About SAZ: A strong interest group introduces itself

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FAQ: EXPERIENCED GAME AUTHORS ANSWER FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Games in the collection catalogs of the German and all other National Libraries!

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... than just a pastime ... playing together also strengthens social cohesion"

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Unfinished Business: A Plagiarism and that with Full Intention | UPDATE

A group around the German blogger and YouTuber Stefan Gust (Digger) has announced a game with the title "Unfinished Business" as a crowdfunding project, which not only according to our opinion, but also according to that of many online commentators, is to be considered a plagiarism of the game BIG DEAL by Brent & Jeffrey Beck. Now Brent Beck himself comments.

Karla Kuchenfee (Moo's Code) by Anja Wrede was plagiarized

Plagiarism seems to be booming. The German game author Anja Wrede reported on BoardGameGeek about a Chinese plagiarism of her game "Karla Kuchenfee", which was first published in 2010 by her own publishing house Edition Siebenschläfer.

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GAME PUBLISHERS DO NOT HAVE BLANKET RIGHTS TO MAKE CHANGES!

18th IDEAG - The Italian National Meeting of Board Game Designers

SAZ welcomes its 600th member

Euronews.culture | Meet Reiner Knizia – the man who’s designed over 700 board games

Mojo Nation | Interview with Jens-Peter Schliemann about toys and game development

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Events

Apr

18th IDEAG - The Italian National Meeting of Board Game Designers

Saturday, 01.04.2023–02.04.2023

May

Play Festival del Gioco (Italy, Modena)

Friday, 19.05.2023–21.05.2023

Oct

SPIEL'23 in Essen

Wednesday, 04.10.2023–08.10.2023

Nov

Lucca Comics & Games (Italy)

Wednesday, 01.11.2023–05.11.2023

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BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Knowing to belong to a professional and strong community is protecting me at every step: from the first idea up to the publication.

Carlo E. Lanzavecchia

As a game designer living abroad the SAZ is important to me to help with contracts, share know-how about publishers and, maybe the most important reason of all, getting to know my colleagues.

Liesbeth Bos

The SAZ is the strong voice for a fair and cooperative partnership with publishers!

Marco Teubner

I joined the SAZ because designing games is a young profession and we game designers need to communicate about our status, rights and duties.

Antoine Bauza

The SAZ is more than just a successful advocacy. It provides authors a home and lets them share their wealth of experience. Thus, it was and is an vital component of today’s diverse and challenging games landscape.

Klaus Teuber

Without game designers, there would be no games. The SAZ brings us designers together to promote the culture of gaming so that many people can enjoy our games.

Reiner Knizia

The combined expertise of the SAZ and its members, the networking among them and the many nice “colleagues” are worth gold.

Inka Brand

I always find competent contact persons in the SAZ for my questions. Thanks to SAZ my interests towards games publishers are well represented.

Janet Kneisel

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Game authors/designers

About SAZ: A strong interest group introduces itself

FAQ: EXPERIENCED GAME AUTHORS ANSWER FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Games in the collection catalogs of the German and all other National Libraries!

Experience and expertise for members – Now online seminars too

... than just a pastime ... playing together also strengthens social cohesion"

Contract negotiations with publishers on equal footing

News

Unfinished Business: A Plagiarism and that with Full Intention | UPDATE

Karla Kuchenfee (Moo's Code) by Anja Wrede was plagiarized

More news

GAME PUBLISHERS DO NOT HAVE BLANKET RIGHTS TO MAKE CHANGES!

18th IDEAG - The Italian National Meeting of Board Game Designers

SAZ welcomes its 600th member

Euronews.culture | Meet Reiner Knizia – the man who’s designed over 700 board games

Mojo Nation | Interview with Jens-Peter Schliemann about toys and game development

Events

18th IDEAG - The Italian National Meeting of Board Game Designers

Play Festival del Gioco (Italy, Modena)

SPIEL'23 in Essen

Lucca Comics & Games (Italy)

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITYAND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS

Game authors/designers

Stefan Malz

Hilko Drude

Gerd Fenchel

Anna Oppolzer

Simona Greco

Jürgen Adams

Giacomo Sottocasa

Uwe-Jens Maruschke

Verena Wiechens

Matthias Cramer

Daniel Bahr

Jendrik Odenwäller

Jochen Knittel

Gebrüder Frei

Dirk Andreas Taube

Andreas Kuhnekath-Häbler

Matteo Sassi

Colin Dömer

Simone Löhrke

Arve D. Fühler

Stefan Dorra

Björn Müller-Mätzig

Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia

Clark Rodeffer

Tanja Malinowski

Richard Lenherr

Christian Giove

Michele Piccolini

Emanuele Briano

Torsten Marold

Carlo A. Rossi

David Betzing

Stefania Niccolini

Silvano Sorrentino

Kirsten Hiese

Sophia Wagner

Stefano Negro

Paul Schulz

Michael Palm

Helmut Ortlepp

Eric Marks

Markus Haberbosch

Stefan Kloß

Thomas Franken

Manfred Reindl

Johnny Ebsen

Jeffrey Allers

Peter Ratschiller

Heiko Korntheuer

Michael Diechtierow

Lucien Geelhoed

Arpad Fritsche

Simon Kösters

Rainer Schlichtholz

Florian Ortlepp

Anja Wrede

Francesco Giovo

Fabio Lopiano

BECOME A MEMBER IN A STRONG COMMUNITY
AND REPRESENTATION OF INTERESTS