This weekend almost 100 people signed up to an event called BrumHack, which is basically a hackathon event held in Birmingham for university students. It was supported by a variety of sponsors such as Bloomberg, Paypal / Braintree, etc. Prizes were given out to those who could use their API the best in their piece of software they wrote in 24 hours.

However, we went for something a little different. Having taken part in Ludum Dare before a few times, I knew that if we could pull off writing a game in 24 hours it would be great. All that “hard work” paid off, and we actually won a Raspberry Pi each for our game!

While everyone was making apps that could make purchases, or using a huge range of data, we made a goat themed procedurally generated hat collecting arcade game! While the screenshots don’t necessarily make the game, you really have to play it to understand why it’s brilliant :L

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Click here to play our game “Manic Mountain”

(PS. I have been writing this blog post on having 0 (zero) hours of sleep since 7am yesterday. That means I’ve been awake for 33 hours at the time I originally wrote this. Send help, quick!)