List of hackathons about video-games in 2016

Virtual Reality has risen to the top of the tech scene as everyone begins to see the first mainstream prototypes and uses come to market. If you have an interest in VR or are currently working in this innovative field, then gain some more experience and compete for great prizes at the We Are Code VR Hackathon! The event will be sponsored by Oculus with the chance to win cash, gadgets, free coding classes and more!

Come participate in the one-of-a-kind 2016 Bot Party Hackathon. This 48-hour event mixes a weekend of theatre arts and technology to produce open-source projects featured in recurring incarnations of the improvisational Bot Party live stage show. You're encouraged to bring any of your own projects and ideas for collaborative, anything-goes creation! The hackathon will be focused on three specific areas of development: »Blue Zone: Applied Robotics Software (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C++, Python... !!) »Red Zone: Electronics and Hardware (Arduino and Raspberry pi, junk, components and soldering irons) »Yellow Zone: Live Gaming Station and Twitch feed (Ps4, Gamecube)

High school students! Come alone or with your team of up to 4 hackers and participate in Space Apps Next Gen — the first two-day high school space hackathon. You'll compete to build software, open hardware, data visualization, and citizen science platform solutions that contribute to space exploration and solve global challenges that focus on improving life on earth. Challenges this year are: →DATA DIVE: Create an app, data aggregator, or visualization of open NASA data to educate and involve the public with trends and information. →SENSOR YOURSELF: Build something that can allow robots or astronauts to navigate through a hazardous obstacle course relying solely on sensor data. →"SPACE INVADERS": Create a game set in space! Have fun and be creative! →CREATE YOUR OWN: As long as it relates to space science or is an innovative solution to a problem your team can solve, create your own 'Space App'!

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the U-HAC : Unionbank Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create projects that have potential to improve people’s lives -- maybe new and cool apps suited for millenials. Or maybe take a corporate approach and build a fintech project that will help consumers and institutional customers? Be creative...games, virtual reality, IoT projects, robotics, or whatever wild and wonderful idea springs to mind!

Virtual Reality techie? It's your day! Sign up for Western Australia's first virtual reality hackathon. AVRN's VR Hackathon is a 51-hour hackathon event dedicated to both developing entertainment based experiences as well as applying VR to solve industry challenges. Participants will work with leading entrepreneurs and mentors from the VR sector, as well as startup community in Perth, to produce an innovative solution to one of their challenges. To win the hackathon, it is imperative that you bring the most innovative, creative, and applicable ideas to the table. You don't have to be the most experienced developer, or have the best headset, to win.

Come and participate at HackFEST 2016. This year's event will centre around the theme of the wild, the unexpected, and the fun side of life, in short — playing games! Attendees can spend the day programming a collective app / website / program / game to that end, experimenting on their own projects, sharing ideas and even just observing the action. Also, if you want to bring robots to play with that's cool... Robots are cool. Just saying.

Designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, VR enthusiasts, forward-thinkers, curious minds! Ready for a challenge? Think how mobile transformed how you manage your everyday life! Your mobile device is now the center of your daily routine -- alarm clock, workout companion, grocery list, entertainment system, local yellow pages, and more. Now, re-imagine what this daily routine would look like in virtual reality. At the 24 Hours in VR hackathon, your team will choose an hour of the day and create a conceptual mobile VR product to showcase how you can transform daily routines with virtual reality.

Augmented reality enthusiasts! Front-end, back-end, and mobile app developers! Sign up for an Augmented Reality Hackathon, produced by Leading Fusion Team. Come and hack and build AR mobile apps, get fed delicious food, compete for awesome prizes, and meet new people to work on both new and old projects.

Gamesters! Come and try your luck at Poké Hacks—the ultimate 24-hour hackathon to combine your love for coding and your determination to catch 'em all. There are three broad themes for the hackathon: »Map out your game: Build a game using a map based API. »Games people play: Build a game similar to Pokémon Go using the Corona Labs SDK »Wildcard: Use your imagination to make the Pokémon fly!

This is a 24hour event for you to come and participante in making projects that have no value whatsoever. The categories include: Sexy Machine Learning, Freemium Decommodification, Design Like It's 1999, Lamefication, Buzzwords, #Disruptive Browser Plugins, Internet of Poop, Disrupting Dykes, Offline Markov Chain ChatBots, Radical Exclusion Social Hacking, Queueing Modulation, Monetizing Esoteric Languages, Snack Driven Development. There are no limits to your creations but spaces are limited so sign up today!