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2023 Summer Season Winners

Gcore Cloud Award Winner

Indie Award Winner

Action Award Winner

Studio Award Winner

Immersal SDK Award Winner

Made-with-Houdini Award Winner

Procedural Award Winner

Best Web3 Game Winner

Mobile Award Winner

AR & VR Award Winner

Hobby Award Winner

Awards Categories

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!

GDWC 2023 Winter Season Timeline

Submissions open
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
13:00:00 EEST / UTC+3

Submissions close
Sunday, December 31, 2023
23:59:59 EET / UTC+2

92 days left

Best Visual Effects

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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Mobile Award

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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Studio Award

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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Best Web3 Game

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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Best Multiplayer Game

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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Hobby Award

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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Best VR Game

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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Procedural Award

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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Made-with-Houdini Award

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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Indie Award

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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Skillz Classic Award

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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Skillz Real-time Award

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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Accolades

Best Community Design by Modulate

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.

Immersive Audio

Valco will reward the game with most Immersive Audio with two pairs of Valco ANC Headphones!

Best Trailer

Playsense will reward the game with a best trailer of the Season with $5,000 credits to their services

Best Action Game

GDWC will honor the Best Action Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate

Best Adventure Game

GDWC will honor the Best Adventure Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate

Join the over 32,000 game developers already competing!

GDWC Prize Pool
value over $660,000

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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Houdini Core License

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

Visit Houdini
Prizes
10
Gross value
$20000
raffle

Surfshark Raffle Prizes

1-year Surfshark VPN raffled to 9 devs for replying to the Developer Survey during game submission!

Visit Surfshark
Prizes
0
Gross value
€0
multiplayer

Anybrain Prizes

Credits to Anybrain Platform!

Visit Anybrain
Prizes
5
Gross value
€70000
mobile

Skillz Prizes for Mobile

$10,000 for category winner and $2,500 for each of four runner-ups!

Visit Skillz
Prizes
5
Gross value
$20000
web3

Sequence Web 3.0 Prizes

Cash prize of $2,500, One-year subscription to Sequence Pro valued at $15,000, and Rare gold Skyweaver cards.

Visit Sequence
Prizes
1
Gross value
$17500
accolades

Modulate Prizes

5,000 USD off ToxMod voice chat moderation platform!

Visit Modulate
Prizes
5
Gross value
$25000

Valco Prizes

Two pairs of Valco ANC Headphones!

Visit Valco
Prizes
0
Gross value
$0
vr

Varjo Prizes

Varjo Aero VR Headset!

Visit Varjo
Prizes
1
Gross value
€2000
mobile

Prizes for Skillz Classic Award

Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!

Visit Skillz
Prizes
5
Gross value
$200000
vr

VRKiwi Prizes

Publishing Deal & up to 100 000 € Marketing budget

Visit VRKiwi
Prizes
1
Gross value
€100000
mobile

Prizes for Skillz Real-Time Award

Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!

Visit Skillz
Prizes
5
Gross value
$200000
bestvfx

JangaFX Prizes

Top 3 Games with Best Visual Effects Win Free JangaFX Personal/Indie licenses!

Visit JangaFX
Prizes
0
Gross value
$0
indiestudiohobby

GDWC Prizes

Trophies, GDWC Swag, and Digital Certificates

Prizes
0
Gross value
€2000
vr

Playsense Prizes

Credits to Playsense services!

Visit Playsense
Prizes
1
Gross value
$5000

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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.

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