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2024 Winter Season Winners! /Watch Awards Show!
2025 Summer Season is Open for Submissions!
Join the over49,000 game developers already competing!

2024 Winter Season Awards Stream

Watch on theGDWC Youtube Channel
Check out all Winners & Finalists

2025 summer Season Categories

Best Discord Game Award

For all games using Discord Embedded App SDK

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Best Mobile Game

For all mobile games - $25,000 worth of prizes from Mixpanel

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Most Promising Game

For games being playtested whilst in development or early access/beta

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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 Indie Game

For all commercial games by smaller teams

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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 Student Game

For all student game projects

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Past Winners

About GDWC

The Game Development World Championship, orGDWC 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 over49,000 developers participate from over150 different countries and we've given out over $1,000,000 worth of prizes and giveaways.

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