Game Chef
Game Chef was an annual American contest for role-playing game designers.
History
Jason Morningstar submitted The Shab-al-Hiri Roach to the Game Chef 2005 competition, where it was chosen as one of the "Inner Circle" - the group of the nine best games from that year's 28 entrants.[1]: 290 [2]
Morningstar also wrote Durance for the Game Chef 2011 competition.[1]: 304 [3]
With time it evolved into a marketing event which created "national" editions, where small groups of players (generally connected to publishing micro-companies) assigned prizes to friends or game companies for which they worked.[4] Game Chef ended in 2020 due to the low interest demonstrated by the RPG community. Trials to revive it were unsuccessful for the same reason.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.
- ^ Game Chef entry
- ^ "Alumni Report: Durance". April 2012.
- ^ Beakley, Paul (2015-06-29). "Game Chef Talk". The Indie Game Reading Club. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ "Game Chef 2023". itch.io. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- ^ CauliflowerHater (2020-06-22). "What happened with the Game Chef competition?". r/rpg. Retrieved 2023-06-05.