FoxMind looking for board game pitches - deadline tomorrow!

Russ from Draughts Board Game Cafe has just let me know that Foxmind, a North American Board Games Company will be visiting their board games cafe in London on Thursday June 1st.

They are inviting local board game designers to submit a sales sheet to submissions@foxmind.com in order to be considered. Unfortunately the deadline is tomorrow 29th May, so you will have to be quick.

Below is direct from their press release:

WHAT FOXMIND IS LOOKING FOR

FoxMind is a family friendly board game company who publishes multiple types of board games, toys and logic puzzles. We are constantly searching for new game concepts of the following types:

- Light strategy games (45 minutes) - Party and dexterity games - Puzzle solving games - Kid games - Quick and portable mini-games.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please include the following elements in your email:

- A short summary of your game concept - Game rules in PDF or DOC format - Pictures or video file.

Sharing with us your game design experience and what lead you to design the submitted game is a great way for us to know you better. Any information we have helps us decide which games are on our list of potential releases.

WHEN CAN I EXPECT FEEDBACK FOR MY SUBMISSION

We will provide quick feedback to selected designers to schedule a meeting. Other designers will receive a response within the Month of June.

If you have any questions regarding game submissions, please write to us at submissions@foxmind.com.

90 mins playtesting session available to book.

The 90 mins playtesting session at the Playtest zone at the UK Games Expo are now available to book on a first-come-first-served.

Beforehand, you will need to register your game and details here: https://goo.gl/forms/j1wKCzx3X5h6PUQD2

Then you can book a 90 mins session here: http://doodle.com/poll/bewbqekk9etx5r2z

A daily record of the bookings will be kept on an online google document here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xLnHepn0ku7SuxWvJmWXZS8QkQHmy8z2VvYn22EwObs/edit?usp=sharing

Look forward to seeing you at Expo.

MtM Designer/Publisher Speed-Dating Finalists Announced!

The finalists for the Meet the Makers Designer/Publisher Speed-Dating event at the UK Games Expo 217 have been announced!

They are as follows:

Changnan - Fabio Lopiano
Jazz - Robb Smigielski & Jamie Gray
Gentrification - Andreas Fidjeland
Beggar Man Thief - Nick Case
Stop Dr Evil - Mike Ibeji
Dungeon Cards - Jamie Woodhead
StellaTransporter - Chris Owen
To Have & To Hold - Curtis Reubens
Gribblies - Anna Parry & Alex Thompson
Caravans of the Silk Road - Jen Freeman
Elemental Ascent - Andrew Dennison with Laura Mitchell
The Bank Job - Michal Semczyszyn

1st Reserve: Wasteland Justice - Matthew Morris

The publishers hearing the pitches will be:

Alex Yeager - Mayfair Games

Zev Schlasinger - Wizkds

Sebastian Hein - Pegasus Games

Bernd Keller - Amigo Spiele

Beate Haasbach - Queen Games

Duncan Molloy - Osprey Games

Henry Jasper - Grublin Games

Laurence O'Brien - Wotan Games

Steve Slack - Spiral Galaxy

Lewis Shaw - Brain Crack Games
Peter Blenkharn - In the Box Games

Caezar Al-Jassar - Alley Cat Games

The event will take place at 6.30pm Friday 2nd June 2017 at the UK Game Expo.

New Logo - Feedback wanted

As part of the revamp of Playtest UK, we are looking to update our logo will a more professional looking version.

Robb Smigielski has very kindly created a treatment of various possibilities and it would be great to get the feedback of of members to make sure that we have retained the right feel and image.

If you are interested, please give your feedback by completing our online questionnaire, which can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/MbZsuIZzYag52YWz1

Expo volunteers needed!

Sign up below!

This year Playtest UK will be running three events at the UK Games Expo on Friday 2nd-Sunday 4th June 2017.

The Playtest Zone will run as usual on each day of the convention: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

The Designer/Publisher Speed-Dating will be on Friday 2nd June 6pm-8pm.

the Designer/Publisher Networking will be on Friday 2nd June 9pm-10.30pm

All of our events are only possible because of our fantastic volunteers. If you are interested in joining our volunteer team, please follow this link to a google form to enter your details and availability: https://goo.gl/forms/KFTRSWsLvvwDENWg2

We are able to offer Expo day passes to volunteers that can help out for a certain amount of hours during the event. Also, volunteers will get the first choice of playtesting sessions.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Rob Harris via the usual contact form.