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!
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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€.
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
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.
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
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.
Trip to Finland & visits to Finnish Game Studios for one Team Representative
Perpetual license for Houdini Core, a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games.
Prize Pool of 10,000€ worth of Gcore Cloud service credits to top 3 Teams.
Total Cash prize pool of 8000€ to top VR & AR Games. Winner of Immersal AR Prize gets 5000€
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.
Cash prize pool of $8500 split between top 3 Teams.
Ludeo partnership deal discussions to Top 30 teams.
