Developer CCP Video games has introduced an internet hackathon for its EVE Frontier recreation. Backed with a prize pool of $80,000, it would run from eleventh to thirty first March.
Referred to as the EVE Frontier x Sui Hackathon 2026, and operating below the headline ‘A Toolkit for Civilization’, the hackathon is designed to encourage builders to create mods operating on the sport’s Sensible Assemblies.
These are configurable in-game buildings starting from turrets and storage models to stargates, which allow builders to create new logic and behaviors inside the recreation, so long as they conform to the essential guidelines enforced by the Sui blockchain. Like every other asset within the recreation, they are often interacted with by gamers, together with being defended or destroyed.
Such mods also can reside exterior of the sport by packages which are linked to the reside universe and its real-time knowledge by way of the Sui blockchain. Examples embrace maps, dashboards, coordination platforms and analytics providers.
Builders will be capable to deploy their entries right into a reside server, the place gamers can use them as a part of the judging course of. A group vote will play a key position in deciding the winners.
“EVE Frontier is constructed on the concept a digital world shouldn’t be static,” stated CCP Video games’ CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.
“That is the subsequent step in recreation modding: the place builders aren’t simply modding a consumer or a software, however modding the server itself in actual time, by programs which are designed to be prolonged. The Hackathon is an invite to discover what occurs when modding turns into a part of a reside universe.”
“EVE Frontier is designed to be constructed by gamers, not simply performed by them,” added Mysten Labs’ CPO Adeniyi Abiodun.
“Our objective is to offer the infrastructure to construct ‘ceaselessly video games,’ moddable worlds that may hold evolving. Whereas EVE and Sui present the muse, it’s the builders who drive innovation.”
The hackathon is open to people and groups of as much as 5. Full particulars together with modding assets can be found at:
