The Hippodice Game Club was founded more than 25 years ago. We meet every other friday in the "Kulturzentrum Bahnhof Langendreer" in Bochum, Germany.
We are best known and famous for our "Hippodice Autorenwettbewerb", with this contest the club intends to bridge the gap between game designers and publishers and to initiate contact between designers and players. We want to help editors and publishers to sort out all these newly developed games and we also want to help designers find their way to the publishers. The Competition is open to all kinds of ready - to - play prototypes. An experienced committee of publishers will select a winner. Only thoroughly tested and selected games will be recommended to the major game publishing companies.

Hippodice Game Designers' Competition 2019

The 30th Game Designers' Competition of Hippodice Spieleclub has started on July, the 15th.
The deadline for the application for the 2019 competition was October the 3rd, 2018! We wish all participants good luck!

Year by year over 190 applications are submitted to the organizers from which the best titles are selected for participation in the main round of the competition. For the 2019 competition, the organizers again expect many new ideas from the game designers; be it strategy, family, or children's games, board games or card games, long or short games.
Previous successes confirm the competition is a major opportunity for game designers. Many titles from the competition have been published in recent years - titles that otherwise may not have reached the public.

More information about the competition and how to apply can be found, when the competition starts, on our website.
The rules and further information can be found here.
The application process has been simplified. Interested game designers must apply for the competition using the form found at the above link. The members of the Hippodice Spieleclub e. V. are looking forward to an exciting and imaginative competition in 2018 and wish a lot of fun and success to the designers!

Autorenwettwerb (AWB) Award Winners and published Finalists

For the complete list of Winners visit this BGG Wiki page.

2018
Winner Final Round: Belratti - Michael Loth

2017
Longplayer: Raiatea - Jan Schmidt

Recommended: Castell - Aaron Vanderbeek

Recommended: Clans of Caledonia - Juma Al-JouJou

2016
Winner Final Round: Calimala - Fabio Lopiano

Longplayer: Queen Anne’s Revenge - Dan Keltner
Kids: Määäääääh - Wolfgang Lehmann
Recommended: Agra (Vom Dorf in die Stadt) - Michael Keller (II)

2015
Final Round: West of Africa (Lancelotto Malocello) - Martin Schlegel

Longplayer: Aotearoa - Didier Rikelynck
2 Player: Minions! (Glade) - Gilbert Walker
Recommended: Solarius Mission (Dice for the Galaxy) - Michael Keller (II) & Andreas "ode." Odendahl

Participant of Final Round: Heldentaufe - Simon Junker

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Participant of Final Round: Barbie: Wer packt zuerst seine Koffer? (Zwerglispieli) - Daniel Fehr

Participant of Final Round: Gute Nacht Monster (Fallobst) - Hartwig Jakubik

2014
Final Round: Erik der Rote - Christian Scheibner
Longplayer: Dilluvia Project - Alexandre Garcia

Participant of Final Round: Haleakala (Das Haus der Sonne) - Florian Racky

2013
Final Round: Roma: Kampf um die Überreste Roms - Steffen Brückner
Second in Finale: Steam Noir: Revolution - Daniel Danzer

2 Player: Pagoda (Die Pagoden von Dra Chen) - Arve Daniel Fühler

Longplayer: Heinrich IV:Ein König auf Reisen - Christian Scheibner

2012
Final Round: Brethren of the Coast - Brett Gilbert

2 Player: Lamello - Klaus Salzmann
Longplayer: Kohle & Kolonie - Thomas Spitzer

2011
Final Round: Afrika 1830 - Alexander Pfister

Kids: Bienchen Bande - Carsten Schauf
Longplayer: Ruhrschifffahrt - Thomas Spitzer

2010
Final Round: Camel Drive - Hans Reinhard Gottwald
2 Player: Moeraki–Kemu - Stefan Kiehl

Longplayer: Altiplano - Louis Malz & Stefan Malz

2009
Final Round: Noblemen - Dwight Sullivan

Kids: Ententeich - Stefan Breuer

Longplayer: Macht$piele (Die Firma) - Maximilian Thiel

2008
Final Round: Agora - Harald Lieske

Kids: Elfi - Kirsten Hiese
Longplayer: Cuzco - Antti Lehtinen & Juha Linnanen

2007
Final Round: Marburg - Markus Brand & Inka Brand
Kids: Backe Backe Kuchen - N/A
Longplayer: Caribè - Rob Bartel

2006
Final Round: East India Railway - Thomas Odenhoven
Kids: Husch hinter’n Busch - Udo Peise
Longplayer: Planet Steam (Planet Mars) - Heinz-Georg Thiemann

2005
Final Round: Square on Sale - Taiju Sawada

2004
Final Round: Emira (Harem) - Paul van Hove & Liesbeth Vanzeir

2003
Final Round: Aquadukt - Thomas Rauscher

2002
Final Round: Maya (Herrscher der Anden) - Bernd Eisenstein

2001
Final Round: Hekla (DinXX) - Martin Schlegel

2000
Final Round: Koggen - Hendrik Cornilly

1999
Final Round:Das Kollier - André Frobel

1998
Final Round: Kontor - Michael Schacht

1997
Final Round: Blindes Huhn - Michael Schacht

1996
Final Round: Boomtown - Berhard Weber

1995
Final Round: Interreg - Robert Puaschitz

1994
Final Round: Das Spiel der Weinberge (Vino) - Christwart Conrad

1993
Final Round: Charlys Pub - Stefan Dorra

1992
Final Round: Burgen am Rhein - Reinhard Herbert

1991
Final Round: Trophy Cup - Thomas Wewers & Karl-Heinz Reinelt

1990
Final Round: Käpt'n Flints Kumpane - Franz Josef Lamminger

1989
Final Round: Coconuts - Franz Josef Lamminger

More published games

2009
Hansa Teutonica (Wettstreit der Händler) - Andreas Steding

2003
Blokus 3D (Rumis) - Stefan Kögl

1999
Chinatown (Achterbahn AG) - Karsten Hartwig

1995
Mississippi Queen (Rafting) - Werner Hodel

...and many more!!!