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    Posted: 16 Jan 2011 at 16:28
Originally posted by HonoredMule HonoredMule wrote:

I believe the idea of this competition was to foster new development and draw attention away from flash gaming (and now that other new propriety platform as well), which isn't much encouraged by the overpowering presence of mature and commercially-backed games.  I would suspect that Mozilla wanted to remove that obstacle, but put it back when they noticed there's nothing else worth showcasing (which would just make the competition look and be worthless).

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i'll back down then :-)

i just get mad when i think i see unfair preferense happening.

good on them for putting illy back in

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As Strategos has mentioned... we're back in the running!

Originally posted by Mozilla Labs Mozilla Labs wrote:


Thanks for your clarification and explanation. We gave the matter some thought and decided to put your game back in the gallery.


Hurrah, and thanks to the good folks at Mozilla for reinstating us.

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Points: 1650 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jan 2011 at 03:35
I believe the idea of this competition was to foster new development and draw attention away from flash gaming (and now that other new propriety platform as well), which isn't much encouraged by the overpowering presence of mature and commercially-backed games.  I would suspect that Mozilla wanted to remove that obstacle, but put it back when they noticed there's nothing else worth showcasing (which would just make the competition look and be worthless).

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A slight update.

It would appear that Illyriad is back on the list (at least when I refresh it).
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nice post parennis.

Go Illyriad, GO!!!!
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Originally posted by mozilla mozilla wrote:

We think your game is a fantastic example of what a mature browser-based game could be - but unfortunately, since Illyriad was completed way before (years) this competition, it has been flagged both internally and externally for removal from the gallery. We have decided to disqualify the game from prize-consideration at this time.


Originally posted by mozilla competion rules mozilla competion rules wrote:

This gives you a little over 3 months and an entire holiday season to develop your open Web game during Game On 2010.

The competition kicks off at 12:00am / 00:00 GMT on September 30th, 2010 and will end at 11:00am / 11:00 GMT on January 11th, 2011. You are welcome to work on the concept for your game before the competition starts: napkin doodles, insomniac wire-framing, robots in disguise- even some hacking if you like.


i call total bull**** on this

you guys were disqualified from the competition for having a game (Illyriad) that began development in 2009 and was released in Feb 2010...?

so what about these games which are still on the Competition pages and eligible to win?

Adventure Game
in their competition entry description they write "Development started in 2003 and is using somewhat dated technologies."

FreeCiv.Net
in their competition entry description they write "The Freeciv.org project has origins back to 1996, with many different contributors." and the copyright notice on their own pages reads "Copyright © 2008-2011 Freeciv.net"

Battlecell
the Battlecell terms & conditions are dated 02/09/2009

Dave's Galaxy:
the Development Discussion Group on google goes back to July 2010

Orbium:
which was released as an iPhone App back in June 2010

and i've only looked at a few of the entries...

NOT only this set of blatant double standards but there also seems to be some fairly obvious vote-stuffing going on here eg one developer appears to have managed to get himself no less than 4 competition entries simply by changing some of the text:

https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/51/choice-of-broadsides
https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/52/choice-of-romance
https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/50/choice-of-the-dragon
https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/53/choice-of-the-vampire

so whatever is going on at mozilla you werent disqualified for the reason stated. 

does anyone else smell something fishy here?

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Well yes - we began dev in the latter part of 2009 and went live at the end of Feb 2010.

But the competition rules do say:

"This gives you a little over 3 months and an entire holiday season to develop your open Web game during Game On 2010.

The competition kicks off at 12:00am / 00:00 GMT on September 30th, 2010 and will end at 11:00am / 11:00 GMT on January 11th, 2011. You are welcome to work on the concept for your game before the competition starts: napkin doodles, insomniac wire-framing, robots in disguise- even some hacking if you like."

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"completed way before (years) this competition"
What?!?!  Excuse me, I have to go find my head cuz it just exploded off my neck.Wacko
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