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As the days grow shorter, fireplaces crackle, and winter chill fills the air, the Leadwerks community is heating things up with the return of our annual Winter Games Tournament! It’s your chance to unleash your creativity, bring your wildest ideas to life, and take part in the fun with your fellow developers.

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🏆 The Challenge
Create a simple, playable game using Leadwerks within the tournament timeframe. When you're done, upload your masterpiece on our website before the deadline hits!

🛠️ How to Play

  • Build your simple playable game with Leadwerks.
  • Submit it before January 19, 2026 (GMT).
  • Make sure your mailing address is up-to-date in your user profile to claim your prize!

🎁 Prizes for Everyone!

Rather than a competition; this tournament is a co-opetition; a collaborative challenge where everyone wins! Every participant gets a prize. (See details below.)

🎉 Tier 1 Prize: The Leadwerks Sticker Pack 

All new participants (up to 100) will receive this awesome swag in the mail!  

  • A sleek round Leadwerks gear icon with a blue border, approximately 2.75 inches in diameter.
  • A gear icon sticker about 2 inches in diameter with a vibrant purple border.
  • A rectangular decal featuring the Leadwerks logo on a stunning dark background.

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🔥 Special Rewards for Returning Champions

Have you participated in our previous tournaments? If yes, you’re in for a treat! Up to 20 returning champions will receive a special prize package, including:

  • The Tier 1 Leadwerks sticker pack (x3 stickers).
  • A luxury high-capacity Leadwerks USB drive with leather siding and a magnetic closing box, perfect for backups or transporting files between machines...with style!
  • One mystery bonus item(!)

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🚀 Ready to Join the Fun?

  • Don’t miss out! Submit your game before the January 19, 2026 deadline! Remember, to claim your prize, update your mailing address in your user profile.
  • If you don't have Leadwerks yet, now's a great time to grab it with a discount during the Steam WInter Sale.❄️

Let’s make this winter unforgettable with creativity, collaboration, and a whole lot of fun. We can’t wait to see what you build!

The tournament starts Saturday. Good luck, and happy developing!

 

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Josh

Josh 17,246

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11 minutes ago, yurembo said:

@Josh, what is the game theme?

There is no required theme for this event. Many people make Christmas or Winter-themed games. Snowmen, present hunts, Christmas trees, that kind of thing. But it's not required.

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yurembo

yurembo 43

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@Josh

I watched your recorded video Winter Games Tournament on YouTube.

Modern Apple's OSes don't use OpenGL, they uses Metal API - proprietary video API. Apple said: OpenGL is deprecated. If I remember correctly, Apple stopped use OpenGL at 2019 in MacOS Catalina.

yurembo

yurembo 43

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I think now Leadwerks 5 has a lot of functionality. And users like me need more study materials and samples. I guess the samples should be small: an one game feature - one sample. This is easy to study.

Josh

Josh 17,246

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7 minutes ago, yurembo said:

Modern Apple's OSes don't use OpenGL, they uses Metal API - proprietary video API. Apple said: OpenGL is deprecated. If I remember correctly, Apple stopped use OpenGL at 2019 in MacOS Catalina.

That is true, it has been "deprecated" for years...yet it still works.

trashcanuseful

trashcanuseful 18

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An amazing intangible idea embodied in a tangible marketing charity campaign for the work of mastering the value of programming and modeling embodied in the value of man as a creator. [Яндекс Translator is used]

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yurembo

yurembo 43

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I need one day more...

I mixed up the days...
Everything is going according to plan.
I have to make it.

mdgunn

mdgunn 267

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I was re-checking the dates and the image says January 19 but the text says before January 19th. 

but does the text mean...

  • Submit it before [END OF] January 19, 2026 (GMT).
    OR
  • Submit it before  [START OF] January 19, 2026 (GMT).

To my mind it never makes much sense to advertise a date which you then have to remember is the date at which it is TOO late to do a thing.  And yes...my fault for having to divert some time near the end. So grasping at straws yes.

Getting close but hoping I can submit something more complete given an extra 24 available hours till end of 19th.

So are submissions by end of Jan 19th acceptable @Josh?

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Josh

Josh 17,246

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Sunday night at 11:59 PM is the cutoff date.

However, games that are uploaded can always be updated if you select File Actions > Upload New Version.

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mdgunn

mdgunn 267

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7 hours ago, Josh said:

Sunday night at 11:59 PM is the cutoff date.

However, games that are uploaded can always be updated if you select File Actions > Upload New Version.

Ah poop.  OK. I'll upload some sort of early version later and update it after end of compo. 

@Josh I'm a returning competition participant.  Address checked and is correct.

I've done about 5 in the past for xmas or halloween. Most not visible here now

I did this one (probably not the best one......ran out of time.....again).

 

This was another
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yurembo

yurembo 43

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@Josh, midnight in what time zone do you mean? 

I'm fixing two last bugs... 

oh, you know: there are too many other bugs, but these two are most terrible

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