List of hackathons about video-games in 2016

Coders, designers, techies! Come join the fun at Code Network Winter -- a 54-hour event to prototype projects and compete for awesome prizes. Code Network Winter is a competition where the goal is simply to build the coolest stuff possible! Previous hackathon competitors have included in-browser desktop environments, a city wide pong mobile game, business validated and built mobile applications, machine learning generated art, multi-player robotic arm game and many more projects. The breadth of projects at a Code Network Hackathon is significant. Judging criteria is simply based on the most impressive project. Whether it be from technical achievement, entrepreneurial gusto or straight up coolness factor. You must be able to demonstrate what has been created, this is not a pitch contest.

Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator is co-hosting a Hackathon with Philips. Teams of 3-4 students are invited to compete in creating the best software solution to a B2B and B2C hardware problem.

Sign up for VR Weekend Bootcamp in Unity for HTC Vive & Google's Project Tango. Learn how to build a world with Unity and inhabit the world with the HTC Vive Virtual Reality Kite. At this intensive three day VR boot camp, you'll learn how to build fully functional VR experiences using Unity. You’ll learn how to build worlds, develop truly cross-platform VR experiences, and get introduced to the New York VR community. With this grounding in VR fundamentals, you'll explore the unique features of modern VR equipment and how to develop for each. You'll also be introduced to developing Augmented Reality and 360 Film with Unity®.

Techies with programming/design/business experience and expertise! Sign up for the Paperclip x BitwiseHacks Invitational -- a software application-oriented hackathon for Hong Kong's top tech talent.

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the first 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!

Women coders! Come and participate in the 3rd annual GirlCode hackathon -- 30 hours of non-stop programming. The hackathon is open to all females, who will work collaboratively to create a website, game, or mobile app that addresses a selected real world challenge. No prior programming experience is required and registration is free. You can participate in teams of minimum 3 and maximum 6. So come along...be creative...and build cool products! Show the way for more women to join the technology industry.

Asia VR developers! Sign up for Virtual Reality Hackathon Asia 2016. Meet like-minded VR enthusiasts to create new virtual reality ideas and projects.

Interested in Artificial Intelligence? Predict the future with Machine Learning. Join Microsoft’s Canada for two learning sessions and learn how to execute experiments using Azure Machine Learning Studio.  Students will receive a Launch Zone Machine Learning Certificate of Participation after two sessions!

Game architects, designers and developers! Come help WillowTree make their Battlebots code-based game better. Come and have fun, learn something new and contribute to improving Battlebots. Help improve the game's user experience, its infrastructure and its API.

Come, listen, learn and interact at the AI Meetup with Baidu Research: →Q&A with Baidu Chief Scientist Andrew Ng →Presentations from researchers from Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab •Bryan Catanzaro on HPC and Deep Learning •Eric Battenberg on Baidu's Deep Speech 2