Our Theme

This year, our theme “Connect” is all about building bridges between ideas, people and possibilities. Connection is a core part of game development, whether you are connecting with friends across your favorite titles or connecting to servers in order to play the games you love. We want to focus on creating meaningful connections that go beyond this event. This includes connecting with your new teams, but also networking, making friends, meeting industry celebrities. Our theme is meant to be open ended because we want to see where you take this, and what type of connections you want to make.

Requirements

What to Build

Whatever you would like! Our event is open to any type of game, tool, software project, whatever you are most interested in.

What to Submit

We require an executable or instructions on how to access your project. You can upload your project to platforms like itch.io, Fortnite Creative, Roblox Creative, etc, but you must explain how we access your game and what we need in order to run your project.

We also encourage documentation and any other relevant materials that explains your creative process so we can see what you've been up to the last 24 hours!!

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Prizes

$4,500 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

2nd Place
1 winner

3rd Place
1 winner

Oakley Award
1 winner

Nexus GG Award
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Callie Browning

Callie Browning
Wolfjaw Studios

Tom Carmona

Tom Carmona
Wolfjaw Studios

Ryan Jones

Ryan Jones
Wolfjaw Studios

Jamie Toeg

Jamie Toeg
Wolfjaw Studios

Dennis McCorry

Dennis McCorry
Rochester Institute of Technology

Judging Criteria

  • Relevance to Theme
    We will be evaluating how well your project relates to our theme "Connect" and how you implemented it throughout your project.
  • Creativity
    We want to see what kind of cool projects you will come up with in such a short amount of time. Did you try something new? Something out of the box? A twist on an old idea? We will be evaluating how creative you tackled this event.
  • Execution
    This criteria will focus on how you executed your project. Were you able to complete it? Is it able to run? Are there any critical bugs?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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