August 8, 2010 - 141 REGISTERED GAMES, IT'S A RECORD!
We have a new record! The 141 prototypes of this year, coming mostly from Italy, but also from the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain,  Australia, beat the previous 2004 edition record of 137 games!
The selection jury is already working  and some hard choices will have to be taken.
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The final will take place at the University Insitute for Architecture of Venice (IUAV) on the 2nd of October. Details will follow.

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Besides the Archimede Award, the jury will assign the Special Award Sebastiano Izzo and many other Awards such as:
• Winning Moves Special Trophy, for the best family strategic game. The winner game will be exposed at the Winning Moves stand, during the fair of Essen 2010.
• Carta Mundi Special Trophy for the best card game: the prize consists in 1000 copies made by Carta Mundi for free. The game must be composed by one or two decks of cards only and it will be produced with its rules and its case. The graphics will be realized for free by the ScriBabs, that published the winner game of the previous year.
• IDG Special Trophy, for the best game created entirely by a beginner inventor (an author that never published one of his own games).
The winner of the prize will receive a plate, the free participation (participation fee and trip to get there) to the next IDeAG in the city of Torino, and a little collection of board games made by the authors of the IDG “area”.

All the finalists will receive many games offered by the publishers that sponsor the prize, and materials for the creation of new prototypes kindly offered from Spiel-material.de.