Articles by ROB HAWKES

Mozilla supports the Liberated Pixel Cup for open games

We’re excited to announce that Mozilla is supporting the Liberated Pixel Cup, a fantastic competition aiming to spark the creation of artwork and code for games that are free and available for others to use. The Liberated Pixel Cup is the brainchild of...

People of Games: Johan Dahlberg (WPilot)

By Rob Hawkes

People of Games is a series of interviews on game development for the Web. In this first edition we talk to Johan Dahlberg, creator of the WPilot HTML5 space-shooter. About Johan Dahlberg Johan currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and started coding (in quickbasic)...

Come and make games with us at GameHack

By Rob Hawkes

This coming weekend (28\u201329th April) we’ll be at GameHack, hosted at Pinewood Studios in the UK. The weekend-long event is focussed on creating amazing games on a variety of platforms. We’re working with the highly-experienced guys at Turbulenz...

Mozilla at Game Developer Conference 2012 (GDC)

By Rob Hawkes

Last week was GDC, one of the largest game-related events in the world! We made sure a handful of game-heads from Mozilla were in attendance to take everything in and represent game development with JavaScript and HTML5. This post is a round-up of the week...

Rounding-up the first Mozilla HTML5 games work week

By Rob Hawkes

A few weeks ago I wrote about the first Mozilla HTML5 games work week in Toronto and why it is important. In this post I summarise the week’s events and highlight some key observations. Before I start I should point out that I won’t be making any...

Mozilla HTML5 Games Work Week: 12–17th Feb

By Rob Hawkes

Next week is the first Mozilla HTML5 games work week. In this post I’ll talk briefly about what this is and why we think it’s important. Over the past few months and years it has become clear that HTML5 and JavaScript are proving more than enough...

FOSDEM 2012: Mozilla Labs Apps and The Future of HTML5 Games

By Rob Hawkes

In this post I round-up my first time at FOSDEM and the two talks I gave during my time there; one on open Web apps and the other on creating games with HTML5. This past weekend I have been in Brussels at FOSDEM, and absolutely massive free event for the open...

Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project

By Rob Hawkes

In this post I give a quick overview of the Mozilla Labs Apps project and how it and the other technologies at Mozilla relate to gaming. We really are at a point where amazing games can be created on the Web with nothing but open technologies. A few days ago...

Paving the way for open games on the Web with the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs

By Rob Hawkes

In this post I’ll be introducing the Gamepad and Mouse Lock APIs, two additions to Firefox that are paving the way for high quality games on the Web. Update: The Gamepad API, Mouse Lock API, and Full Screen API are now all available within a single experimental...

Mozilla Hacks Weekly, October 27th 2011

By Rob Hawkes

We come across a lot of interesting links in Developer Engagement. Here is a round-up of our favourite ones from the past week. Weekly links October 27th 2011 If there is anything you think we should read or know about, don’t hesitate to post a comment,...