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.
“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,” says Olli Mäntylä, GDWC Director.
GDWC is free to participate and open to everyone from hobbyists & 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.
Games can be submitted to the competition on the GDWC website.
