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Prospective Chefs, get your game design fingers warmed up. In two weeks we’ll be announcing the theme and ingredients for this year’s Game Chef competition. Clear your calendar from June 13th-21st so that you can work on making the best analog game you can!
What is Game Chef?
Game Chef is an annual game design competition. Each year, the coordinators select one theme and four ingredients. Participants get 10 days to create a brand-new tabletop roleplaying game, board or card game, or other analog game. Your game should fit the theme, and incorporate three of the ingredients. All contestants then receive four other contestants’ games to review anonymously. Based on the reviews, the coordinators pick a champion for each language community. (Game Chef is being run in seven languages this year — so you can design your game in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Russian, French, Italian, or Polish.) The winners from each language community will then go up against each other for the global Game Chef championship.
Everyone can participate in Game Chef, whether you’re a seasoned game designer or have never designed a game before. We welcome designers of all experience levels from all walks of life. Even if you don’t win, it’s an awesome accomplishment to say that you designed a whole game in 10 days.
The announcement of this year’s theme and ingredients will be made on June 13th at 12:01 a.m. New Zealand Standard Time (UTC+12) to make sure everyone has the full amount of time to work on their game.
Get yourself prepared by reading this year’s rules carefully. Then bookmark this page, join our Google+ community, or follow us on Twitter to get the announcement of the theme and ingredients when they come up!