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The 2025 Hippodice competition has finished! Application phase ended on 13, 2024. Winners were announced in April 2025. New competition will start in summer/autumn.
Preliminary round (editing): October and November 2024
Main round (testing the prototypes): from November 2024
Final round (jury) and award ceremony: spring 2025
More info:
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- Only unpublished game ideas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