On March 10 2023, Lumighost Arena contest ended, an international hackathon among gamedev specialists. Participation in the competition was free and open to anyone who wants to compete in game development.
This competition was founded this year by Lumighost, a company that creates custom games and gamified apps to order. The hackathon has received the appropriate name - "Lumighost Arena", and it is focused on the search for new talents among the specialists of the game dev market.
The topic of the competition entries for the Lumighost Arena hackathon for 2023 is the development of Arena Gameplay Mechanic as part of the creation of an RPG game on Unity with multiplayer support. The central problem is poor, low-quality game design in multiplayer games. It is with this problem that the participants of the competition had to cope and present their solution in the form of a developed game.
The results of the competition can be found on the official website of the hackathon at the link: https://arena.lumighost.com/winners.html. The contestants fought for cash prizes, as well as the opportunity to finalize their project with professional developers for free and place the finished project in the AppStore and PlayMarket.
The organizer of the competition was Maksym Tytarenko, who is a co-owner and COO of Lumighost, engaged in custom game development. The company is a strong expert in the gaming market providing unique solutions for its clients. In the last year alone, Lumighost specialists have developed gaming products with a total capital of over $5 million. One of the company's achievements is the development of its own custom game Haunted Houses.
The event has an international level, allowing participants from different countries to participate in the Lumighost Arena competition. As stated in the rules of the competition, both single and team participation in the hackathon was allowed. The competition took place from 6 to 10 March, when the names of the winners were announced. The first place was taken by Artur Kashuba, who presented the game Ghost Tanks.
The Lumighost Arena hackathon is of great importance for the development of the gaming industry, since the main goal and objective of the competition is to solve the problem of poor game design in multiplayer games with the help of the works proposed by the contestants. This event helps solve an important problem in the gaming market, which means it is able to influence the emergence of new positive trends in the process of professional game creation.
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