The twin cities area is home to many board game designers and publishers. This site’s purpose is to be a resource for them, but if you are not based here, we hope you find it useful anyway!

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Calendar

This calendar is an exhaustive list of events of interest to MN game designers. You can also see a separate list of just the events hosted by Split Perspective Studios.

July 2024

• Fri, July 12th - Design Day - Game Day!
  3:30pm-10:30pm Gamezenter

• Wed, July 17th - IGDATC - Twin Cities Playtest
  6:30pm, Noble Robot - An evening of in-development games!

• Sat, July 20th - Design Day - Playtesting
  2pm-6pm, The Source

• Sat, July 28th - Design Day - Playtesting
  2pm-6pm, The Source

August 2024

• Thu - Sun, Aug 1-4 - GenCon, in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Fri, Aug 2nd - Game Day!! (Gamezenter)
• Sat, Aug 17th - Design Day
• Fri - Sun, Aug 23-25 - 2D CON!
• Sun, Aug 25th - GAME JAM at 2D Con!

September 2024

• Fri, Sep 6th - GAME DAY (and Trevor’s birthday!) (Gamezenter)
• Sat, Sep 21st - IRON DESIGNER CHALLENGE (2p-6p)
• Sun, Sep 22nd - IRON DESIGNER CHALLENGE (2p-6p)

October 2024

• Thu-Sun, Oct 3-6 - Essen Spiel, in Essen, Germany
• Fri, Oct 11th - Game Day!! (Gamezenter)
• Sat, Oct 19th- Design Day

• Sun, Oct 27th - Design Day

  Events that previously appeared on this calendar.

Last updated 2024-07-10. If you’d like your events included here, please get in touch.