Ubisoft Shanghai x EiM: 2025 Worldwise Game Jam Winners Announced!
In February 2025, over 200 students from Dulwich College International schools came together online to take part in the Worldwise Game Jam – an international 48-hour video game design challenge co-hosted by Ubisoft Shanghai and EiM in partnership with University of Utah Asia Campus. This year's secret theme was Health, and students were tasked with planning, designing and building a playable game in teams of up to 8 people – all within just two days. After the marathon game jam weekend, over 40 games were submitted for judging.
In the weeks following, each game was meticulously tested by our professional judging panel – made up of experts from Ubisoft Shanghai and University of Utah's Asia Campus. There were lots of amazing games submitted, with required multiple rounds of discussion and deliberations to rank. After this in-depth review, we're happy to finally announce the winners in each age range.
Winners Junior School
Pillz
Dulwich College Seoul
Team members: Samy, Doyoon, Max
Pillz is a score attack style arcade shooter where players control a pill that battles rapidly multiplying viruses. The judges highlighted the games high level of visual polish, responsive controls and great use of music.
Winners Middle School
God of Vaccines
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong
Team members: Ronon, Alyssa, Martin, Zuocheng, Yannick, Asher, Ruifan
God of Vaccines is a clever crafting puzzle game that puts players in the lab developing new vaccines against the clock. The judges were impressed with the games concept, backstory and the overall execution of the project as a whole.
Winners Senior School
Bill the Pill
Dulwich College Beijing
Team members: Aaron, Jason, Kynan, Lucas, Hee Jun, Henri
Bill the pill is a sokoban style puzzle game where players take control of Bill directly inside a patient. The judges commented on the interesting mechanics, strong and consistent art direction which is complimented by its interesting narrative.
This has been the most fiercely contested game jam yet and we'd like to thank all teams who have taken part this year. We hope you all learnt new skills and enjoyed the opportunity to improve your game development talents.
We'd also like to thank our expert judges, workshop leaders and facilitators:
- Benjamin Gallier, Francois Remacle and Magnum Lam, workshops leaders and judges from Ubisoft Shanghai
- Brian Byun, guest judge from the University of Utah Asia Campus
- Jared Rigby, facilitator from Gameful Software
The Worldwise Game Jam will return in early 2026. If you'd like to try out the games from this year and previous years yourself, all student entries can be found at: https://gamejam.dulwich.org/
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