List of hackathons about video-games in 2016

Start-up entrepreneurs! Come and share your view of the future at the TechCrunch Shanghai Hackathon, a 24-hour intensive brainstorming event designed to bring out the best in Chinese tech innovation. The topic is "See the future" and the organizers expect to attract innovative start-ups that represent future trends like Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industry 4.0. Participating start-ups will have a chance to rub shoulders with high-level VCs and angel investors and members of the media.

VR & drone enthusiasts! Come and participate in the tool.Up Workshop. Throughout the day you will experience lectures, brainstorming and workshops that will inspire and prepare you to collaborate and produce solutions such as VR technology, IoT solutions for everyday life, and the development of Drone solutions.

Hackers and designers! Come to RealityHack @ TAURON Arena Kraków and participate in a groundbreaking series of exciting programming challenges. Your goal will be to build stunning apps, that go beyond the boundaries of smartphones and reach into the physical world, creating magical experiences for fellow humans. So come to the Arena and unleash your creativity—build apps that enhance the visitor experience!

Is Virtual Reality your thing? Come and participate in the Philippine Mobile VR Jam. Open for all participants--students, professionals, artists or programmers. The Philippine Mobile VR Jam is a Virtual Reality hackathon that will bring together brilliant minds to learn and collaborate on creating applications with immersive mobile virtual reality technologies. Over the period of 42 hours, teams are tasked to create their own Virtual Reality game or app for the Samsung Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset.

Gaming designers and developers! Sign up for the Microsoft GAME JAM--a free 2-day hackathon at Media Design University Dusseldorf. Come and get introduced to game development for the Universal Windows Platform and other platforms. Work with experienced Microsoft technology experts and build a cool game for the Universal Windows dev platform--then compete against other participants for a chance to be a winner.

Virtual reality technologists, creatives and makers! Come attend #VARForum : WOMEN in VR (Virtual+Reality). Learn from inspiring women Virtual Reality innovators about their successes, leadership styles, tech talents and creativity. V+AR Forum aims to focus on the different sides of production and applications. Through panel talks and demos, the forum is an opportunity to transform ideas on workplace diversity, design adaptations, and social experiences into real solutions.

Game developers -- get ready! Team up at NuclioHack to show your game building prowess! Create your game--ready to play from GitHub! Be one of the three winning teams that NuclioHack will select based on gameplay, graphics, mobile support, code and browser compatibility. May the best teams win!

Are you passionate about coding, UX design, marketing, strategy or business development? Can you build an app or a game that revolutionizes the consumers' power consumption experience? Got ideas on how to leverage social media? What about imroving the human-to-appliance interaction? The only limit is your imagination! You have the power! Register for the EnPower Hackathon today!

Gaming designers and developers! Sign up for the Microsoft GAME JAM--a free 2-day hackathon at Stuttgart Media University. Come and get introduced to game development for the Universal Windows Platform and other platforms. Work with experienced Microsoft technology experts and build a cool game for the Universal Windows dev platform--then compete against other participants for a chance to be a winner.

Kids! Sign up to attend Paideia Learning Academy's June Holidays Tech Camp. There are a wide range of computing programmes for students from primary to secondary school, with workshops suitable for students with different skill levels and objectives. Available workshops include Games Programming with Unity 3D and Scratch and and Mobile Apps Development with App Inventor for Android.