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• Mozilla Festival

by kmace

Mozilla gaming spoke to Christian Heilmann at Mozfest 2011 to ask him the latest on advancements at Mozilla (as well as a behind the scenes chat about riots and basmati rice). As a Principle Evangelist at Mozilla here’s what the man had to say!

You can follow Christian at @codepo8 on twitter for more.

Tags: #mozfest, christian heilmann, evangelist, mozgames

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• Mozilla Festival

by kmace

At Mozfest 2011 we spoke to .net’s ‘brilliant newcomer of the year’, Rob Hawkes about his role in the festival and at Mozilla. Over the weekend he took part in many challenges and also led open sessions for people to learn more about html5. Here’s what he had to say.

For more information on Rob and on his challenge’s and sessions (e.g. single to multiplayer html) check back here! Enjoy the interview!

These are just a few notes from the ‘Single to multiplayer Session to get you started. I am informed that all links are online for you to leaner more!

Session 1
‘AIM –> Set up your own events, Create player classes, Create players,

Downloadable Tutorial File:       cl.ly/BYil
Source Code:                                    github.com/robhawkes/mozilla/festival/zipball/single-player

Mac:                                                   github.com/mxcl/homebrew
Windows:                                         gutihub.com/chocalatey/chocolately/wiki
Node package Manager: curl npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Look at javascript scoping if confused.’

Tags: #mozfest, Gaming, interview, mozgames, mozilla, netwards, rob hawkes

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by JMaybour

So thats it for another year, its all over, but at least we still have the memories. Here are just some of the photos taken around this years festival to remind you of all the good times.

Our presenter Sam Roberts being greeted by the Mozilla foxes, there all weekend to entertain and annoy.

Setting up for the Science Fair, only a couple of hours to go…

Right in the thick Science fair where everyone gets to display their work to the public.

 Our Kat Mace talking to the Web Design students from Ravensbourne about the htmll5 games they’ve been creating.

Our interview space, this is where we conducted all the interviews of the weekend.

Interviewer Le mi Ly talking with Bobby Richer and Alan Kligman from the Paladin Team.

The Paladin Team showcasing their new html5 game Rescue Fox

The Helicam! a camera attached to a small helicopter which can take beautiful aerial shots.

Get your macs out! the hackers hard at work.

The Hackasaurus workshop.

Behind the scenes of Mozilla Gaming, this is where the magic happens.

Presenter Samuel Roberts interviewing Christian Heilman before he performs his keynote speech.

Full house for the keynote speakers. If you look hard you can see our little camera crew at the back. (no not the fancy camera on the left)

Jono Xia delivering his keynote speech and displaying his new game where users and log on and create their own levels and characters.

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• Mozilla Festival

by kmace

We invited Jono Xia upstairs for a chat on the final day of Mozfest, to tell us a bit about his involvement and the festival as a whole. For all the latest on fireside chats, collaboration, test pilot and developments he’s the man to talk to.

Watch the video for the full interview and find out more about Mozilla’s in-house accordion player Jono and his motivation behind the games and much more.

Tags: #mozfest, Gaming, jonoxia, mozilla, zerotogame

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• Mozilla Festival

by rmcneice

So the end has come to a weekend of hacking, interviews, challenges, presentations, coffee, fireworks and foxes! We met some amazingly talented and truly innovative people over the course of the weekend, and we hope we have shown you what you can expect to see in the future on a browser in front of you.

Although our site is dedicated to the gaming aspect of the festival, we have collected all our footage and combined it into a little montage of Mozfest. We hope you enjoy, and thank you for following us this weekend.

Make sure to check back to the site over the next two days as we will be uploading all our Interviews with Bobby Ritcher, Alan Kligman, Jono Xia and Rob Hawkes.

Please check out TomScottElectronic who kindly allowed us to use his music in the video - soundcloud.com/tomscott123

Tags: #mozfest

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• Mozilla Festival

by swar

Day 2

On the second day of Mozfest, though the foxes may have been snoozing, you would have been a fool to believe it wasnt a full on, jam packed day. With challenges and hacking events constantly on the go, the buzz was constantly noticeable.

Up on floor 7, the hub for the Mozilla Gaming operation, we had the cream of the html5 crop in html5 games along side our xbox booth with Rock band on the go. An interview with the guys of the Paladin Team were recorded in our dedicated studio room.

One of the main gaming challenges was to turn a single player game into a multiplayer one, using nothing but Node.js and WebSockets goodness.  Zero to Game, the goal of the session was for everyone to build a page where they can steer some kind of character around the screen using the keyboard or mouse.

Upstairs on floor 7, we had The Paladin Team talk to us about their involvements in the festival and give us a presentation of their game Rescue Fox. Showing off the ability to play a browser game with a joystick, without the need for anything to be installed. They were also the first members of the festival, we had the pleasure of interviewing.

At the end of the day, the festival goers were invited along to Blackheath Park for a spectacular, and of course well deserved, fireworks display. On the Sunday, many more interviews are planned, Jono Xia, Rob Hawkes and Christian Heilmann will be joining us.