List of hackathons about video-games in 2016

Join the upcoming Hack Weekend in Kaduna. You'll join like-minded designers, marketers, product people, entrepreneurs and coders in a fun environment. Collaborate to create exciting new concepts and products! The goal is to leave with an awesome idea turned into a working demo + have a ton of fun as a bonus.

Attention volunteers who love building crazy technology! If you're a developer, designer or data scientist, come help charities with their digital challenges at the Brighton Digital Festival! You'll be assigned a business case for a problem that a participating charity needs to solve: →re-designing their website or smartphone application, →building a proof of concept on using chat bots, augmented reality, and virtual reality or →helping them with data needs. The day will be focused on designing, developing, breaking the digital rulebook and helping move towards a more sustainable world through helping charities accelerate into the world of digital.

Anyone who's interested in virtual reality! It's your time! The Seattle VR Hackathon is back! Come and join in for a weekend of creativity, innovation, and learning! The VR Hackathon is an opportunity to learn about Virtual Reality and other immersive technologies, to meet new people, and to get hands-on experience with VR design and development. The VR hackathon is open to everyone—artists, enthusiasts, UX designers, sound artists, critics, researchers, film-makers, developers, game designers, testers, psychologists, industry professionals, and more. You don't have to be an expert. The VR hackathon is a great introduction to working with VR, and our organizers and workshop presenters are all dedicated to helping you no matter what your skill level.

Virtual Reality developers! Want to get your hands on the latest motion-tracked input controllers from Oculus? Participate in Oculus Touch 24hr VR Hackathon and get early access to the devices to understand their capabilities and learn how to develop with them! Collaborate in teams to create fun mini-games that make use of the capacitive, haptic motion-tracked controllers. You can be a coder, an artist, a designer or a bit of all three, you make sure your team has enough relevant skills to create a working build in Unity for evaluation.

You don't have to be an expert to participate in the Week of VR - Unity® Boot Camp! It's designed for beginners with no prior experience. If you're an intermediate or advanced user, then you will be able to compete in a VR hackathon. All participants will be able to use a protoype of Google's Project Tango — the world's most advanced tablet. All participants will learn how to develop for this amazing untethered room scale device.

You've already seen the rise of smart cities, from Barcelona to London to Nairobi and beyond.  IoT, VR, and AI have made massive strides in the past few years. Come collaborate and demonstrate how our lives are going to change in the future. Hack one of the following topics: »Education: How does the rise of AR/VR change the classroom? »Entertainment: What does the future living room look like? »Sports: What does the future of football viewing look like?

Geeks, jocks, entrepreneurs! Join the Seattle Sports Tech Meetup for the first annual Hackathon, hosted by the Seattle Sounders with data provided by Sportradar. If you have a desire to contribute to the integration of technology with sports then sign up -- as part of a team or as an individual. Pitch your ideas to a panel of judges. Who knows, you might just create the next big thing!

Are you a developer? An Artist? A VR tech enthusiast? Are you interested in collaborating on scary VR experiences and working with the artists at Titmouse Studios? Join Monster VR and Titmouse Studios for a twisted Halloween-themed hackathon in Los Angeles! So. Cal VR has orchestrated hackathons in the past, but this will be the most TERRIFYING yet!

Show off your skills in Smartglass, AR, VR, Kinect, Leapmotion, Interactive Wall/Floor, Brain Control Technology, and other technologies! Come get ready to participate in a two-week hackathon and knowledge sharing session with like-minded Philippines tech and game enthusiasts!

Student hackers! Come and join students from the University TecMilenio in their first TecmiHacks hackathon. Free topic! Open to students of all universities. Food, caffeine, and a lot of code.