List of hackathons about video-games in 2016

Hackers, developers! Come participate in Finland's largest health and welfare hackathon. Collaborate to develop new solutions based on digital technology, robotics and artificial intelligence to respond to the social and health needs. Harness mm. robotics, open data and virtual reality in order to create a better everyday life. Develop new solutions to challenges such as mobility, vision, learning and understanding, mental health, aging and health maintenance.

AR & VR techies! This event's for you! Come and participate in the Corinth AR & VR Hackathon for virtual and augmented reality. You'll get to see and code for the exciting new Microsoft Hololens AR device, as well as the most advanced VR HTC Vive. Participate on your own, or with a team, and build an AR/VR prototype for both platforms.

It's Virtual Reality time for tech developers, business profilers, industry experts, game programmers, makers, UI/UX designers, artists, animators, storytellers. etc. Come participate in the B2B VR Hackathon and create B2B virtual reality solution prototypes for Health, Commerce, Real Estate, and Data Visualization.

Interested in the smart Italian city of tomorrow? Come and participate in #SAPcult, The Italian Smart City Hackathon. Create an innovative app, using capabilities such as IoT, Mobile, InMemory and the SAP HCP analytics platform. Demonstrate your vision of the smart Italian city of tomorrow, by accepting one of the following challenges: 1.Enhancing the human capital, creating services for citizens and tourists; 2.Create new user experiences for city workers, making the most of Italy's enormous historical heritage; 3.Leverage social networking and predictive technology to improve land management and prevent natural disasters.

Come and participate in Bolzano Hackathon. This year, the focus is on what can you do to make the region you are living in more innovative and at the same time sustainable? In this edition you can play with some cool gadgets — Oculus VR, Google Glasses, IoT lamps, wearable sensors, and RasperryPis.

If your dream is to not only to play but invent your own video games, then join the fellows of coding school to learn how you can write stories for your characters and then actualize your dreams into real 3D games! Receive help from professionals in the industry as you build your own game over the course of a weekend.

Female high school and college students! Come and collaborate in a team to design a website, game, or mobile app that addresses one of the following real-world challenges: »Challenge 1: Connecting Girls to Success. Create a platform where Girl Force USA members can connect to other members, mentors, and potential employers. »Challenge 2: Creative Repurposing to Reduce Waste: Build a web app or mobile game to engage youth encouraging them to creatively repurpose used items into useful resources.

For those interested in turning their love of gaming into a profession, U-tad and Diboos have collaborated to provide the residents of Las Rozas with the ability to attend an Advanced Unity workshop for multi-platform game developement. Participants will learn important concepts in Unity Game Engine from animation to user interface and even virtual reality.

BCNAnalytics and SocialPoint will once again be teaming up for the second annual Barcelona Gaming Datathon! 10 teams of 4 members each will be working together to try to win their share of over 1.5k euros in prizes, food tshirts and a team if needed will all be provided. Selections for participants will be made off of merit based on linkedin/github profiles.

VR Hackers! Show off your hacking skills at the inaugural Immerse-a-thon.   You'll be able to compete for recognition and prizes from event sponsors including HTC and Unity. The theme for the hackathon will be "Dreaming in VR". So come and start hacking the dream! Win prizes and compete to have your VR project on show at the upcoming VR Bash at the Knitting Factory.