2024 Winter Season is open submissions!
Join the over 45,000 game developers already competing!
2024 Summer Season - Check out Winners! / Watch Awards Stream
For all commercial games by smaller teams
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For all games using Web3 technologies
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For all games using procedural generation & a bonus prize for best use of Houdini
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For all commercial games by larger teams
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For all non-commercial games and hobby projects
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For all mobile games
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For all student game projects
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Submissions open
Monday, August 12, 2024
10:00:00 EET / UTC+2
Submissions close
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
23:59:59 EEST / UTC+3
54 days left
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The Game Development World Championship, or GDWC for short, is a global open competition for game developers.
Our goal is to celebrate awesome games and the developers behind them. We aim to highlight new and rising talents & teams and work tirelessly to create new opportunities for success for our participants.
Through our history, GDWC has had over 45,000 developers participate from over 150 different countries and we've given out over $1,000,000 worth of prizes and giveaways.
Free
No participation or acceptance fees
Open
Open for all developers and everyone interested in game development
2400+
Games submitted in 2024 Summer Season alone
150+
Countries represented in GDWC
12
Years of GDWC
1,000,000+
USD worth of prizes and giveaways through GDWC history
45,000+
Developers have participated in GDWC
13,000+
Registered teams
