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A hackawhhat you say? Well, Let me explain…

Put simply, a hackathon is an event where programmers (usually) have a short amount of time to “hack” together code in order to demo a cool idea or feature, it doesn’t have to be pretty, and it doesn’t have to work fully, but it has to illustrate an idea, a concept.

In our case (as with most) the hackathon ran from 6pm on Sunday to 7am on Monday, that’s over 12 hours of solid coding… tiring, but extremely fun! Don’t let all this talk of code fool you however, there wasn’t just a team of people haplessly typing on keyboards and writing code, we also had some teams working offline as well.

Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Simon and Tom planning how their HTML5 game will work
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Tom and Rob in the early stages of their projects
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Camilo doing some Zombie attack recovery planning
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Keeping the adrenalin running, a quick 1am Nerf battle
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Ben & Bryony turned our mundane shed into a DJ Booth
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Our creative team getting their hands dirty with plasticine and some stop motion
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
Still awake, and still working, daylight had returned!
Miniclip Hackathon 2011
A quick mid project demo

Of course I had to chronicle the events of the night. By the end of the sprint we were tired, but not defeated, although we did all go home and sleep…

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