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Game Design Contest: OBSCURE FORCES

Sun, 11/17/2013 - 07:55 — Crensh3000ad

The game development studio „Effective Evolutions“ and the hobby game retailer „Spiele-Offensive.de“ unite in order to bring you the international game design contest „Obscure Forces“. The Kickstarter campaign for the Lovecraft-inspired, Berlin-based survival horror game U55-END OF THE LINE may be over but that does not stop us from bringing you gamemakers another contest!

>>> What's the deal?

Re: New Game Competition with $500 prize!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 11:32 — Headz

Thanks to (SedjTroll?) for locking the thread. It was getting unproductive. You might want to pre-emptively lock this one, too, but for people who want more information (and to follow the Q & A) the same thread is going on at:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1062168/game-design-competition

Thanks to everyone who has entered so far. Some good ideas coming in! We're excited!

The Council of Excited Elders

New Game Competition with $500 prize!

Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:08 — Headz

Attention tabletop gamers, geeks, nerds and lovers of sci-fi!

Art thou desirious of filthy lucre and fame? Canst thou craft a wondrous and bedazzling, never-before-seen game of dice? Durst thou tax thy mental capacity in this Herculean endeavor? If so, we challenge thee to complete this arduous quest:

Create an interactive game that uses characters from outer space as its pieces. Evil forces have turned these poor, wretched souls into cubes (dice) and left them with just six basic emotions (displayed on sides of the dice) which you must utilize for scoring.

TGC's Contest Management System

Tue, 07/16/2013 - 13:06 — The Game Crafter

We now have a new system for tracking all the game design contests we run. You can see all our current and past contests here: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/contests

Game design competitions

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 22:57 — j1hopki1

Does anyone know of any game design competitions at conventions? Thanks.

Boston FIG Game Design Contest

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 20:51 — Aerjen

Dear board game designers,

Introducing the Boston Festival of Indie Games Design Showcase!
New in 2013, we welcome submissions of board, card, and tabletop games to our competitive section of the showcase. The eligible submissions have to fulfill the following requirements:

  • All types of games can be submitted, except solitaires, brain-teasers and expansions of existing games.
  • The game has been released after October 2012 or is a prototype still in production.
  • The game should be independently produced and published.

The Mystique Game Design Contest

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 18:07 — coco
The Mystique deck

Hi, all.

The Mystique Game Design Contest has just begun; a competition to design the best games for The Mystique Deck:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/141291/the-mystique-deck

The aim of the The Mystique Game Design Contest is to produce the best set of games that human designers can invent for The Mystique Deck. These games might then be used in a future AI experiment to see whether even better games can be found by automated means. We're planning to run such experiment, but we still don't know if this will be possible.

YOU MAKE THE CARD!! Your card idea printed in the Elemental Clash Master Set!

Fri, 05/03/2013 - 03:19 — jilocasin
You make the Card!!

Fellow game designers, dear friends of fantasy card games!

My game "Elemental Clash: The Master Set" will hit Kickstarter in about a month's time.
Please have a look at some of the cards in my visual card spoiler over at

http://www.elementalclash.com/cards/ec-the-master-set-partial-spoiler/

You will find a lot of other stuff, like game rules or nice desktop wallpapers there as well.

Now what this post is actually about:

Ludopolis Contest

Mon, 11/26/2012 - 09:20 — Dralius

[quote=Arkiris]Dear board game designers,

Ludopolis Contest is back in 2013! Every person aged 18 or more may enter the contest, regardless of his nationality or having or not any game published. Only unpublished games will be admitted, and each designer can send up to 3 games. Games that have entered the previous edition of the contest are eligible only if significant changes in the rules have been made. Only board games will be accepted. Preferably, the contest is seeking for family and fast games. So, it is not recommended to send games that exceed 75 minutes (approx.) of game play. Participation is free.

Game Crafter Contests

Mon, 11/19/2012 - 09:47 — Dralius

The Game Crafter wrote:
We at The Game Crafter hold game design contests several times per year with cash and other prizes. Our latest contest was a co-op design challenge, which just ended. We should be announcing another one in the next few weeks.

https://community.thegamecrafter.com/contests

We are not a one stop shop for all the contests out there however. We only post our own. Just wanted to answer the second half of your question about what other contests were out there.

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