Winter Season Participation
GDWC 2023 Winter Season is closed for submissions and was again record-breaking season. This was our second half-year long season in GDWC history and we had over 1900 submissions beating previous season's, 2023 Summer, 1800+ submissions.

Judging in process
Judging is currently in process and due to this the submissions and game updates have been frozen. They will open up again soon once next season opens. Due to amount of game submissions we won't be able to provide direct feedback or situation updates to all participants. We will directly reach out to Finalists in early February.

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GDWC 2023 Winter Season Closing Soon!

The Winter Season will be closed to submissions on Sunday, December 31st 2023 at 23:59:59 EET / UTC+2. So there's less than two weeks left to submit your game, and now's the final chance to compete for the biggest prize pool in the GDWC history.

Here's what you could be winning:



Brasilia Game Festival, Indie Hero, and Instituto Conecta Brasil are rewarding the Winning teams in Indie, Hobby, and Studio categories with a Booth at the Brasilia Game Festival 2024 and travel & accommodation to one team member! GDWC will also be at the event and will handle trophies to the winners on the BGF main stage!

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Win Booth & Travel to Brasilia Game Festival 2024!

We're super excited to announce a partnership and new prizes with the Brasilia Game Festival 2024! Winning teams in Indie, Studio, and Hobby categories of GDWC 2023 Winter Season will get a Booth at the Brasilia Game Festival 2024 (May 10th to 12th) and paid travel & accommodation for one team member!

GDWC representatives will also be personally handing out the GDWC Trophies to the winners at the Brasilia Game Festival main stage!

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Ready for new growth and career opportunities from Games Job Fair Autumn 2023?

Join studios such as Redhill Games, Gaijin, FunPlus, GIANTS Software, and many more for 3 days of networking and fresh new fun, career-boosting activities ONLINE & ONSITE on October 25-27. The onsite part of the Hybrid Day takes place once again in Espoo, Helsinki area on October 27th.

Event Highlights

- Expert talks, panels, workshops
- Dedicated recruitment day
- Networking with games studios
- Unreal, Unity, and Art Challenges
- Creative and Animation Portfolio Reviews
- Hybrid Day 3 in Espoo + Afterparty at HypeHype HQ

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The countdown for Mobidictum Network Tallinn 2023 is in full swing. Industry professionals will come together for Mobidictum's network event on October 26 at Kultuurikatel.

Mobidictum Network Tallinn, the third networking event organized by Mobidictum this year, will take place on October 26th at Tallinn - Kultuurikatel and will host more than 100 attendees from the Mobile and PC industries.

While supported by local games industry hub GameDev Estonia, the event aims to bring together industry leaders, game studios, publishers, service providers, and developers to discuss the latest game industry developments and meet each other to grow their business networks.

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GDWC 2023 Summer Season winners were announced in an Awards Stream yesterday. Watch the stream recording here.
Find Winners for all 11 categories listed below.

Indie Award Winner

Three Minutes To Eight by Chaosmonger Studio

Studio Award Winner

Planet Cube: Edge by Sunna Entertainment

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Game Development World Championship opens 2023 Winter Season with $660,000 Prize Pool

The Game Development World Championship (GDWC) has opened the 2023 Winter Season for submissions. Games can be submitted until the end of the year. Winners will be announced in February 2024.

Winter Season breaks records with the biggest prize pool in GDWC history, totalling over $660,000 in value. Prizes are spread across 12 award categories and range from swag & software licences to cash prizes, publishing deals and marketing & User Acquisition funding.

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GDWC will celebrate the GDWC 2023 Summer Season Winners this week with an Awards Stream. The show will start on Thursday, September 21st at 18:00 EEST / UTC+3.

Stream can be watched on the GDWC Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@thegdwc

The Summer Season had over 1800 games submitted in just 3.5 months, breaking all previous participation records. From this pool of awesome games, jury picked 58 Finalists & Nominees for 11 categories. See all Finalists here https://thegdwc.com/#finalists

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The leading games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to Finland again in 2023!

Over 1,500 games industry professionals will gather in Helsinki on September 12-13 to network, discover, pitch and learn from 200 of the world's top experts.

Mobile, PC and console, blockchain, VR/AR and more will be covered, across unmissable conference tracks. Our speakers and panellists will share their expert insight into design and development, monetisation and growth, AI, blockchain and loads more.

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You may have seen from our social media posts, but we're excited to share that we've partnered with an industry-leading VPN service, Surfshark. If you're thinking, "How can I benefit from Surfshark VPN?" then keep reading!

What is Surfshark?
Surfshark is an industry-leading VPN service that encrypts your internet activity, safeguards your data and privacy online, and blocks ads and malware that get in your way.

Whether traveling, working, or enjoying a game at home — a VPN will shield you from malicious actors online, and it will also allow you to avoid price discrimination and save a dollar or two while shopping for new games!

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Houdini - Model, Animate, Render and More...

Houdini is built from the ground up to be a procedural system that empowers artists to work freely, create multiple iterations and rapidly share workflows with colleagues.



Houdini Core delivers a powerful and accessible 3D animation experience to CG artists creating feature films, commercials or video games. With its procedural node-based workflow, Houdini Core is ideal for modelers, lighters, character riggers and animators to use on its own or as a layout and lighting tool for visual effects created in Houdini FX.

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Sequence is the all-in-one smart wallet and developer platform that makes building web3 games easy.

Sequence believes that games are going to be one of the single biggest entry points to web3 and is excited to partner with game builders of all sizes to make that happen.

With a user-friendly smart wallet, Unity, Unreal Engine, and mobile SDKs, token and NFT APIs, an Indexer, a Relayer for gasless transactions, Onramps, a Node Gateway, a Marketplace Protocol, and more, Sequence gives builders the tools they need to deliver seamless web3 experiences to their players.

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Gcore is the foundation for your global infrastructure, applications and business

Gcore is one of the international leaders in public, hybrid and private cloud computing, content delivery, hosting, and security solutions, with a global infrastructure offering first-class edge and cloud-based services.

Their infrastructure spans six continents and consists of 150+ points of presence around the world in reliable Tier IV and Tier III datacentres, with total capacity exceeding 110 Tbps and speeds of 3-5 milliseconds in several regions with an average response time worldwide of 20-30 milliseconds.

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Action Award is waiting for you! - $20,000+ in prizes!

If you've submitted any kind Action game to this GDWC season, don't miss out on the Action Award category and the great prizes offered by the award sponsor Ludeo!

Best three Action games take home cash from the $8,500 cash prize pool and best 30 open doors for deals with development & marketing grants for a total pool $20,000+!

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Win Big with Immersal SDK! - 7,000€ cash prize pool!

If you've worked with or tinkered with AR Development or AR features for your game, now's a great chance to cash in on the Immersal AR Award!

Participation is simple:
- Implement Immersal's AR SDK into your game or project as you see best. All kinds of creative approaches are welcome!
- Submit your game or project into current GDWC Season
- During submission select the checkbox for using Immersal SDK
- Act Fast - Submissions close at the end of June!

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We're excited to announce that JangaFX is now a proud sponsor of this year's Game Development World Championship. JangaFX are the creators of EmberGen, a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool that easily allows artists to create fire, smoke, explosions, magic, and more.

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The Game Development World Championship 2022 Winners were announced in the GDWC 2022 Awards Show in Tallinn, Estonia, last Saturday, April 22nd. The event was organized with the help of GameDev Estonia. If you missed the show, you can watch the live stream recording on our YouTube channel here.


Studio Category Winner:
Shatterline by Frag Lab

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We're taking the GDWC 2022 Awards Show to Estonia, with the help and support of our friends from Gamedev Estonia. You can get tickets for the Awards Show & Party here.

To honor our hosting country and celebrate the great local game development scene, we've decided to add one more last-minute Award category to the Game Development World Championship 2022: Best Estonian Game!

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We have the Finalists in all categories for GDWC 2022! Winners will be revealed in an Awards Show in Tallinn, Estonia, on April 22nd! If you want to join the event, check out details and grab your tickets here!

You can also watch the reveal home on the GDWC Youtube Channel. Remember to subscribe to not miss it!

Studio Category Finalists in the GDWC 2022
Danghost by Umeshu Lovers
Hamster Playground by WeDigGames
Peglin by Red Nexus Games
Shatterline by Frag Lab
Space Tail: Every Journey Leads Home by Longterm Games

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GDWC 2022 Fan Choice voting is now open! Cast your vote and help us crown the fan favorite games of 2022!
Five of our main categories: Indie, Studio, Hobby, Mobile, and Game Jam, have a the title of Fan Choice Winner and awesome prizes available! Check out the Nominees below and vote your favorite here!

INDIE CATEGORY FAN CHOICE NOMINEES
COGNAC | Photorealistic Metaverse by COGNAC TEAM
BACKPACK HERO by Jaspel
A World of Little Legends by Artimus
Berserk Boy by Berserkboy Games
Bob: A thousand lives by Putnai Csaba
Game Of Seven by Game Of Seven
Card Survival: Tropical Island by Winterspring Games
One Last Breath by Moonatic Studios
Lifespace Traveler by Dino Trnka
Soulstone Survivors by Game Smithing

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GDWC 2022 has closed submissions and Nominees have been passed onto judges for evaluation. See list of Nominees below!

Finalists will be contacted directly in early April and winners will be announced in the GDWC 2022 Awards Show in Tallinn, Estonia on April 22nd. Want to join us? Get your tickets here while they last!

The show will also be streamed live to the GDWC Youtube channel here!

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A World of Little Legends by Artimus has won the monthly games ranking for March. Congrats!

A World of Little Legends sends you back to the 90s, but with open-world crafting and catboy vikings. The game combines all the best elements of classic Zelda games, Minecraft and Stardew Valley to create it's own flavour of adventure and exploration. Check it out yourself, the game is currently in early access on Steam, or pick up the demo for free.

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Bob: A Thousand Lives by a trio from Hungary has won the monthly games ranking for January. Congrats to the winning team!

Bob: A Thousand Lives is a dark themed action platformer where you play as the titular Bob. Throughout your adventure, Bob must overcome his biggest challenge, overcoming his past. Do no wait for help or guidance here, you are completely alone.


NERF Superblast by Nitro Games
Mobile multiplayer action shooter

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Bob: A Thousand Lives by a trio from Hungary has won the monthly games ranking for January. Congrats to the winning team!

In Bob: A thousand lives the classic HARD and PRECISE TASKS platformer characteristics come to life, where our age's 'I'll do it for you' principles don't apply. Out now on itch.io and Microsoft Store


Avani by DigiPen Bilbao - Kyuut Kats
Isometric action-adventure game.

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We're excited to announce Sequence as a new supporter of GDWC 2022! If you've been thinking about taking your current or future project into the web3 realm, check how Sequence can help you.



Sequence is the all-in-one developer platform and smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy. With a seamless smart wallet, Token and NFT APIs, Indexer, Relayer for gasless transactions, Onramps, Node Gateway, SDKs for mobile, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Marketplaces and more, Sequence gives you the tools to deliver a seamless web3 experience to your users. Plus Sequence is entirely modular, so you can use whichever components you specifically need for your game.

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We're super happy to welcome Gcore on board as one of the supporters of GDWC 2022!

Gcore is one of the international leaders in cloud computing, content delivery, hosting, and security solutions. They manage a global infrastructure with first-class edge and cloud-based services spanning six continents with 150+ points of presence around the world. With one of the best network performances in Europe, North America, Asia or Latin America, Gcore provides speeds of 3-5 milliseconds in several regions.

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The Defense of Trewel Towers by a student development team Trewel Towers from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has won the monthly games ranking for December. Congrats to the winning team!

The Defense of Trewel Towers, or Trewel Towers, is a VR tower defense game. It contains a story mode as well as a 1-4 player endless mode. Still in development with student team.

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We're drawing four sets of Valco ANC Headphones between all teams that fill out the technical survey.

First two headphone winners have been drawn and they are Murdock, the developer behind game Everyone Moves With You, and XAEONGAMES, the developer of The Nightmare Catcher. Congrats to the winners!

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IndieLand is back this year with a hybrid streaming & live event! The event is once again hosted by Jirard Khalil, also known as the Youtuber The Completionist, and will celebrate indie games while fundraising to support dementia research.

IndieLand will feature an army of great indie games, many of which once again come from the ranks of GDWC participants. We're super excited for this chance to again collaborate with IndieLand and to help bring more awesome games to the limelight and to support the fight against dementia!

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November's top 10 games have been ranked, with the crown going to Aces in the Dust! Congrats to the winners! Check out all top 10 games below.


Aces in the Dust by DUV Studios
Take command of a team of three elite Airmen! Each of them pilots a warplane equipped with the most powerful experimental weapons to date. Shoot down enemies using machine guns, missiles, energy cannons and… a laser beam!

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