Success! The Mozilla Festival 2013 went very well, we created an online gameshow from scratch (including controllers) in about 2 hours and then played it! Thanks to everyone who participated, and especially Oli Evans, Alan Shaw, James Uren, and Will Pearson for hosting the quiz.
The finished scoreboard system as a jsFiddle:
The github repository for the gameshow hack project.
Our meteor example is at http://gameshowhack.meteor.com/
Evan’s photos from the gameshow hack.
Alan’s photos from the gameshow hack.
UPDATE: Some photos from Mozilla’s account!
A contestant
The audience playing the game
The contestants ready to buzz in
the iCans promoting our gig