BoardGameGeek ( BGG ) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games , including European-style board games , wargames , and card games . In addition to the game database, the site allows users to rate games on a 1–10 scale and publishes a ranked list of board games.
9-523: BoardGameGeek was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, and marked its 20th anniversary on 20 January 2020. Since 2005, BoardGameGeek hosts an annual board game convention, BGG.CON, that has a focus on playing games, and where winners of the Golden Geek Awards are announced. New games are showcased and convention staff is provided to teach rules. There is also an annual Spring BGG.CON which
18-500: A counter that reads "Nazi™" from the game. While the trademark claim was present at Lucasfilm's insistence, it led to rumors that TSR had tried to trademark the term. In October 2021, it was announced that the physical award had been lost in transit. A committee member stated "Perhaps it now sits in a box inside a warehouse somewhere, as forgotten and unappreciated as the Ark of the Covenant at
27-568: A shortlist of three to seven nominees in spring, and the award is presented to the winner at Gen Con in Indianapolis in August. The Diana Jones trophy was originally created as a keepsake in the UK offices of TSR in the mid 1980s to commemorate the ending of their license to publish The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game . The trophy itself was a lucite pyramid containing the burnt remains of
36-407: A sign of "excellence". The award was first presented in 2001. Nominees are circulated during the year to the committee , which is mostly anonymous but which is known to include Peter Adkison , Matt Forbeck , John Kovalic and James Wallis . The committee is anonymous to protect the voting process from interference, but individual judges are free to reveal themselves. The committee releases
45-649: Is family friendly, and an annual BGG@Sea which is held on a cruise. In 2010, BoardGameGeek received the Diana Jones Award , which recognized it as "a resource without peer for board and card gamers, the recognized authority of this online community." The New York Times has called BoardGameGeek "the hub of board gaming on the Internet." In 2020, BoardGameGeek was inducted into the Origins Award Hall of Fame. The site has branched out into other fields by using
54-577: The Year" replaced with "Game of the Year, Light", "Medium" and "Heavy". Diana Jones Award The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in gaming ". The original award was made from a burned book encased in lucite. The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person , product , publication , company , organization , event or trend – anything related to gaming; second, it does not count popularity or commercial success as
63-581: The end of Raiders of the Lost Ark." A new physical award was debuted in 2022, and the committee announced the launch of a new award, the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program. The Diana Jones Committee became a 501(c)(3) registered charity in 2023. The Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program is awarded to "rising and impactful talent in the analog tabletop/hobby games industry" and aims to amplify "the voices of up-and-coming designers with
72-487: The last unsold copy of the game; all that was legible of the title was " diana Jones ". (There is no relation of the award with fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones .) The trophy was "liberated" and eventually ended up with the Diana Jones committee. The destruction of "one of the least-loved and critically savaged games of all time" was seen an appropriate symbol for an award for excellence in gaming. The trophy also contains
81-591: The same system for RPGs and video games (rpggeek.com and videogamegeek.com). Since 2006, the site annually awards the best new board games of the year with the Golden Geek Award. Winners are selected based on a vote by registered users. RPG and Video game awards were introduced in 2014 and awarded through 2017. Only 1 category was awarded in 2018, and none in following years. Player's Handbook (D&D 5e) Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition) 2020 saw many awards replaced with new categories, such as "Board Game of
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