2025 Summer Season is Open for Submissions!
Join the over 51,000 game developers already competing!
For all games using procedural generation & a bonus prize for best use of Houdini
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For games being playtested whilst in development or early access/beta
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For all games using Discord Embedded App SDK
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For all mobile games - Over $150,000 worth of prizes for Top 3 Games from Mixpanel
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For all commercial games by smaller teams
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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 student game projects
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Submissions open
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
07:00:00 EET / UTC+2
Submissions close
Saturday, May 31, 2025
23:59:59 EEST / UTC+3
13 days left
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10% Discount to Go Testify Playtesting
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Check out all Winners & Finalists
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 51,000 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
13
Years of GDWC
1,000,000+
USD worth of prizes and giveaways through GDWC history
51,000+
Developers have participated in GDWC
15,000+
Registered teams
