Flourish! is a growing conference community focused on open source, tech and open culture. We wish to see Flourish! grow into a bigger and better vibrant community and thus this contest is being held. Participants will be creating a game or app pertaining to a specific theme, and this year the theme is: Nature!
Eligibility
Anyone is free to join!
Requirements
All we need is your application/game and the judges will take a look at it during the judging period. We will provide USBs so you can share the program with us. If the program is platform specific, we will ask to use your special device to judge the application/game.
Prizes
Indie Game The Movie: Limited Edition
A movie that follows three game developers and their adventure as they release their first major title.
Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
Steam Gift Card
Steam is a platform that allows you to buy full digital PC games via download.
How to enter
This Hackathon is being hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago - Student Center East (750 S. Halsted Street) on the 3rd Floor Conference Center. This event will start promptly after the opening introduction of Flourish!.
Judges
Sunil Rao
Undergraduate Student in Computer Science
Nathan Hurde
PawByte
Tony Phelps
Undergraduate Student in Computer Science
Sean Deitz
Graduate Student in Computer Science
Judging Criteria
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Theme Integration
How creatively did the applicant implement the theme into their software? -
Uniqueness
Is the software unique in any way? Are there any features implemented that really makes it stick out from the crowd? -
Technical Excellence
How well is the code written?