List of hackathons about video-games in 2017

Developers, digital designers, graphic designers, actuaries, financial marketing professionals! Interested in creating a game that's going to help people plan for their retirement? Groupama SA invites you to sign up to participate in the Retirement Serious Game Challenge hackathon. You'll be asked to develop solutions to one of the following challenge themes: »Projecting: How much do people need to retire? »Retirement planning: Engaging young people in planning for retirement »Stress/Anxiety Relief: Help potential retirees identify their source of anxiety and help them cope.

Professional game designers, or interested gamers who would like to develop your own game! Kartfabrique invites you to participate in Hack the Game - Prison Island Hackathon. You'll be challenged to brainstorm to create an awesome 'grand finale' for the Prison Island game. Compete for terrific prizes. The winning team's concept will become part of the escape game from Prison Island and you'll be immortalized in a mural in Prison Island.

Students, curators, culture managers, storytellers, professionals in and around Sienna! Come and participate in #hackMTRSiena. You'll be challenged to design and create an innovative high tech guided tour of the museum at Santa Maria della Scala. Leverage all your design and technical skills to provide a new and compelling way to deliver museum visitors with a awesome experience of the museum's collections.

Tasmanian game developers! MONA and the Tasmanian Game Development Society invite you to sign up and participate in Tasjam Utopia. You'll be challenged to build an awesome game for one of the following themes. Select one or combine the two! It's your choice: »Utopia »Overthrow the one percent

Developers, designers and AR enthusiasts in and around London! Come sign-up and participate in the EdTech Augmented Reality Hackathon. You'll network and collaborate in a small team with like-minded AR-enthusiasts to build an Augmented Reality (AR) experience. You'll be given a challenge theme and in just over 24 hours, you must create a unique AR application connected to your own personal interpretation of the theme. Your only limitations are time and your imagination.

Gaming enthusiasts in and around Dublin Ireland! Come and participate in the Global Game Jam — the world's largest game jam event, where you can collaborate with like-minded gamesters to create awesome new games! You're invited to explore new technology tools and testing your skills by designing, creating and testing your own new game — all in less than 48 hours.

Gaming enthusiasts in Peru! Come and participate in the local Arequipa iteration of the 2017 Global Game Jam — the world's largest game jam event, where you can collaborate with like-minded gamers to create awesome new games! You're invited to explore new technology tools and testing your skills by designing, creating and testing your own new game — all in less than 48 hours.

Students in and around Redmond, WA! Microsoft invites you to sign up and participate in the Def Hacks Hackathon for Students. Only requirement is that you must be aged 22 or less! All levels of coders are welcome! You can learn new stuff as you collaborate and compete for swag and awesome prizes such as drones, robots, and even cash!

Coders, designers, hackers, techies in and around Honolulu! Do you have a yen to create something that's terrific, but has absolutely no value at all? DevLeague Hawaii invites you to participate in the Stupid Shit No One In Hawaii Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. So sign up today and build something awesomely valueless!