Regional Groups of Game Authors
Here we can publish dates and contacts of regional authors groups and meetings. Please contact the SAZ Office for entries. For groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, please look at the German site.
Spellenmaakgilde (Dutch Game Design Guild) | Netherlands
Contact: info@spellenmaakgilde.nl
Remarks: We organise monthly playtesting in Groningen and other locations, have a digital community where we share resources, test online and more. Besides that we facilitate authors with presences during conventions, for example with our Author Plaza during Spellenspektakel (biggest tabletop games fair in the Netherlands).
You can find all events of the group here: www.meetup.com/nl-NL/prototype-testing-meetup/events/
More information: Spellenmaakgilde.nl
Playtest | UK
Playtest UK is a friendly group of board/card game designers and playtesters that meet regularly in London, Ely, Newcastle, Brighton, Cardiff, Leeds, Enfield, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh & Reading. Membership is open to everyone. Some members are established games designers, others are starting out or might be working on their first design. Others just come to play games in a friendly atmosphere. We are a community, where everyone has something to gain and to offer.
You can find our group here: www.meetup.com/Playtest, and there is a website here: http://www.playtest.co.uk/. There is a Twitter account: @playtestuk. Meetings are organised by each group, usually on www.meetup.com/Playtest.
Zurich | Switzerland
We meet every 3rd Thursday of the month from 18:30 at WellPlayed in Zurich Dübendorf and sometimes spontaneously in between. The meetings are usually in English and we test prototypes and exchange ideas.
Date: every 3rd Thursday of the month.
Location: WellPlayed, Zurich Dübendorf
Contact: Annika
More Information:
- Veranstaltungsreihe on the website of WellPlayed
- Eventreihe on Meetup
- Invitationlink to Discord Server, on which we are also active online (in the category “Board Game Designers”)