[games_access] Mozilla Labs: Game On 2010 @GDC

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

Mozilla Labs: Game On 2010 @GDC
"Mozilla Labs is excited to announce the launch of our first  
international Open Web Games competition: Game On 2010."[1]

as most of you will know, I have been advocating the need for and  
benefits of a web games standard for some years.[2]

So I am really delighted and encouraged by this initiative to develop  
browser-native games.

I have asked the Director Pascal to consider an Accessibility strand,

and my entry XGS or XML Go Server is currently under active  
development: http://www.honte.eu

though not yet  conformant to current accessibility guidelines!

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

http://www.honte.eu


[1]	http://mozillalabs.com/gaming/2010/09/30/game-on-2010-is-here/
......"We have a bunch of great prizes and will fly out the overall  
winner to next year’s Game Developer Conference and Independent Games  
Festival in San Francisco where we will give you the red carpet  
treatment including a behind-the-scenes tour of Mozilla HQ in Mountain  
View, California – all expenses paid."

[2] The rising tide of scientific data available on the web, has the  
potential to help us consider the complex problems that concern us  
today, and simulation games can help us visualize, model and plan for  
alternative futures. However, the modularisation of knowledge has  
limited communication across subject domains, and copyright  
legislation and business practices may need to change, if the many new  
visualisation tools needed are to be interoperable and share common  
interfaces. A game standard and specification for the web, together  
with easy-to-use authoring tools for creating browser-native games  
that use real-world XML data; could enhance communication, and engage  
the public in the understanding of science, and its progress.

that's the abstract for the chapter: Browser-native games that use  
real-world xml data
from the book: Business, Technological and Social Dimensions of  
Computer Games
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=46177

let me know offlist if you would like to read more...