Game Development World Championship 2023 Winter Season

Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2023 by AUSTIN HARRIS, Global Sales

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, totaling over $660,000 in value. Prizes are spread across 12 award categories and range from swag & software licenses to cash prizes, publishing deals, and marketing and user acquisition funding.

As the mobile game category sponsor, Skillz is expanding the competition to include three separate categories, offering multiple publishing deal prizes with User Acquisition funding up to $100,000. Likewise, VRKiwi is bringing a publishing deal with up to $100,000 marketing funding offer to VR game developers.

Game Development World Championship (GDWC) 2023 Winter Season open for submissions

“We're extremely happy to bring these awesome opportunities to our participants and developer community. Working with Skillz and VRKiwi and all our other great partners has allowed us to push the bar forward with GDWC once again," said Olli Mantyla, GDWC Director.

GDWC is free to participate and open to everyone from hobbyist & student developers to professional studios from all over the world. Games on all digital platforms - PC, Consoles, Mobile, VR & AR, Web & Browsers, are accepted. Developers can participate with a game they are currently working on, or with a game they have released, as long as it was released after August 1st 2022.

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

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