World's largest game development competition! Free & open to hobbyists, students, professionals, and everyone interested in game development. Submit your game, get noticed, and win!

Join the over 25,000 game developers already competing!

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Open for all

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!

Free to join

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.

Fame & prizes

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.

Time: April 22nd 2023
Location: Tallinn ESTONIA
Join us for an exciting event as we wrap up the Game Development World Championship 2022 with the highly anticipated GDWC 2022 Awards Show!

Whether you're joining us in person at Tallinn, Estonia or tuning in online, we invite you to join us in celebrating the amazing developers and their games that participated in GDWC 2022.

About

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.

Awards

GDWC is split into multiple Awards and all submitted games are automatically up for consideration in each of them. GDWC will match and Nominate games to compete for Awards based on their criteria.

Awards may change from Season to Season and new ones may be added at any time. Submit your game as early as possible for the best chance at being Nominated.

Current Season is GDWC 2023 Summer Season which will close for submissions on 31st of May 2023 30th of June 2023 midnight Finnish time. Submission period extended! Winners will be announced in early August 2023.

GDWC 2023 Summer Season Timeline

Indie Award

Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by smaller development teams

Commercial games on any platform can participate.

Winner selected by GDWC Jury.

Winner gets a Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative

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Studio Award

Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by larger development teams

Commercial games on any platform can participate.

Winner selected by GDWC Jury.

Winner gets a Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative

Learn more

Hobby Award

Awarded for the best non-commercial game of the Season

Non-commercial games on any platform can participate.

Winner selected by GDWC Jury.

Winner gets a Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative

Learn more

Mobile Award

Awarded for the best mobile game of the Season

All games on Mobile platforms can participate.

Winner selected by GDWC Jury.

Winner gets a Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative

Learn more

Made-with-Houdini Award

Awarded for the best use of Houdini and best use of Procedural Generation in games

Games utilizing Houdini or Procedural Generation in any way in their production can participate.

Winner selected by Jury of Houdini representatives.

Winners get Houdini Core licenses.

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Gcore Cloud Award

Awarded for the best use of Cloud Services in game operation or mechanics

Games using Cloud Services can participate.

Winner selected by Jury of Gcore representatives.

Top 3 teams get Gcore Cloud Service credits, total prize pool 10,000€.

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Best Web3 Game

Awarded to the best use of web3 technologies to create a fun, compelling, and creative game.

Games using Web 3.0 technologies can participate.

Winner selected by Jury of Sequence representatives.

Cash Prize of $2,500, One year subscription to Sequence Pro, valued at $15,000, and rare Gold Call To Action cards for Skyweaver

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VR & AR Award

Awarded for best VR and AR games

Any games either made for Virtual Reality platforms, or having Augmented Reality mechanics may participate.

Total Prize pool of 8000€ with a Main prize of 5000€ for games implementing Immersal AR SDK.

Learn more

Action Award

Awarded for the action games with the best wow moments.

Games having best wow moments can participate.

Winner selected by Jury of Ludeo representatives.

The top three games will receive a share of the $8,500 cash prize pool.

Top 30 games qualify to discuss Ludeo partnership deals, worth over $20,000

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GDWC Prize Pool

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.

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GDWC Prizes

Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative

Prizes
4
Gross value
$20000
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Houdini Core License

Perpetual license for Houdini Core, a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games.

Prizes
10
Gross value
$20000
gcore

Gcore Prizes

Prize Pool of 10,000€ worth of Gcore Cloud service credits to top 3 Teams.

Prizes
3
Gross value
€10000
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Immersal Cash Prizes

Total Cash prize pool of 8000€ to top VR & AR Games. Winner of Immersal AR Prize gets 5000€

Prizes
4
Gross value
€8000
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Sequence Web 3.0 Prizes

Total Prize value of $17,500 with $2,500 Cash Prize, one year subscription to Sequence Pro, and some rare Gold Call To Action cards for Skyweaver.

Prizes
1
Gross value
$17500
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Ludeo Cash Prizes

Cash prize pool of $8500 split between top 3 Teams.

Prizes
3
Gross value
$8500
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Ludeo Partnerships

Ludeo partnership deal discussions to Top 30 teams.

Prizes
30
Gross value
$20000

Diamond Partners

Gold Partners

Silver Partners

Media Partners

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