GDWC 2023 Winter Season will open soon with multiple categories to compete in. Check them out below!
GDWC 2023 Summer Season Winners will be announced in a streaming award show on the GDWC Youtube channel on Thursday September 21st at 18:00 EEST / UTC+3
See all Summer Season Finalists here
Submissions open
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
13:00:00 EEST / UTC+3
Submissions close
Sunday, December 31, 2023
23:59:59 EET / UTC+2
115 days left
Awarded for the best mobile game of the Season
Prizes to be announced.
All games on Mobile platforms can participate.
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Awarded for the best non-commercial game of the Season
Non-commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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Awarded for best Real-time competitive multiplayer mobile game using Skillz
Skillz Real-Time Award Submissions Opening Soon!
Win publishing deal & user acquisition funds!
Mobile games with competitive real-time online gameplay and published on Skillz platform can participate.
Skillz Real-time Award Submissions Opening Soon!
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Awarded for the best use of SideFX Houdini in games
Winners get Houdini Core licenses.
Games utilizing SideFX Houdini in any way in their production can participate.
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Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by smaller development teams
Commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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Awarded for best Asynchronous competitive multiplayer mobile game using Skillz
Win publishing deal & user acquisition funds!
Mobile games with competitive asynchronous online gameplay and published on Skillz platform can participate.
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Awarded for the best use of Procedural Generation in games
Winners get Houdini Core licenses.
Games utilizing Procedural Generation in any way and with any tools in their production can participate.
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Awarded to the best game made for Virtual Reality platforms.
Winning team gets a Varjo Aero VR headset.
Win a publishing deal and up to 100 000 € marketing budget to market the game.
Games made for any VR platform can participate.
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Awarded for the best use of web3 technologies in building a fun, compelling, and creative game.
$2,500 Cash Prize + other prizes up to $15,000 value!
Games using Web 3.0 technologies can participate.
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Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by larger development teams
Commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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Awarded to the game with best visual effects.
Prizes to be announced.
All games on any digital platform can participate!
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Five multiplayer games with best community design get $5,000 off of ToxMod voice chat moderation platform! Get free Modulate materials on healthy community building here.
Valco will reward the game with most Immersive Audio with two pairs of Valco ANC Headphones!
Playsense will reward the game with a best trailer of the Season with $5,000 credits to their services
GDWC will honor the Best Action Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate
GDWC will honor the Best Adventure Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate
Join the over 25,000 game developers already competing!
Winners and Finalists get to grab their choice of prizes from the GDWC Prize Pool! Prizes go out in the order of team positions and prizes are available as long as they last.
Publishing deals with major guaranteed minimum User Acquisition spend!
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License for Houdini Core, a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games.
Visit Houdini
Publishing Deal & up to 100 000 € Marketing budget
Visit VRKiwi
Cash prize of $2,500, One-year subscription to Sequence Pro valued at $15,000, and Rare gold Skyweaver cards.
Visit Sequence
Trophies, GDWC Swag, and Digital Certificates
5,000 USD off ToxMod voice chat moderation platform!
Visit Modulate
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 10-year history, GDWC has had over 25,000 developers participate from 145 different countries and we've given out over $500,000 worth of prizes and giveaways.
The Championship is open for everyone interested. Doesn't matter if you're a professional, hobbyist, student, or just curious about game development.
If you've got a game, you're invited to join and submit it!
There are no participation fees or other fees for competing in the Championship.
This way we can ensure that everyone interested can join and it won't be a competition between budgets.
We aim to highlight and showcase the participating games throughout the Championship.
Winners earn bragging rights and awesome prizes provided by our sponsors and partners.
Winners will be announced in streaming award show on the GDWC Youtube channel on Thursday September 21st at 18:00 EEST / UTC+3
Winner Revealed at Awards Show
