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title: 'Page Gitcoin Hackathon, Game on! Tezos'
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title: Page Gitcoin Hackathon, Game on! Tezos
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# 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

