Leeds Hack

Our wonderful friends at eBuyer are ALREADY looking forward to Christmas and have set a challenge of EPIC proportions…

The Ebuyer Winter Olympics – Game

Aim

To create an open, one-level game based on highest score, which will incorporate gaming characters attempting to obtain Ebuyer products with obstructions along the way and a leaderboard that users can monitor.

Setting the scene

To be launched prior to Christmas, the game will have a Winter Olympics theme with relevant challenges. The idea is that this ‘Olympics’ theme can be developed further for the Summer Olympics 2012.

Suggestions

• Cross-country skiing route challenge measured by distance, where the skier must collect Ebuyer products while avoiding trees or spectators throwing snowballs.
• Toboggan push, again measured by distance, while balancing Ebuyer products on the toboggan.
• Curling push, measured by distance, while avoiding Ebuyer products lined up either side of the curling lane.

Examples

http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml

Ebuyer product suggestions

Laptops

Tablets

Hard drives

TVs

Barebones (on the skeleton?)

[This is open to whichever products are most suitable for developed game]

Key requirements

Ebuyer.com logo

Email address data capture

Leaderboard that can be accessed and monitored by users to encourage competition

Open, one-level challenge

Winter Olympics theme.

This game will be placed onto the eBuyer homepage (or the Christmas page, they don’t tell me information like that)….

SO what is the prize for this most epic of challenges - A Samsung SyncMaster S24A350H LCD LED 24″ HDMI Monitor for each member of the team!… That’s right a Samsung SyncMaster S24A350H LCD LED 24″ HDMI Monitor EACH!!!

Coding Futures

Get ready and arm yourselves for the Coding Futures team are bringing Nerf!

Our challenge is simple, we are bringing 3 APIs with us to Leeds Hack
our Payment API, Partner API and Forex API and we want you to do
something cool, witty or clever with them. We recognise that Payments
can be dull so we are looking for something that makes us smile or
blows our mind maybe both.

What we have to give away, first off anyone who gets a product from
Leeds hack to production we will be giving them 6 months without our
Fees (other gateway fees will still apply).

In addition to that small incentive we also have a selection of Nerf
guns to give away to a winning team or individuals.

The wonderful folks at Esendex are offering a £100 amazon voucher split evenly between the team who best uses the Esendex SMS API, We will be providing each LeedsHack attendee with a developer account (WHICH YOU CAN KEEP!) and over the weekend you will get an allocation of free SMS’s (WHICH YOU CAN NOT KEEP!)

So thats £100 in awesome amazon vouchers to split between ya….(and I’m sure we can convince them to chuck in some SMS credit as well )

Affiliate Window and buy.at reward innovation and creativity at LeedsHack 2

Both Affiliate Window and buy.at have built a reputation for technical innovation, by offering first class tracking, reporting and promotional tools to thousands of online publishers across the UK. In 2008 Affiliate Window’s ShopWindow toolset won them ‘Best Network Innovation’ at the A4U Awards. Its product comparison functionality continues to power affiliate sites and at its core is product data from AW’s portfolio of online retailers.

As sponsors of LeedsHack it went without saying that we would offer a prize for a challenge, but when Dom told us we could focus one specifically around our product, we decided to up the ante a little…

So, we challenge all LeedsHackers to take the product data we supply (in the form of datafeeds) and create something unique, remarkable, quirky, funny or interactive to help you make money through product links. It can be anything you like, but to be in with a chance of winning, it has to help you drive more traffic to, and make more money from, our advertisers.

In return, we will reward each member of the winning team with a little something from the world leaders in innovation – the new Apple TV, PLUS £100 of iTunes vouchers to start building a collection of movies, videos, apps and games!

So get your thinking caps on now and we look forward to seeing you on the 6^th.

Affiliate Window & buy.at 

Dom’s Note – The full datafeed contains about 8.5 million products and will be supplied when you arrive at the venue, I will try and get a sample CSV up this week..