Submit Your Game
How to Judge
Round One Game List
The Board Game Workshop Design Contest is an annual contest for unfinished, analog games. It is open to designers of all ages from around the world. The contest is focused on giving and receiving feedback and developing pitch videos. The feedback can be helpful to improve your game and the experience of making pitch videos and providing feedback to others can improve how you present your game.
To enter the contest you must submit a 2-minute video about your game. Your video will be viewed by other contest entrants and additional judges. If you provide feedback to at least 5 other games in round one of the contest, your game will move on to round two. There is no scoring in round one.
Round two games will be split into 9 groups based on complexity and polish according to their round one feedback. Each group will have roughly the same number of games. Round two designers will submit a 5-minute video. Designers must provide feedback to at least 5 other games in round two of the contest to be eligible to win. Judges will score games in round two and the highest scoring eligible game in each group will be the winner of that group.
Join the Discord to discuss the contest, ask questions, and share your games.
If you have any questions about the contest, ask in the Discord or email chris@theboardgameworkshop.com
Submit Your Game
How to Judge
Round One Game List
Dates may change. All deadlines are end of day UTC -12.
| April 3 | Submissions Due |
| April 5-May 15 | Round One Feedback |
| June 5 | Round Two Submissions Due |
| June 12-July 17 | Round Two Feedback |
| July 24 | Winners Announced |
Past Finalists
Past Finalist Contest Video Links
The listed links are the original submission materials for the games and some links may no longer work.