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Witches Den

November 2025
This challenge has ended

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Thanks you all for participating!

briefing

What Are Team Challenges?

Artists from different backgrounds join forces in Team Challenges, working in teams of five to design and complete an environment from scratch in five weeks. This is a chance to refine your collaboration and communication skills, work towards a unified vision, and make team-based decisions — all essential skills for a professional setting. Additionally, you’ll gain hands-on experience using source control, a crucial tool in any studio workflow. At the end of it, you’ll have a fully fledged environment piece to add to your portfolio!

What You’ll Gain

  • Stronger communication and teamwork skills
  • A polished, portfolio-worthy environment
  • Hands-on experience with source control
  • The ability to specialize in one area instead of handling everything alone

Challenge Theme: Witches Den

"The den is no ordinary dwelling. It is a place of gathering, of weaving, of unseen forces crossing paths. Every corner hides a fragment of intent, every object a story. Will you find wisdom, or awaken something beyond your grasp?”

Timeline

  • 11th October Sign-ups Open
  • 16th October Sign-ups Close, Team Formation & Email Approval
  • 18th October Kick-off Stream (Live on Discord) & Challenge Start
  • 25th October Beginning of the production stage of the challenge
  • 22th November Challenge Deadline & Submission
  • 23th November Finals Livestream & Winner Reveal

Judges and Mentors

Each team will be provided a mentor that will remain with you throughout the entirety of the challenge! Your mentor is around to give weekly feedback.

Mentors are separate from Judges. At the end of the challenge, a panel of industry professionals will evaluate each submission based on key criteria, ultimately selecting the grand winner. These judges will be revealed during the Kick-off Stream.

INFORMATION

THE BASICS

- Teams are made up of 5 artists, teams are assembled by the challenge organisers (we try, where possible, to arrange the teams to give the optimal experience by balancing factors such as time zones)

- There are both realistic and stylised teams

- The challenge is 5 weeks made up of; 1 week of setup, ideas, planning and blockout and 4 full production weeks. The complete timeline can be found in the calendar below.

- Teams will be provided with source control and starting resources, such as basic shaders, so you and your team can get up to speed quickly.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

You can sign-up for the challenge without being a member of the community via the form. After sign-ups close we invite artist that meet the expectations to join the challenge. If you accept this invite to participate you will need to sign-up to the 'DISCORD ACCESS' tier on our Website for the duration of challenge.
By signing up you also get all the other benefits such as full access to the discord, Environment Art Tips and Tricks collection, Weekly Live Feedback Stream, Your art included in our weekly newsletter and more on top of your entry to the team challenge.

OUR EXPECTATIONS

CALENDAR

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JOIN THE NEXT ONE

These challenges occur every couple of months, so make sure you check out our calendar for when it will happen!

see the

livestream

introducing our

judges

Johann William Loffler
Zehra Khan
Lead Environment Artist
Fortis Games
Rishab Nanda
Lead Environment Artist
Crytek
introducing our

mentor team

Timothy Dries
Founder, Senior Environment Artist
Beyond Extent & Playground Games
Adam Dencker
Environment Artist
EA DICE
Helena E H Hansen
Junior Level Artist
Fishlabs
Lloyd James
Head of Team Challenges
Scot Daniel burns
Team Challenge Support
Luis Mesquita
Senior Environment Artist
Verena Gruse
Senior Environment/Prop artist
Ubisoft Berlin
meet the

teams

team

Spoopy

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Helena E H Hansen

team mentor

Ana Cristina Pacheco

Matteo Mazzon

Yosef Yilma

Lili Bruijn

Eden Gates

Eden Gates

team

moonlight sorcery

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Eanna O'Brien

Aneeza Ashraf

Leo Yuanli

Russell Charlwood

Guillaume

Guillaume

team

Maya, I Barely Know Her

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Scot Daniel burns

team mentor

Darius Jover

Elmo La Mantia

Samir Riecke

Harsh Maan

Brady Thomas

Brady Thomas

team

4Midable Gang

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Diane Picaud

team mentor

Tom Turner

Vasyl Kovalinskyi

Julen Araujo

Göktuğ Küçük

Kit Clarke

Kit Clarke

team

Cart Gang

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Martijn Vaes

Carla Laurini

Jasper Kusama

John McCormac

Millie Rye

Millie Rye

team

Magic Brooms and Magic Rooms

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Luis Mesquita

team mentor

Vladyslav Lusnikov

Renan da Costa

Kade Griffin

Olaf Szwast

Ameera Shashi

Ameera Shashi

team

Lucky 7

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Scot Daniel burns

team mentor

Justin Colombini

Abdou Bouam

Sebastain Long

Ezgi Erdemir

Zoe Browne

Zoe Browne

team

100 Bats in the Shape of a Man

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Jack Goodman

Owen Chou

Dylan Marx

Andrew Bainard

Alex Weber

Alex Weber

team

Blockout_SAM

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Lloyd James

team mentor

David Bullock

Gizem Kara

Luke Odufona

Artsiom Liakhouski

Sam Bennett

Sam Bennett

team

More Focused On The Project

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Luis Mesquita

team mentor

Tobias Rintoul

Sergiu Nicalau

Alex Parkhomenko

Zaeem Ahmad

Ross Tinley-Thorpe

Ross Tinley-Thorpe

team

Voodoo You Think You Are

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Adam Dencker

team mentor

Jack Shergold

Joe Bates

Giovanni Lauffer

Daniel Kent

Malte Ekvall

Malte Ekvall

team

Whacky Whizards

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Marian Hall

Pedro Ramirez Jr

Claudio Zucca

Leonardo Lamat

Alejandro Martinez Rojas

Alejandro Martinez Rojas

team

Abraca-Lag-ra

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Dmitriy Sergienko

Ahmed Albaqlawa

Goktug Yilmaz

Harry Caress

Rahmat Hidayat

Rahmat Hidayat

team

LEVEL HEADED

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Timothy Dries

team mentor

Liza Zhukova

Jonathan Hu

Alex Serra

Elizabeth Metzger

Katie Ngo

Katie Ngo

got you interested?

These challenges only happen a couple of times a year, so make sure you go to the main page to check out when the next one is happening or check out our calendar down below.