2023 winter Awards
Watch the GDWC 2023 Winter Season Awards Stream recording below:
1st Place
Deadlink
Gruby Entertainment
3rd Place
The Machines Arena
Directive Games
1st Place
Half Sword
Half Sword
2nd Place
Swappy World
Awakening Games srls
Watch the GDWC 2023 Winter Season Awards Stream recording below:
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 $200,000 in marketing & UA funding! Check out the categories below!
Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by smaller development teams
Win Booth & Travel to Brasília Game Festival 2024!
Commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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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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Awarded for the best non-commercial game of the Season
Win Booth & Travel to Brasília Game Festival 2024!
Non-commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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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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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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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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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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Category cancelled.
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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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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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Awarded for the best commercial game of the Season made by larger development teams
Win Booth & Travel to Brasília Game Festival 2024!
Commercial games on any platform can participate.
Trophy & GDWC Swag!
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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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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.
Valco will reward the game with most Immersive Audio with two pairs of Valco ANC Headphones!
Playsense will reward the game with a best trailer of the Season with $5,000 credits to their services
Machinations will reward two Best Prototypes of the Season with Machinations Power Plan!
Yamaha will reward five games with Best Music! Winner gets ZG01 PACK (Game Streaming Audio Mixer plus Gaming Headset), 2nd place ZG01 Game Streaming Audio Mixer, and 3rd - 5th places AG01 Live Streaming Microphone
GDWC will honor the Best Action Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate
GDWC will honor the Best Adventure Game of the Season with an Official Digital Certificate
Publishing Deal & up to 100 000 € Marketing budget
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Showcase your game at BRASÍLIA GAME FESTIVAL 2024!
Winning team gets a booth at the Brasília Game Festival 2024 (May 10th to 12th) and travel & accommodations paid for one team member. GDWC will hand out the Trophy to the Winner in the main stage at BGF.
License for Houdini Core, a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games.
Visit Houdini
1-year Surfshark VPN raffled to 9 devs for replying to the Developer Survey during game submission!
Visit Surfshark
$10,000 for category winner and $2,500 for each of four runner-ups!
Visit Skillz
Top 3 Games with Best Visual Effects Win Free JangaFX Personal/Indie licenses!
Visit JangaFX
5,000 USD off ToxMod voice chat moderation platform!
Visit Modulate
Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!
Visit Skillz
Showcase your game at BRASÍLIA GAME FESTIVAL 2024!
Winning team gets a booth at the Brasília Game Festival 2024 (May 10th to 12th) and travel & accommodations paid for one team member. GDWC will hand out the Trophy to the Winner in the main stage at BGF.
Publishing deals to top 5 games with guaranteed UA spend: $100,000 to Winner & $25,000 to each runner-up!
Visit Skillz
Winner: ZG01 PACK (Game Streaming Audio Mixer plus Gaming Headset)
2nd place: ZG01 Game Streaming Audio Mixer
3rd - 5th place: AG01 Live Streaming Microphone
Showcase your game at BRASÍLIA GAME FESTIVAL 2024!
Winning team gets a booth at the Brasília Game Festival 2024 (May 10th to 12th) and travel & accommodations paid for one team member. GDWC will hand out the Trophy to the Winner in the main stage at BGF.
Cash prize of $2,500, One-year subscription to Sequence Pro valued at $15,000, and Rare gold Skyweaver cards.
Visit Sequence
Trophies, GDWC Swag, and Digital Certificates
