Gameathon-2020

Gameathon-2020

An Inter-Collegiate Game Development Competition (7th and 8th Nov 2020)

Gameathon is a flagship event of the department of Information Science and Engineering of Jyothy Institute of Technology. This time it was the third iteration after the grand success of the first two versions. Due to the ongoing pandemic situation this time it was a completely online event.

Only difference this time was that the event was an Inter collegiate event rather than Intra-collegiate. One more feather to the cap of the event was the association with Queppelin Technology Pvt. Ltd. It is a company which works in the domain of AR/VR and Game development. Three of our students of 3rd year are working in Queppelin as Interns. Through them, they got to know about the event and were more than happy to get associated with it. Our fabulous volunteers of Dept of ISE managed to get around 20 teams from 10 different
colleges registered for training and the competition. They also trained the participants who were mostly new to the Unity environment and Game Development domain. Object oriented Programming concepts , Unity, Character Design, Music for Gaming and other aspects of game development were covered in a week long online training. During which, a resource person by name Mr. Divya Surana who works as AR/VR Specialist in Queppelin gave a nice introductory ame Development.
Finally on the day of the event, Mr. Prafulla Mathur, Co-Founder, Queppelin inaugurated the event and gave a pep talk to the participants to encourage them to complete the game. Our beloved Principal, Dr. Gopalakrishna K also graced the occasion and supported us along with our Head of the Department, Dr. Harshvardhan Tiwari.
Our mentors continuously monitored and guided the teams over Google Meet and made sure that the teams completed the development of the game at hand. Three broad themes were given to the participants and they had to choose one or more to conceptualise the game. Our Judges were Mr. Divya Surana and Mr. Dhanish Kumar (MobiUX). They interacted with the participants and judged their works.
Mr. Prafulla Mathur announced the winners of the event in a valedictory function. Our Principal, HoD thanked all the participants and volunteers for successfully completing the event.

Following were the Winners of the event in various categories.
1. Best audio for game – Team Whiplash from M S RAMAIYA (1500Rs/-)
2. Best Theme for game – Team Pirate from J I T (1500Rs/-)
3. Best character Design for game – Team Tachyon from K S I T (1500Rs/-)
4. 3rd place – Team V4tech from JYOTHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2000Rs/-)
5. 2nd place – Team Cr@zy gamers from R V COLLEGE (3000Rs/-)
6. 1st place – Team 404 from JYOTHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (3500Rs/-)

The winners were awarded with Cash prizes, Certificates and T-Shirts. A soft copy of the certificate was mailed to all the participants of the competition.
Report Compiled By,
Mr. Vadiraja A, Dept of ISE,
Gameathon Faculty Coordinator.