The Innovation and Development Fund hosted the Serious Games Hackathon 2019 Posted on:2641-01-18 Like the previous period, the Innovation and Development Fund will host "Serious Games Hackathon 2019" and will provide teams with the necessary facilities for developing the game in the event During the talks, Dr. Siavash Malekifar, The Vice President of Development and Innovation Fund, agreed to this Fund will host to hold the event "Serious Games Hackathon 2019". According to the news, as well as last year, participating teams will be guests of the Innovation and Development Fund and they will compete and develop the games there. During this 48-hour event on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on December 18th,19th and 20th, the teams who registered at Hackathon's will compete and produce a serious game (eventually up to demo level) with an upcoming tourism advertising and management theme by guiding mentors. The winners will be announced on December 26th, 2019, after presenting their games and evaluating by referees. In addition to being awarded 15, 7, and 3 million Tomans respectively to the first to the third winner. Hackathon teams will receive direct and indirect supports. It has also been attempted, as far as possible, to select teams, after the award process, to take advantage of acceleration programs, introduce games to investors, and contract serious game customization sets. Back