24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards Finalist Portal

You'll have an opportunity to showcase yourself or your team as a GDCA nominee through promotional videos that will be posted on the official GDC social media channels by GDC Content Marketing Manager Beth Elderkin. If you would like to be included, please record and submit a video message (no more than 1 minute) that highlights your studio/game, award category, how you feel about being nominated, and a call-to-action to come to the awards at GDC and/or to watch them online—plus any comments you would like to add to make it feel most like you. We recommend using WeTransfer (up to 2 GB free) and emailing links to Beth Elderkin and/or Sarah Zilonis via email—but if that option is not available, please feel free to share via any other share file service that works for you.

You may record the video message with any recording device you have available, even your phone. Feel free to get fun and creative with your video message—but please do not add any b-roll, text-on-screen, or music. We’ll do that for you!

Your main video must be in Horizontal format (not vertical). However, you’re welcome to film an optional second video in vertical format if you’d like to participate in additional IGF promotions on TikTok and Instagram.

Note: If nominated for more than one category at the Game Developers Choice Awards, we encourage separate videos for each category

Note: If nominated for awards at IGF Awards and GDCA, we encourage separate videos for each

Script Example: “Hi, we’re *name of studio* and we’re thrilled that our game *game title* has been nominated for *name of Game Developers Choice Award*. This project was a labor of love, and we’re so happy *detail about the game we’re really proud of* is being recognized by the game dev community. We look forward to seeing all of you in San Francisco for GDCA, or you can watch it on GDC Twitch. See you soon!”

Delivery Instructions

• Please use the following format for the file name: "GDCA2024_GameTitle_GDCA2024Nominee"
• Document with email, full name, and job title for every person in the video—please include visual descriptions (color of their shirt, glasses/no) for reference
• Horizontal format only (not vertical)
• Video specs options: 1080p in .mp4 or .MOV format
• DO NOT add music, game footage, broll, or any text-on-screen

Past Example: GDCA 2023 Social Impact Award Nominee Video

When we introduce your game as a GDCA nominee at the awards ceremony, we will depict the game title, developer, publisher and up to four names of individuals who worked on the game, per award category on screen using a video reel.

Attributions will be shown and announced as follows during your nominee reel: "Game Title, Developed by...., Published by..., Attributions" except for Best Debut nominees, who will be shown and announced as follows: "Developer, Nominated for Game Title, Attributions".

If you are nominated for multiple award categories, you can specify different sets of attributed names for each category. If you don't have 1-4 individual names you'd like to list, please leave this field blank. That said - we know a lot of developers worked really hard to make these games possible so we strongly encourage you to use this field to thank them for their work.

In addition to the written text, a voiceover will read all of this information aloud during the video. Please provide audio recordings of each of the attributed names, the game title, the developer, and the publisher even if you think those pronunciations are self-evident. You can submit this as an audio file recorded on a phone. It does not need to be high quality and can be sent over email. These pronunciation files will only be used as a reference by the voiceover artist.

Please email all audio files and written attribution information to Sarah Zilonis. We recommend using WeTransfer (up to 2 GB free) and emailing links Sarah Zilonis via email—but if that option is not available, please feel free to share via any other share file service that works for you.

Please confirm if at least one member of your team representing your game plans to attend the 2024 Game Developers Choice Awards on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco by the deadline of Wednesday, February 14. If no one from your team can attend, please fulfill the acceptance speech requirement below.

To RSPV, please just send a note to Sarah Zilonis via email.

As a Choice Awards finalist, you are eligibile for 5 seats per nomination in the VIP section of the award show, roped off and situated just in front of the stage with round tables. If you are nominated in 4 categories, that means you are eligible for 20 seats. You do not have to use every seat and I'm happy to work with you should you want to request additional seats where possible. The VIP section will have a seating chart and seats are limited, so please do not RSVP for seats you do not need so that we can fully fill this section with finalists and their teams across GDCA and IGF. Changes can be made to your seating reservations up until 9am PT the morning of the ceremony, however, we cannot guarantee your entire team will be able to sit together for any RSVPs made after Friday, March 1.

There is no official dress code for the ceremony, but nominees are encouraged to dress up for this special occasion - call it Creative Formal. We want you and your teams to dress in a way that makes you feel celebrated and confident. Be sure to get a group photo at the awards step and repeat to show off your styles!

The VIP section will be open an hour prior to the start of the ceremony and will feature a bar with light refreshments as well as live music so do please join us, network, and kick off the celebration early with us!

The Awards Ceremony will take place in the GDC Ballroom on the 1st Level in the West Hall of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on Wednesday, March 20, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. and held in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGF). The awards ceremony is available to to all GDC 2024 pass-holders and will be live-streamed on the official GDC Twitch channel.  Additionally, GDC will be implementing these health & safety measures at the conference.