Google Hackathon Showcases Student Innovations in AI-Powered Gaming

Google recently hosted a one-day AI hackathon in London, bringing together computer science and engineering students from UK universities. The event focused on building working applications using Google's AI Studio and presenting them to a panel of Google judges.

Harmehar Kaur, a King's College London student, was part of a five-person team that developed an AI solution called RoomQuest. This application uses the Gemini API to turn physical spaces into AI-generated games. Players upload photographs of their surroundings, allowing Gemini to identify physical objects and create a story with rhyming clues.

The team built the prototype in just four hours using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Vercel, and the Gemini API. Kaur mentioned that designing and deploying a functioning product within such a tight timeframe was an incredible lesson in fast-paced decision-making and collaboration.