August 2021 - Indie Groundbreaker Nominees & Summer Series Wrap-Up

Happy August!

We’re gearing up for the wild ride of Gen Con & Origins back-to-back. But here’s what we’ve got going on in the meantime…

And The Nominees Are…

Here are the games nominated for this year’s Indie Groundbreaker Awards! Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you to everyone who submitted!

 

Most Innovative

  • Beak, Feather & Bone

  • The Wizards and the Wastes

  • On the Wings of a Red Dragonfly

  • Our Mundane Supernatural Life

  • This Discord has Ghosts in it

Best Setting

  • Barrow Keep

  • Karanduun

  • Visigoths vs Mall Goths

  • Hounds of the Tsar

  • Mainframe

Game of the Year

  • Crescendo Giocoso Ritornello

  • Honey & Hot Wax

  • Karanduun

  • Our Mundane Supernatural Life

  • Space Goblins

Best Art

  • MoonPunk

  • No Stone Unturned

  • Space Goblins

  • Sunken

  • Lutong Banwa

Best Rules

  • Slayers

  • Space Goblins

  • Last Fleet

  • Mainframe

  • Our Mundane Supernatural Life

 

Summer Marketing Series!

Last month we hosted a host of incredible speakers for our first ever Summer Marketing Series. We hope you were able to learn from their expertise. If you’d like to see us do future events like this, please take the time to fill out this feedback forms and give us your suggestions

If you missed the event, we’ve posted all the recordings on YouTube and they are accessible via Basecamp. Here’s the link to basecamp.

Events & Social Calendar

Upcoming Conventions

  • Sept 16-19: GenCon

  • Sept 30-Oct 3: Origins Game Fair

  • Dec 10-12: Pax Unplugged

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Thanks for reading! May all your rolls be natural twenties.

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