From all of us on the Game On team, Happy Holidays! To celebrate the season, we’ve pulled together a hefty list of prizes for you. We’re not kidding when we say these prizes range from super pragmatic to gravity-defying. Without further ado, here they are:
Best Overall
The following prizes will be awarded to the best overall game.
- Grand Prize: Trip to GDC 2011
- Featured in Firefox 4 Gallery: Promote your game to over 400M people who use Firefox
- Game logo or other design asset created by Mozilla Principal Designer Sean Martell
- Special Edition Mozilla Swag
- Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5: Industry-leading web design software, an outstanding visual HTML editor and superb code editor.
- Guest blog post on Yahoo! Games & 1-hour consultation with Greg Cohn, head of product for Y! Games, free game download
- Think Vitamin Silver Membership: Learn Web design & development through 100s of high quality video courses and online conferences to keep you on the cutting edge
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 460: Tailor made to hit the gamers’ sweet spot, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 delivers revolutionary levels of price/performance.
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, signed by the creator of jQuery, John Resig
- Special Edition Game On T-Shirt, signed by the inventor JavaScript, Brendan Eich
- Tandem 18,000 foot skydive w/ video and stills (optional)
- Buckyballs!
Category Prizes
The following prizes will be awarded for best technology, best web-iness, best aesthetics, most original, best polish, most fun, and community choice.
- Awesome games will be featured in the Firefox 4 Gallery
- Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5
- Guest blog post on Yahoo! Games
- Think Vitamin Silver Membership
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, signed by the creator of jQuery, John Resig
- Special Edition Game On T-Shirt, signed by the inventor JavaScript, Brendan Eich
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 (only for 3D games)
- Special Edition Mozilla Swag
- Buckyballs!
We would like to thank the following Game On 2010 Prize Sponsors for their partnership and commitment to promote Open Web games:
As a reminder, there are just over 3 weeks left in the competition. The deadline to submit your game is January 11*, 2011. So, keep your eyes on the prize(s) and get your game on today!
*UPDATE 12/30/2010: Apologies as this post originally mentioned the 1st as the deadline date. This has now been updated to correctly show that the deadline is indeed January 11, 2011