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An Interactive Showcase For Indie Games

GDC Play features innovative projects from emerging and independent developers. Play the games and meet the people who created them in this interactive showcase on the GDC Expo!

GDC Play Features

Best in Play

A selection of games from GDC Play will be designated "Best in Play" during the week of GDC.

Winners will receive special "Best in Play" designations and free passes to the next GDC event.

GDC Pitch

A selection GDC Play exhibitors will be picked to pitch their games to an opinionated panel of investors and publishers in front of a live audience.

The pitch is followed by questions, advice, and feedback before the judges declare the day's "Best Pitch" and winners are awarded free passes to the next GDC event.

2023 Best in Play Winners

Turtles

Twisted BrainZ

Hamster on Rails

DX Gameworks

Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship

Zing Games Inc.

 

Speed Crew

Wild Fields

Nullspace

Kaigan Games Entertainment (MDEC Malaysia)

Shave&Stuff

HyperVR Games

The Wandering Village

Stray Fawn Studio

Evil Wizard

Rubber Duck Games

GDC Pitch 2023: Day 1 Finalist

Winner!

Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship

Zing Games Inc.

Ultimate Godspeed

Ninoko

BlackThorne Keep Chronicles

Limiar Studios

Tower of Samsara: Hidden Treasures

Ilex Games

Munch

Mac n Cheese Games

GDC Pitch 2023: Day 2 Finalist

Mark of the Deep

Mad Mimic

Winner!

Sky of Tides

Lofty Sky Entertainment

Aloft

Astrolabe Interactive Inc.

Unsung Empires: The Cholas

Ayelet Labs LLC

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