Join the largest game dev competition in the world!
Open for all!
Free to join!
Fame & prizes!
Prize pool $660,000!
Open for all!
Free to join!
Fame & prizes!
Prize pool $660,000!
Immersal SDK Award Winner
Made-with-Houdini Award Winner
Studio Award Winner
Action Award Winner
Indie Award Winner
Procedural Award Winner
Hobby Award Winner
AR & VR Award Winner
Mobile Award Winner
Gcore Cloud Award Winner
Best Web3 Game Winner
GDWC 2023 Winter Season is open with multiple categories to compete in and prizes ranging from service credits & software licenses to publishing deals and up to $100,000 in marketing & UA funding! Check out the categories below!
Submissions open
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
13:00:00 EEST / UTC+3
Submissions close
Sunday, December 31, 2023
23:59:59 EET / UTC+2
28 days left
Awarded for best Asynchronous competitive multiplayer mobile game using Skillz
Win publishing deal & up to $100,000 in user acquisition funds!
Mobile games with competitive asynchronous online gameplay and published on Skillz platform can participate.
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Awarded for best Real-time competitive multiplayer mobile game using Skillz
Win publishing deal & up to $100,000 in user acquisition funds!
Mobile games with competitive real-time 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 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 the best non-commercial game of the Season
Non-commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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Awarded to the game with best visual effects.
Free copy of JangaFX Personal/Indie licenses to Top 3 teams!
All games on any digital platform can participate!
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Awarded for Best Multiplayer Game of the Season!
50,000€ Anybrain platform credits for winner and 5,000€ credits for each runner-up!
Multiplayer games on PC, Console, and Mobile platforms can participate.
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Awarded for the best mobile game of the Season
$10,000 for grand prize winner and $2,500 for each of the four runner-ups!
All games on Mobile platforms 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
Machinations will reward two Best Prototypes of the Season with Machinations Power Plan!
Yamaha will reward five games with Best Music! Winner gets ZG01 PACK (Game Streaming Audio Mixer plus Gaming Headset), 2nd place ZG01 Game Streaming Audio Mixer, and 3rd - 5th places AG01 Live Streaming Microphone
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 34,000 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.
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
$10,000 for category winner and $2,500 for each of four runner-ups!
Visit Skillz
Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!
Visit Skillz
Trophies, GDWC Swag, and Digital Certificates
1-year Surfshark VPN raffled to 9 devs for replying to the Developer Survey during game submission!
Visit Surfshark
Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!
Visit Skillz
Cash prize of $2,500, One-year subscription to Sequence Pro valued at $15,000, and Rare gold Skyweaver cards.
Visit Sequence
5,000 USD off ToxMod voice chat moderation platform!
Visit Modulate
Top 3 Games with Best Visual Effects Win Free JangaFX Personal/Indie licenses!
Visit JangaFX
Winner: ZG01 PACK (Game Streaming Audio Mixer plus Gaming Headset)
2nd place: ZG01 Game Streaming Audio Mixer
3rd - 5th place: AG01 Live Streaming Microphone
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.
