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WHAT IS OVERWOLF?

TL;DR – It’s a software client that allows any web developer to add features to PC games.

Overwolf is a platform that was built to make playing games more easy, fun and social. Technically, it’s a C++ engine which allows the integration of web apps written in HTML and JS, into client games. It has a client, AKA the “Overwolf client”, and a store, AKA the “Overwolf Appstore”. In a sense, it’s an advanced version of Steam’s shift+tab, built on top of an open platform.

With Overwolf, every web developer can add features to their favorite games, in the form of a single page web-apps. These web-apps can do whatever web-apps can normally do, but they get a major buff with the Overwolf SDK. With the Overwolf SDK, a web app can call functions like screen capture, or get notified in real-time when an important game event occurred, like a kill, a death, gold was earned and more. 100 CS after 10 minutes? We know if it happened or not, in real-time!

Who are we?

We’re a bunch of gamers and geeks, passionate about creating content for the games that we play. This is our anthem. In this event we’re focusing on one of the games we love the most: League of Legends! In Overwolf, Three times a week at 2:30pm, comes “Game Time!”… We stop all coding and development work to play the games we love. We end up playing League 95% of the time ☺. We can’t wait to see what cool ideas would come from the community, and look forward to some great apps that would make playing League even more fun, easy or social!

Cool stuff people are building on Overwolf:

Does working with Overwolf suck?

It doesn't.

LOLWIZ + OVERWOLF ROCKS!

In honor of the upcoming League of Legends app challenge Team LoLwiz would like to extend our gratitude and another warm "thank you" to Overwolf. In brief, we have had a kick ass journey with Overwolf! Our project began back in Q1 of 2014. Since then we have enjoyed amazing growth and success largely thanks to continued platform support, collaboration, and improvements by the Overwolf team. If you are a developer and as passionate about games as we are then look no further. Overwolf offers a wealth of tools, support, and opportunity for your future gaming app or idea. For those of you who are not developers, Overwolf's JavaScript based [SDK] means you can easily find a resource to bring your game app or idea to reality. With its simplified ability to inject your app directly into the game of your choice, Overwolf's overlay platform is unrivaled, unparalleled, and quite simply... extraordinary. So our suggestion is to get out there, start coding and let Overwolf do the heavy lifting for you... because regardless of your business model - whether paid, unpaid, ad based or subscription based, Overwolf's only limit is your imagination

Team LoLwiz

Monetizing your app to help support its future (and yours!)

Some Overwolf apps already make thousands of dollars a month from advertising. Apart from creating something wonderful that will enhance the experience of millions of players, you could also make a living for yourself. Take a look at LoLwiz as an example - it became the full time job of its developers.

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION

In order to participate in the challenge you must sign up and submit your app by December 4th. Sign up early, to get direct email updates. You can find additional information about the submission process and Overwolf apps at developers.overwolf.com. Any submissions after December 4th will be disqualified from the challenge. Be sure to read the full terms!

FIRST DRAFT

Please submit your first draft by October 23rd before you start coding, so that we can make sure the app meets Riot’s guidelines. This first draft should consist of: