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Game Designers in the Spotlight – the SAZ presents facts (update)

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0200

June 29, 2010: 22 years ago the famous Coaster Proclamation of Alex Randolph and some other noted game designers was an important signal to succeed with naming the designer on the box covers. The Game Designer Association (SAZ) started now a new page on their webiste to follow up this intention. A plea with a historic overview illuminates the specific of game designers. A Big Publisher Overview shows how companies present the game designers and artists nowadays. Positive and outstanding examples should encourage others to do more.

Direct link: http://www.spieleautorenzunft.de/game-designers-in-the-spotlight.html

June 07, 2010: First reactions have resulted in a 2nd updated overview of the publisher. Also announced a number of publishers optimizations. We are pleased that our inititiative is already effective.

Game Designer Meeting in Göttingen successfully finished

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:09:00 +0200

The German Game Designer Meeting in Göttingen (June 05/06, 2010) came to a successful end on Sunday. 165 tables of game designers from Germany and abroad show the high acceptance of this meeting, where they presented their unpublished games, discussed among themselves and offered them to many representatives of the publisher.

The annual Innovation Award INNO-Spatz went this year to the American website BOARDGAMEGEEK.COM. This prize is awarded for outstanding performance to highlight the position, role and work of the designers of games in the public consciousness. BoardGameGeek is the number one international website about games, authors, designers and publishers. The representative of BoardGameGeek, Derk Solko, donated the prize money of 1,000 € to the game Game Designer Association (SAZ) to support their work.

The 2010 Game Designers's Scholarship Prize won Karin Hetling from Osnabrück in Germany. She will graduate in a number of publishers and institutions of the games industry for several days and so can significantly broaden her experience. The jury consisted of representatives of the jury Game of the Year and the SAZ and additionally the winner of last year. A warm congratulations to our member Karin!

Jury Game of the Year: The nominated and recommandated games 2010

Mon, 31 May 2010 12:20:00 +0200

The Jury Game of the Year has annouced today their first decisions. Five games are nominated for the Game of the Year and five games for children's Game of the Year. Ten further games each have been listed on the the two supplement recommandation lists. Additionally they have this year a special award for a gamers game, the Game of the Year plus.

We congratulate all designers of these games and particularly our members Karl-Heinz Schmiel, Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck, Manfred Ludwig, Oliver Igelhaut, Kirsten Becker, Jens-Peter Schliemann, Stefan Risthaus, Renhard Staupe, Reiner Knizia, Sébastien Pauchon, Bruce Allen, Anja Dreier-Brückner, Steffen Bogen, Matthias Prinz, Heinz Meister, Chislaine van den Bulk, Michael Rieneck and Stefan Stadler.

Designers of JUNGLE SPEED won lawsuit against plagiarists

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:37:00 +0200

The game designers of JUNGLE SPEED, Pierrick Yakovenko and Thomas Vuarchex, which has been published in France by Asmodee, won a lawsuit against a plagiarism product, called Jungle Jam. Further information on boardgamenews.com or in French on the website of trictrac.net.

Valdora awarded in Poland with the GRA ROKU 2009

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:47:00 +0200

The game Valdora by Michael Schacht, published by Abacus, has been awarded in Poland. The games magazin Swiat Gier Planszowych has it awarded as best family game with the GRA ROKU 2009 (PDF-Download 632 KB). We congratulate our member Michael Schacht.

German Games Archive moved to Nuernberg

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:01:00 +0200

The German Games Archive (Deutsches Spielearchiv) moved from Marburg to Nuernberg. The founder, Dr. Bernward Thole, was not able to finance this project any longer. After 30 years of enthusiasm and lots of work he handed over the archive to the City of Nuernberg where it will be part of the museums structure.

The final concept will be published in May. Hopefully it will have a great future and can be used by the public and by professionals like game designers. Games are part of our culture - the archive fulfills there an important contribution.

The winners of the Hippodice Game Designer Award

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:16:00 +0100

The jury of the 22nd Hippodice Game Designer Award has announced the winners on March 16:

1st place: Cames Drive by Hans-Reinhard Gottwald
2nd place: Die Staufer by Andreas Steding
3rd place: Midgard Marauders by Yort Watson

Special prize for the best full evening game: Altiplano by Louis & Stefan Malz,
special prize fot the best two players game: Moeraki - Kemu by Stefan Kiehl.

On the recomandation list of 2010 are Panorama by Heinrich Gumpler and Tier Pfleger & Co. by Stefan Risthaus. Further information you can find on the website of the organizers (only in German).

We congratulate our members Stefan Malz and Stefan Risthaus and noticed with interest that several game designers from other countries are under the finalists. The SAZ is a sponsor of this award, which has been already for many game designers the springboard to a published game.

Awarded: Japan Board Game Prize 2009 - update

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:00 +0100

The winners of the Japan Board Game Prize 2009 have been announced now:

1st: Dominion by Donald Vaccarino - in Japan published by Hobby Japan
2nd: Pandemic by Matt Leacock - in Japan published by Hobby Japan
3rd: Agricola by Uwe Rosenberg - in Japan published by Hobby Japan
4th: Le Havre by Uwe Rosenberg - in Japan now published by Hobby Japan
5th: Let's catch the Lion by Madoka Kitao - published by Gentosha Education
6th: Small World by Philipe Keyearts - published by Hobby Japan
7th: Dominion-Intrigue by Donald Vaccarino - published by Hobby Japan
8th: Galaxy Trucker by Vladimir Chvatil - published by Czech Games Edition
9th: ... aber bitte mit Sahne by Jeffrey D. Allers - published by Winning Moves
10th: Domemo by Alex Randolph - published by Gentosha Education

We congratulate our members Uwe Rosenberg and Jeffrey D. Allers for this success. You find further information on the Website of the organizers.

AS D' OR honours Klaus Teuber

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:00 +0100

The organizers of the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes have honoured Klaus Teuber for his life's work. Klaus Teuber became mainly well known by his Catan games. But as well other successfull and awarded games show his various creativity.

We congratulate our founding member to this success and wish a lot of creativity furthermore.

BGG website is historic important!

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:40:00 +0100

The United States Library of Congress has selected Boardgamegeek for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including Web sites.