EVE Frontier’s hackathon is underway, and one early showcase is a Flappy Bird-style clone

CCP Games has kicked off a new hackathon for EVE Frontier, its sci-fi survival MMO, built around the game’s modifiable “smart assemblies” and external app tools. According to the official post, the contest runs through March 31 and offers an $80,000 prize pool.

One of the first projects CCP has highlighted is Flappy Frontier, a clear Flappy Bird-style mini-game. CCP says it includes ranked play, a live leaderboard, and a weekly prize pool. The studio also said some entries are being made by participants with no previous coding experience using what it called “agentic coding” tools.

The hackathon is focused on player-made mods for smart assemblies, along with external apps tied to EVE Frontier. That’s notable because CCP has previously tied those systems to the game’s blockchain-based tech, even as the studio has been careful about how it describes that side of the project.

For now, though, the most visible early example is a simple arcade clone rather than something that shows off deeper MMO systems. There’s still time for that to change before the event wraps at the end of March.

EVE Frontier is a survival-focused spinoff set in the broader EVE universe, and CCP has been positioning player-created tools and systems as a big part of its identity. This hackathon looks like the latest test of how much players can actually build with those features while the game is still taking shape.