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Welcome to the 2023/24 Game Making Deathmatch! 

This is utGDDC's biggest event of the year. You've got two months to put together a game that will be put in front of a panel of judges from industry and academia! Bring your A game!


The theme for this year is:

END WHERE YOU STARTED

You can interpret this however you like! Get creative with it!


Sponsors:

This year the GMD is sponsored by MSI. Thank you to MSI for giving us prizes for the winners for the competition. Prize distribution for the winners will be announced soon!


Rules:

  1. All used assets (code, art, music/media, etc.) must be your own work, OR publically available for free (don’t buy assets and don’t use anything that’s copyrighted).
  2. You may not submit a game started before December 1st, 2023, but you may use assets or code from your own previous projects.
  3. Your game must run on a modern windows or macOS version, or on a modern browser. 

Teams may consist of up to 4 people.


Judging & Criteria:

A panel of judges composed of both professional and non-professional game developers will review the submissions and decide the top three overall games, in addition to a winner for each category.

The judging categories are:

  1. Overall
  2. Gameplay Mechanics, Controls, and UI
  3. Art: Visual Design & Aesthetics
  4. Theme: Interpretation and application of the provided theme
  5. Sound & Music: Sound Design, Scoring
  6. Technical Achievement
  7. Originality & Creativity


Email: info@utgddc.com if you have any questions, or ask the execs on the discord server


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