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Play Everywhere: The Build with Snap Games Lensathon

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Play Everywhere: The Build with Snap Games Lensathon

About This Hackathon

About the challenge Build a game on the most fun messaging platform: Snapchat. You’ve built games for mobile, and now bring them to hundreds of millions ready to play, post, and share. Snapchat isn’t just for selfies; it’s a hub for mobile games between friends. Check out the guide on building games for Snapchat. This Lensathon asks you to build Game Lenses that turn a friendly challenge into games worth sharing. Your submission needs to belong to one of the following categories: 2D Games (Leaderboard, Quick Play), 3D Games (Bitmoji-centric, character controller), Turn Based (Multiplayer), Longform (Daily Challenges, Persistent data, story games). Design games that will be popular with Snapchatters. There is a pool of over $30,000 in prizes! Get started Build games for Snapchat with the powerful, free tool, Lens Studio, which is easy to pick up for anyone familiar with other game engines. The tool is based in Javascript and Typescript. But there are lots of ways to build without coding too.
Download Lens Studio here

Find tutorials and documentation for Lens Studio here

Watch a tutorial series about building games on Snapchat here

Learn more about the advantages of developing games for Snapchat here

Get inspired by seeing the winners of a previous Snapchat Games Lensathon here

  Event Dates
Dec. 10, 2025
to Feb. 3, 2026
  Location

Online

  Organizer

Snapchat

  Prizes

$30,000

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