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tags: hackathons, tezos

title: Game changers, build on Tezos
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## Hackathon: Bring your game on Tezos

Bring your game on, in order to create your playful reality on the Tezos blockchain! This one month long hackathon will focus upon

Come up with an engaging game, making use of the technical opportunities blockchain offers. Whereas it will be a simple NFT collecting game, a game where player can buy items sold on a decentralized marketplace or a use of token based economic systems, make sure it will be fun to play! Playfullness will be rewarded
for example a more educative game on DeFi game about markets and trading,

Judging criteria:

Potential impact: Envisioned impact of your project
Novelty: Innovativeness of the project
Technical: Does the code work? Is it secure?
Design and UX: How is the look and feel and how intuitive is the design?

Track requirements:

Submissions must be open source (MIT license)
Submission with a working prototype must be deployed live on the Florence testnet
Submissions must list the addresses of their token contracts

Prices

First Prize (1 team)
$15,000 in tez (XTZ)

Second Prize (3 teams)
$10,000 in tez (XTZ)

Third Prize (6 teams)
$5,000 in tez (XTZ)

Winning team members will be added to priority list for future bounties and have the possibility to obtain a follow-up grant by the Tezos Foundation.

Developer resources
For those who are completely new to Tezos development, the dev portal is a good place to start https://developers.tezos.com/

Tacode, a p2p learning platform for Tezos teaches you how to build a Dapp on Tezos while earning tez
https://tacode.dev

OpenTezos is an open-source wiki on all topics Tezos
https://opentezos.com/

A guide how to mint NFTs on Tezos and how to build a simple NFT platform
https://medium.com/ecad-labs-inc/how-to-mint-nfts-on-tezos-using-taquito-and-pinata-15a407078495

A react provider for Dapps to easily setup connection to Beacon/Taquito wallets
https://github.com/tz-contrib/components-library/tree/develop/packages/react-wallet-provider

Awesomelist for Tezos
https://github.com/tz-contrib/awesome-tezos

Tezos Stack Exchange is a useful resource to where you can see answers to technical questions regarding Tezos
https://tezos.stackexchange.com/

If you do not find answers to your technical questions on the Tezos Stack Exchange, join the Tezos Developers telegram channel and ask away
https://t.me/TezosDevelopers