This month Mozilla Labs put on their first Game On 10 event in the UK, celebrating the beauty of games that are created, delivered, and played on the open Web. Well over 150 geeks rolled up to the venue in London to watch a variety of talks and mingle with like-minded people.
I was fortunate enough to be asked along to speak about Rawkets and some of the issues I’ve discovered while developing a game using open Web technologies. Now I’ll keep things short and sweet, but apart from absolutely crapping myself in front of a massive crowd of people, I kind of enjoyed it! Luckily for you the whole event was filmed so I’ve embedded the video of my talk for you to watch below — it's not that long. You can also check out the slides in high quality, which I've embedded below the video. I’d love to hear what you think in the comments or on Twitter.
Video of my Rawkets talk at Mozilla Labs' Game On 10.
Slides from my Rawkets talk at Mozilla Labs' Game On 10.
All in all I had a fantastic time and would like to congratulate Desigan Chinniah from Mozilla Labs, and both Adrian Hon, and Matt Wieteska from Six to Start for putting on a such a great event. I hope there are more to come!
Check out the round up of the event and videos of the other talks on the official Game On 10 blog post.
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M Haidar H
You’re awesome! Only the most creative developer will be chosen as the speaking in Mozilla Labs’ Game On.
I hope Rawkets will be progressing faster than the light speed!
Vikram
Great talk! I just started developing using HTML5 and your talk was very useful. Were there any discussions in the event around peer to peer communications for gaming? This would relieve the server from work - which is a single point of failure and also decrease the cost of hosting the server when you host it in a place like EC2 or app engine. (It would be helpful if you could share some data on the current economics of hosting the multiplayer server too)
Of course P2P would require even more complicated mechanism to curb cheating and where DRM on the javascript could help.
Liam McKay
Awesome, congrats dude, sweet talk. As you know I absolutely love Rawkets so it was nice to see you talking about it in such deal, and can I just say, it’s great to see that you have a real passion, and that you clearly love it too!