firefox OS devices were announced today and will be available very soon.
The Firefox OS will be the second revolution by Mozilla, it will impact the mobile market dominated by iOS and Android the similar way it crushed IE6 ten years ago and changed the way we perceive the web. If you're a front-end developer and want to try your luck with mobile apps there's no better way than by diving in into familiar environment - all of the development for Firefox OS is done by using web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
If you're an HTML5 game developer that have a lot of free time, want to win something and participate with others then there's a couple of interesting competitions going on right now or in the near future. Let's have a look at what's going on.