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Global Games Industry Awards for all developers
2025 Summer Season Winners!
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2025 Summer Season Awards Stream
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2025 summer Season Categories
Most Promising Game
For games being playtested whilst in development or early access/beta
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Best Mobile Game
For all mobile games - Over $150,000 worth of prizes for Top 3 Games from Mixpanel
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Best Discord Game Award
For all games using Discord Embedded App SDK
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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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GDWC 2025 Summer Season Schedule
Submissions open
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
07:00:00 EET / UTC+2
Submissions close
Saturday, May 31, 2025
23:59:59 EEST / UTC+3
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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 52,000 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
13
Years of GDWC
1,000,000+
USD worth of prizes and giveaways through GDWC history
52,000+
Developers have participated in GDWC
16,000+
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