--- tags: hackathons, tezos title: Page Gitcoin Hackathon, Game on! Tezos --- # Game on! Tezos ## Gaming on Tezos competition When new technologies appear, it is in our human nature to first explore them through play. The exploratory, low stakes nature of play creates an open space protected from systemic pushback and anxiety, allowing innovation to thrive and develop. We firmly hold the belief that the toys of today will be the tools of tomorrow. In this spirit, we would like to invite you to hack with us, explore the technology of Tezos, and build toys and games that delight, entertain, and help pave the way for blockchain becoming part of our everydays in the future. Today, many games use blockchain technologies as a hype factor without making deep and thought through use of them... while many *'blockchain games'* seem to relegate the idea of play, of actually being a game, to an afterthought. Let us challenge you to change this - to show us how a game can be designed around blockchain technologies and the experience of play at the same time. Game on! ### Info #### 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) Submissions must have a working prototype deployed live on the current testnet Submissions must have a writeup on what the product backlog for reaching 'completion' looks like Submissions must list the addresses of their token contracts #### Prizes in each category 1st Prize $25,000 in tez (XTZ) at the time of payout 2nd Prize $10,000 in tez (XTZ) at the time of payout 3rd Prize $5,000 in tez (XTZ) at the time of payout Total prizes: $200,000 in tez #### Developer resources Join the Tezos Hackathon Discord for all the info around this and future hackathons: https://discord.gg/AMC6YKV8Ks 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