Skip to content
HackWinnerDB

Gaming Hackathon Winners

207 winning projects · 98 hackathons

Best Retro Design

Click Samurai

Journey through the ruins of a dystopian world defeating monsters with your electrified sword. Will you be able to beat the boss?

Hack-A-Damien · 2026

GamingCreative Tools
Unity
Source pending review
WiC: Best Game Hack

Connectunes

New York Times Games style minigames but based on your personal Spotify statistics!

WiCHacks '26 · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
FigmaJavaScript
Source pending review
Best Beginner Hack

Cry Baby's Garden

A eerie gardening game to arouse the alien's deepest emotions...

Liftoff · 2026

ProductivityGaming
Python
Source pending review
Best Game

CyberBug 2077

CyberBug 2077 is a neon bugrunner where you avoid enemy debuggers and corrupt an infinite codeworld. The best way to learn code is by breaking, gaming, and surv

SillyHacks 2026 · 2026

CybersecurityGaming
Source pending review
Best Wild West (Opt-in)

Dead... Not Alive!

A little game about a town on the borders of the Wild West. Many wanted individuals are hiding out in the town, attracting a stampede of competing bounty hunter

HooHacks 2026 · 2026

EducationSocial Impact
Unity
Source pending review
DE
Best Beginner Hack

Deadline Dash

Deadline Dash turns school stress into an arcade reflex game, measuring reaction time, accuracy, focus, panic, and leaderboard scores under pressure.

JAMHacks 10 · 2026

Gaming
ArduinoC++
Source pending review
Best Physical Design

Dia Eiri Tir

A worker placement/territory control boardgame based on Irish mythology where players gather faith from fae and spirits to ascend to victory.

The Cambridge Game Jam 2026 · 2026

GamingMedia
Source pending review
Best Beginner Hack

Dreamopia

Unlimited Creativites, Endless Dream

CareXR Hack · 2026

Social ImpactAR/VR
Source pending review
Best use of AI

EduPal

Turn messy notes into flashcards, summaries, and fun study games. EduPal transforms passive studying into interactive learning so students remember more in less

Witathon 2026 · 2026

EducationGaming
JavaScriptPython
Source pending review
Most Entertaining Game

Everchanging Grimore

An LLM Dungeon Master tracks your playstyle to compose unique spells and adaptive enemy spawns in this reactive, AI-driven roguelike.

Hackiethon 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
GeminiPythonUnity
Source pending review
[birmingHack] - Best Newcomers

Evil Magic Chess 3! (there is no 1 or 2)

1v1 Mini-Chess best of five with deck building involving powerful cards which completely change the game!

birmingHack 2.0 · 2026

CybersecurityGaming
Source pending review
Gold: Best Overall

EVIL PTY

Lock it up. Game it out. Win your phone back.

HARDWIRED 2026 MUEEC X CISSA · 2026

EducationIoT
C++
Source pending review
Best Retro Design

FlintKnock

Flint Knock is a fast-paced top-down horde survival located in a dark forest, where every shot is a movement decision.

Hack-A-Damien · 2026

GamingCreative Tools
Unity
Source pending review
MLH - Best Use of DigitalOcean Prize

Flock

A shared goal space where people grow together.

Stevens QuackHacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
FastAPIGeminiPostgreSQLPython+1
Source pending review
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas

FloorSens by The Mangos

FloorSense application looks at floor plans, borrowing the same spatial thinking used in tactical games like Rainbow Six Siege and CS:GO to assess real architec

SotonHack · 2026

Gaming
ClaudeElevenLabsKotlinMongoDB+2
Source pending review
Most Technical

FPGA hexagon video game

Written in verilog, runs on an FPGA.

The Cambridge Game Jam 2026 · 2026

GamingMedia
Source pending review
Most Creative Theme Interpretation

Get Stoned

its a card game :)

The Cambridge Game Jam 2026 · 2026

GamingMedia
Source pending review
GR
Best Hack

GreenPrompt

GreenPrompt: Smarter prompts, fewer tokens, lower impact.

LakerHacks 2026 · 2026

IoTGaming
Gemini
Source pending review
MLH - Best Use of Gemini API Prize

Guiden: Multimodal Mobile AI Guide for the Visually Impaired

Guiden is a voice-controlled AI assistant that helps blind users navigate obstacles, sense lighting, and identify objects using on-device detection, Gemini mult

Stevens QuackHacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
FlutterGeminiPythonRedis
Source pending review
Best Overall

Hestia: find your home

Extends Rightmove with enhanced filtering options, AI-powered search tools, and improved data visualisations to help you find your perfect home.

Bath Hack 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
PostgreSQLPythonPyTorchReact+2
Source pending review
Best Design

Idle Pet Village

An infinite RPG where the story is never pre-written, and the world is drawn the moment you look at it.

AI Game Week · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
GeminiReact
Source pending review
Best Beginner Project (College/University)

Jayhawkers Against Hackers

A tower defense study game themed around Jayhawks and Foxes.

HackKU26 · 2026

Gaming
Source pending review
MLH - Best Use of Presage Prize

mediQuack

mediQuack allows users to capture Pulse Rate & Breathing Rate, and to anchor that data onto Solana blockchain, to have standardized graphs for doctors, and prov

Stevens QuackHacks 2026 · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
LlamaMistralPythonSolana+1
Source pending review
Best Game overall

Meme Court: Objection!

An AI-powered courtroom game where you defend the internet's most absurd cases. Choose evidence, cross-examine witnesses, and convince an AI Judge with your mos

AI Game Week · 2026

Artificial IntelligenceEducation
ClaudeCloudflareTypeScriptVercel
Source pending review