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Awesome news to all student game developers! We are once again partnering with the awesome folks at Autodesk to bring back Student Game Award for GDWC 2022! The submissions are now open!

Student Game Award ’22! This year the Student Game Award is again open for student-developed projects on all digital platforms. You don’t have to specifically be studying game development, all students are welcome as long as you have a project to show us.

The projects must be non-commercial and all kinds of projects are welcome from 2D to 3D and whatever else you may come up with. Games must be developed by a team of current or recently graduated students. Due to the increased wave and interest in self-studying and online learning, this year we’re also accepting first-time game projects from self-studying developers.

REWARDS! The five best teams in Student Game Award are rewarded with fame and visibility via Exclusive Interviews in Autodesk AREA and some awesome Autodesk swag.

The Winning team will also get top-of-the-line tools in the form of Autodesk Licenses, and get some in-depth industry knowledge in the form of an executive coaching session.

How to join?! If you have a student project and are already enrolled in GDWC 2022, you need to edit your submission. Simply go to your dashboard, click “Edit” on your game, select the “Student Game Award” under Open Categories, and click Submit.

If you haven’t joined GDWC yet, but you have a student project, join now by creating an account and submitting your game. Submissions are open until the end of February 2023.

Teachers may also submit projects on behalf of their students.

Join the Student Game Award here!

Autodesk is the software company behind professional 3D animation and modeling tools like Maya and 3ds Max. We at GDWC collaborated with Autodesk in GDWC 2021 and introduced the Student Game Award for student-developed projects for the first time. The category gathered over 200 very high-quality submissions from all over the world.

Check out Autodesk here!

We are very excited to announce Xsolla as the newest sponsor of GDWC 2022! Together we are introducing a new award for this year’s championship: The Xsolla Game of the Year Award!

The award comes with cash prizes of up to $5,000! This award is open to all new and current GDWC 2022 competitors with a commercial game.

Xsolla is an international video game trading company with a robust and powerful set of tools and services designed specifically for the gaming industry. As our partners, they offer prizes for participants to find the right business partner and funding or business solutions to help their games succeed.

How can I participate in the Xsolla Game of the Year Awards?

If you have already enrolled for GDWC 2022, you will also need to update your submission to compete for the award. Simply edit your submission page and select the Xsolla Game of the Year Award as one of the categories to participate in.

If you haven’t enrolled, now is the perfect time to join the championship and compete for prizes and giveaways worth over $100,000 in total. Remember to choose the Xsolla Game of the Year Award as one of your competition categories.

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👾Top 10 Indie Games for August is OUT NOW! 👾

These Games entered the GDWC 2022 Competition & Battled it out for a Monthly Ranking! 🏆

🖥 Watch Now: https://youtu.be/_TXPyQ7PWFE

🔎 Check them out here: https://thegdwc.com/pages/results.php

Games:

1st Two Falls by Unreliable Narrators

2nd BACKPACK HERO by Jaspel

3rd COGNAC by Cognac Ultimate Devs Team

4th Sclash by Bevel bakery

5th Scarlet Hollow- Episode 3 by Black Tubby Games

6th The Occultist by Pentakill Studios

7th Redemption of the Damned by MiroWin studio

8th A World of Little Legends by Artimus

9th Hitori Kakurenbo Online by Infinite Thread Games

10th One Last Breath by Moonatic Studios

Want to learn more about what is our “Top 10 Games of the Month”? When your game is qualified for the competition, all games will automatically participate in the public ranking, and the top 10 games are announced every month. It consists of two factors: *Engagement on game pages, such as game page views, likes, and shares. *Votes on the game discovery page.

The top-ranked game each month will be guaranteed a spot on the Fans’ Choice poll and the Jury’s Choice shortlist for whatever category it participates in. And do not worry about joining the competition late, because rankings reset every month, so it’s never too late to get involved!

The Game Development World Championship (GDWC) 2022, one of the largest game development competitions in the world, will award more than $100,000 worth of prizes and giveaways this year. This is the largest prize pool in the Championship’s history.

Prizes are spread across multiple categories, and there are many giveaways available to all participants. Prizes and giveaways vary from software licenses and development tools to hardware, visibility, and paid-for games industry networking trips. New prizes are also constantly being added. Check out the prizes and giveaways here at https://thegdwc.com/enroll/#rewards

Whether you’re a professional, hobbyist, or student game developer, you’re welcome to join the competition. You just need to own a playable game that has been released or is in development this year. Participation is free and done through the GDWC website.

Join the competition and check out the prizes at https://thegdwc.com/enroll

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🎮 Top 10 Indie Games for JULY is OUT NOW! 🌟

These Games entered the GDWC 2022 Competition & Battled it out for a Monthly Ranking! 🏆

▶️ Watch Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiSvsw2PP5k

Games:

COGNAC by Cognac Ultimate Devs Team

BACKPACK HERO by Jaspel LLC

One Last Breath by Moonatic Studios

Hitori Kakurenbo Online by Infinite Thread Games

Moose Around by Vamoose

Jaws of Extinction by KYE Creations

Dash Hale by Flat Voxel

Sclash by Bevel bakery

Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die! by Valtteri Tavast

Overlapped by Screenshakes

Want to learn more about what is our “Top 10 Games of the Month”? When your game is qualified for the competition, all games will automatically participate in the public ranking, and the top 10 games are announced every month. It consists of two factors: *Engagement on game pages, such as game page views, likes, and shares. *Votes on the game discovery page.

The top-ranked game each month will be guaranteed a spot on the Fans’ Choice poll and the Jury’s Choice shortlist for whatever category it participates in. And do not worry about joining the competition late, because rankings reset every month, so it’s never too late to get involved!

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Our Student Game Award Finalist’s Game “There You Are” by Funky Dango and the Winner’s Game “Incarnation” by Idan Rooze have their OWN Article by Autodesk!

📰Read It Here: https://area.autodesk.com/inspire/articles/HtJFpSSnD

🎮Play the Game Here: https://solr.itch.io/there-you-are

📰 Read It Here: https://area.autodesk.com/inspire/articles/ItChQYFT5

🎮 Play the Game Here: https://idanro.itch.io/incarnation

Our other finalists’ games:

ASTREIA’S GIFT: https://isart-digital.itch.io/astreiasgift

LYSFANGHA: https://isart-digital.itch.io/lysfangha

POSTBIRD IN PROVENCE: https://isart-digital.itch.io/postbirdinprovence

Top 10 games June 2022

What are the Top 10 Games of the Month?
When your game is qualified for the competition, all games will automatically participate in the public ranking. It consists of two factors: engagement on game pages, such as game page views, likes and shares, and votes on the game discovery page. The top 10 games are announced every month.

The top-ranked game each month will be guaranteed a spot on the Fans' Choice poll and the Jury's Choice shortlist for whatever category it participates in. And do not worry about joining the competition late, because rankings reset every month, so it's never too late to get involved!

Cognac

In the first place is COGNAC by Aditya Gaura

svm
In the second place is Sharks vs Mermaids by Cluck Eye Tea
westwoodshadows
In the third place is Westwood Shadows by RedSoup
RocketRumble
In the fourth place is Rocket Rumble by PixelNAUTS 
burnmealive2
In the fifth place is Burn Me Alive 2 by ASD Studios
TheLoneBlade
In the sixth place is The Lone Blade by Opia Games
arum
In the seventh place is ARUM by One Sugar Please Studio
quasimorphosis exordium
In the eighth place is Quasimorphosis: Exordium by MgnmScrptmDvs
Rainbow YggdrasilIn the ninth place is Rainbow Yggdrasil by Otorakobo Inc.arabilis-super-harvest
In the tenth place is  Arabilis: Super Harvest by Tim Overvliet


Here are our "Top 10 Games of June!" and  "Top 10 Games Of May!" on Youtube, feel free to check them out!

Sorry for the late reply, I checked that it is on the public listing already.

The evaluation process usually took less than a few days, once again sorry for the inconvenience.

We have a new feature - the game list page on our website!

The game list page is an exploration page where you can easily find the types of games you like to play. Use the search bar to narrow your search, or filter by genre, platform, theme, or number of players. We have a great amount of indie games to choose from, there's sure to be something for everyone!

Check it out here: https://thegdwc.com/explore/

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Hello everyone! We have celebrated the Game Development World Championship 2021 awards on March 15 - 17th, 2022, and announced all winners at the live awards show, you can check out the finalists and winners in all our 9 categories, Pc Pro Game of the Year, Pro Console Game of the Year, Hobby Game of the Year, Mobile Game of the Year, Best VR Game, Best VR Prototype, Student Game Award, Game Jam Game of the Year and Fan Favorite.


Thank you to the developers, fans, and all attendees for participating. 2021 has been a great year for the champions and we were delighted to see a lot of great games. Thank you all and looking forward to making GDWC 2022 even better!

GDWC 2022 is open for registration, and the new season starts with 5 categories, which are 

Studio Category

Indie Category

Hobby Category

Game Jam Game of the Year Category

Mobile Game of the Year Category

There may be more categories coming out later, stay tuned with us!

More information, all previous year’s winners, and registration can be done on our website!

The submission period is from March 7th, 2022 to February 28th, 2023

See you in The GDWC 2022!

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GDWC Director Olli Mäntylä and Marketing Communications Specialist Teea Kähkönen discuss the gaming industry, various topics related to the competition, and fun stories from our contestants on the "Real Professional" podcast hosted by Jans, Ted, and Abbey from DREAD XP.

Listen here: 

Hi everyone!

We recently announced the Game Development World Championship 2020 Winners in an almost 8 hours long live streamed awards show.  You can check out the Winners in all four categories, one of which is Game Jam category, in the video below:

We had a massive amount of awesome games take part in the 2020 competition, which made the process of picking winners extremely difficult and we also wanted to find a way to show more of the great games that we saw. So we created The GDWC 2020 Official Selection which highlights 30 games from the competition that caught our and our judges' eye. You can check those out below:

The GDWC  2021 is currently open for enrollment, and the Game Jam category is part of this year's competition as well so join up if you have a game out or in development this year! The competition is completely free.

More info, all previous years' winners, and signing up can be done on our website here: https://thegdwc.com

We hope to see your games in the competition this year! :)

Hi! 

I am not sure if this is allowed here, but we are having a live stream where 3 game developers are sharing their own insights related to game development. The event is this Friday on Twitch, you can check The GDWC profile for more info.

Haha, the idea sounds awesome! Welcome aboard :-)

https://itch.io/jam/jamming-with-gdwc-round2-im-not-a-cat


We went a bit crazy with the theme this time, we love this meme so much :) Would be nice to see what kind of ideas you guys come up with.

Nice to have you back rudrac! 

We are trying to create themes that are never the same :)

https://thegdwc.com/

No worries :) I will tag you two on social media and share the video during the weekend.

So That I Can Tag You!

The game doesn't work. We have tried with 2 computers.

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Thank you Rona! That's very bad timing with power outages :/  Your Devlog was awesome.

The Jam might be over, but your game lives on. Let me know when the game is ready!

I hope you all had fun!

During this weekend we will download your games and play them. 

Stay tuned 🙂

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Yes, we will be more careful in the future in order to avoid creating any uncertainties. Thank you for letting us know about your confusion 🙂👍

There must have been a misunderstanding. You can still join and send games! There is no limit! If you're talking about the Twitter post, it was just to encourage people to join, there is no limit of 20  :) 

Awesome! Will post some on our social media today. :)

Cool, we'll check out! And thank you :)

Is it okay to share this on our social media, or do you want us to wait for the finished game?

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You can also tell us something more about the game or about your team if you're in the mood :)

How is it going, have you got any ideas? :)

Thanks for sharing!

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Oh,  too late to join :,(

There is no wrong way to interpret this :) 

We try not to give any direction (at least yet) at this stage because we are curious what kind of ideas you will come up with. 

Jamming with GDWC - Round1: Broken Steel

Jamming with GDWC is a game jam hosted by the Game Development World Championship (GDWC). We are the biggest development championship in the world, and now we are here to have fun with you jammers!

This is a standalone game jam that is separate from our main competition, but you can join our competition's category of "Best  Game Jam Game" @ https://thegdwc.com/ with the game(s) you have created in our jams! 

https://itch.io/jam/jamming-with-gdwc

We don't have a public Discord, but all of our 2021 competitors will get access to our public Discord.

Antti/GDWC

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Hi rudrac!  Nice to see you here :)

Yes, this is our first jam at itch.io and we are going to have more jams here in the future as well. 

Antti/GDWC

Really beautiful game! I really liked the concept of the game and even though I didn't get all of the cats I enjoyed playing. The game could maybe have a little more explaining on how you're supposed to play it as I had no idea how to plant the seeds from the ragdoll cat. Other than that this was very fun and wonderful, keep up the good work :D

I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)

Such a fun game! I really liked the music and art style. The game itself was quite difficult if you wanted to collect all stars but it was a lot of fun. A checkpoint or something would be quite nice in the levels but other than that I had a lot of fun playing this game :D

I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)

Really great game, can't wait for more! This was so much fun and the story felt very detailed. The concept as well is very interesting and I just want to continue playing. The art style and music in the game created a great atmosphere and I really liked the characters. Overall a very fun and interesting game :D

I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)

Wow this was great! I reaally loved the art style in the game and the story really pulled me in. The eerie whispers and music created such a great atmosphere and I can't wait for the whole game. I did have some trouble figuring a few things out but after clicking around for a while I did find everything and then got left feeling so curious as to what will happen next! Overall a very fun and interesting game, keep up the good work :D

I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)

Really great game and a nice story! I really liked that there were different options based on what you chose earlier in the game. The art style was very nice and I really enjoyed the music. Overall a very fun game :D

I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)