List of hackathons about video-games in 2017

Virtual reality enthusiasts, researchers, designers, engineers, communicators and hackers in the Seattle area! We Make Realities invites you to participate in the Exploring Design for Social VR: Mindful Realities Makeathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate to come up with innovative ideas for social VR features. You're not building a virtual reality product, but rather developing an open source resource that others can experiment with and build.

University and college students in the greater Pittsburgh area! Are you interested in helping combat online harassment? Toyz Nation Gaming League invites you to participate in TNGL Presents: HackHarassment. The event is open to all students at all skill levels, majors, and schools. You'll learn about the ideas and solutions that can help solve the epidemic of online harassment. Come help #HackHarassment and compete for great prizes in the following categories: »Social Media »Gaming »App Development/IOT/Wearables, and »Music/Visual Arts.

Sponsored and presented by Genuine, the 2017 HackBeanpot competition features an immersive weekend-long workshop bringing together Boston’s up-and-coming collegiate developers to learn about new technologies and work intensively on software and design projects of their choice. Participating teams of all skill levels will show off their coding prowess and compete to create original projects incorporating APIs and services from companies such as Google, Amazon, IBM Watson, Spotify and Twitter. Winning projects, which are awarded prizes in various categories, will be judged based o original coding and design skills that articulate clear use cases for each team’s final product. Now in its fifth year, HackBeanpot emphasizes creating a diverse event, uniting college students around New England to work and learn as a team all while harnessing their creativity to develop something truly original. The three-day event also features a variety of presentations and hands-on workshops led by members of the region’s most prominent tech companies and start-ups. Additionally, each company provides mentors to help teams navigate through the development process of their projects or provide a boost to give a product that final push through the proverbial finish line. Many hackathons focus on specific themes or problems that need to be solved, with winners picked on how a project best solves a particular issue. HackBeanpot avoids this philosophy in favor of letting each team work on their own projects, this year with an added spotlight on “#InventTogether,” a phrase which originated from presenting partner Genuine.

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Hackathon. You'll be faced with some of the trickiest problems in AI/VR -- building a smart avatar for VR games, enhancing VR/MR simulations using deep learning, SpatialOS, and computer vision, or deigning and building the best AI/VR app in a short 24 hours. You'll have access to leading experts to mentor you in both AI and VR, and there'll be pre-trained smartbots, data sets and VR headsets, courtesy of event partners.

Developers, graphic designers, UX techies, entrepreneurs! Are you interested in the application of virtual reality to the retail sector? Valtech invites you to sign up to participate in the Virtual Reality for Retail Hackathon. You'll be challenged to conceive, design and prototype a virtual reality project that has the ability to disrupt the retail sector.

New Zealand designers, developers, artists, filmmakers, animators, project managers, entrepreneurs! If you're interested in the merging of real and virtual worlds, then you should sign up to participate in New Zealand's first ever Mixed Reality Hackathon. You don't need to be an expert -- you just need to have a passion for the magic of mixed reality.

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Conference and following AI+VR Rise Hackathon. At the conference, prior to the hackathon, you'll get to explore how AI and machine learning can be used in virtual or mixed reality environments. You'll also be exposed to state-of-the art developments in both AI and VR that you will be able to apply in the hackathon.

Children from 7 to 12 years old! Are you interested in virtual reality technology? Can you get your parents to bring you to Luxembourg? Then SECURITYMADEIN.LU invites you to sign up to participate in Hack4Kids @ Game of Code. You'll take part in a challenge based on the world of Alice in Wonderland. This Hack4Kids will be given in English, French and Luxembourgish.

Developers and designers from all over Europe! IT One invites you to sign up to participate in the Game of Code event in Luxembourg. Come with your team or form one at the event! You'll have the opportunity to network with 200 peers and compete in one of the following challenges: »Distorted Reality: a totally open challenge -- create a VR/AR or storytelling experience »Open Data Challenge: create a new, smart app that helps improve the quality of life in Luxembourg

Virtual reality hacker enthisiasts in Idaho! Treefort Music Fest invites you to sign up to participate in the Hackfort Immerse-a-thon 2017. Collaborate in a team and you'll be challenged to design content and apps specifically for virtual and augmented reality environments.