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Hippodice Competition 2027
Dates will be announced soon. The application phase will start again in late summer 2026.
Hippodice Competition 2026
Application Phase (Submission of documents as PDF):
Start: August 17, 2025
Deadline: September 21, 2025
Preliminary Round (Review by Hippodice editors):
Editors’ Phase: October 10, 2025
Evaluation Deadline: October 24, 2025
Notification to game designers: by October 31, 2025 at the latest
Submission of prototypes (by the authors):
October 24 – November 7, 2025
Main Round (Prototype testing phase):
November 7, 2025 – February 13, 2026
Final Round (Evaluation by expert jury & award ceremony):
March 13 and 14, 2026
More info:
New in the 2026 Competition:
- Maximum of 3 submissions per author
- Playtime: Your prototype may have a maximum of 90 minutes of actual playtime (excluding rule explanation). More information about playtime can be found in the FAQ.
Benefits for authors
- Contact to many publishers
- All authors of the main round receive feedback: Praise, criticism, suggestions and suggestions for improvement — summarised from the evaluation sheets of the test rounds
- Award ceremony and result report increase awareness (Hippodice website, delivery to publishers and press representatives, BGG, social media)
- Good publishing opportunities for successful prototypes
- Numerous publications of participating games, among others: West of Africa, Ruhrschifffahrt, Mombasa. Many more examples in our long list of published titles.
Benefits for publishers
- Compressed presentation of the best rated prototypes from the main round
- High-quality prototypes selection thanks to numerous independent test rounds with evaluation system
- Wide range of different genres and game types
- High number of published prototypes proves high quality of games
- Numerous international participants
Participation
- Only unpublished game ideas
- Board-, card-, dice- and other games
- Everyone may participate as a game designer
- National and international attention