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I would be lying if I said that's not a small part of it, because it is.

But what's much more important to us is having HTML5 games in general move forward, and that starts by getting more folks (especially students) developing games with the technology versus Flash or Unity. If HTML5 "fails" for games, Clay.io no longer exists.

We gathered as much as we could for prizes, but the main issue was with securing more sponsors. Clay.io in its current state is 3 undergraduates at the University of Texas - we don't have funding at this point, so we have to be a bit scrappy.

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I am sure that HTML5 is the future platform for games in the browser.

Personally i see HTML5 just as a deployment target in the future, like flash or ios for most major engines today. I bet Unity Technologies is already working on a "Deploy to HTML5" feature as they haben been doing for Flash as well. Other will do the same so we can continue to develop games in the mature and excellent software there already is, instead of reinventing the wheel in Javascript.

Hey. Another contestant here.

Looks like you guys have a problem with the background animation on that page (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Fy-Q78JeVpLXlWRW4xejlOQ3c/...)

Did you by chance open it up while the browser window was small, then resize the window?

Yeah, I think I did. Looks like it doesn't handle resizes properly if you start out with a small(ish) window.

As a current student and a hopeful contestant I think that what you guys have done with this competition is pretty cool. It has me interested in seeing what I can do with HTML5 besides just, "Novel thing done completely in HTML5"

The prizes are crap. A much more sane option would be for the winners to have an in for internships at the companies you mentioned.

This is probably easier to get than cash prizes, and it has way more value than $1500 USD.

Any reasonable game could probably do well over $1500 USD if marketed well enough. "Don't Starve" is the example for how to sell a game in the browser.

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