What is Game-Making Deathmatch (GMD)?
GMD is our annual videogame-making competition where participants work in partners or by themselves to create their own videogames based on a given theme. Participants of GMD will then have x months to finish their videogame creations, and once this time limit is up, the submitted entries will be evaluated by a special panel of judges in a variety of categories. The top games of their categories will win amazing prizes, but if there are an abundance of prizes, which there usually are, then all participants will win something!
The Theme for GMD
For each and every GMD, a unique theme is announced once the competition begins. Participants of GMD are encouraged to build their games based on this theme, but they can also choose to completely ignore the theme if they wish. The theme for this year’s GMD 2012 is…
The Games Are posted
How to Participate in GMD 2012
Read and fill out the GMD 2012 sign-up form. Then hand in this form along with your team’s entrance fee ($10 per team) during our utGDDC meeting on Thursday, December 1 at 5:10pm by email to gmd@utgddc.com, or to any utGDDC executive member, any time from now until the start of January.
OK, I’ve signed up and I’m ready for GMD 2012. What Now?
- Grab some information on game development tools and tutorials from our Game Development Tools section.
- Check out the GMD competitions from previous years below.
Here are the websites of the competition from previous years, which you can download the submissions from:
And here are some highlights of the games that have been made in past competitions:
