2024 Winter Season is open submissions!
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2024 winter Season Categories

Best Indie Game

For all commercial games by smaller teams

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Best Web3 Game Award

For all games using Web3 technologies

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Proceduralism Award

For all games using procedural generation & a bonus prize for best use of Houdini

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Best Studio Game

For all commercial games by larger teams

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Best Hobby Game

For all non-commercial games and hobby projects

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Best Mobile Game

For all mobile games

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Best Student Game

For all student game projects

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GDWC 2024 Winter Season Schedule

Submissions open
Monday, August 12, 2024
10:00:00 EET / UTC+2

Submissions close
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
23:59:59 EEST / UTC+3

79 days left

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2024 Summer Season Awards Stream

Watch on the GDWC Youtube Channel
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Past Winners

2023 Winter Season

Best Visual Effects Award Winner

See all 2023 winter Winners

2023 Summer Season

Action Award Winner

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2022 Season

Student Game Award Winner

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About GDWC

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 44,000 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

12

Years of GDWC

1,000,000+

USD worth of prizes and giveaways through GDWC history

44,000+

Developers have participated in GDWC

13,000+

Registered teams

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