PRESS
JUNE 21, 2011
After the great success of the 2010 edition, the notice of the Premio Archimede 2012 is already on-line! Premio Archimede is a biennial competition for unpublished games designed by non-professional authors.
This manifestation is the 12th edition and its primary goal is to allow the authors to develop their experience and to compare with others authors and with the professionals of the jury; we are also encouraged by the exceptional results of the last edition.
The authors are better and the number of the Prize’s games that are published, or are to be published, is always increasing!
Concerning the 2010 Edition, there are already 6 games currently under contract and about to be released are: Aquileia (2010), Builders of Egypt (2010), Cacao (2010), Castles (2010), Crazy race (2010), Drop Site (2010).
The 2012 edition in short
• The Prize will be dedicated to the great Alex Randolph, who was the president for the firsts 7 editions.
• The Prize will have the patronage of the J.P. Halvah Foundation , established by Randolph himself and presided by Herbert Feuerstein. The foundation will offer a contribution of €3.500 to the winners (to be spent within the 30 of April 2013) in the form of scholarships, stages, contribution for the publication, etc.
• The Prize will have the collaboration of the Musée Suisse du Jeu (Swiss Museum of Games) that will organize an exhibition with all the finalist games.
• The final ceremony will take place in 2012, September 29 in Venice (details to come in the next days).
• There will be 2 juries: one responsible of the first selection and one responsible of the final votation. The president is again the Dutch Niek Neuwahl.
• Besides the Archimede Prize, the jury will assign the Special Prize Sebastiano Izzo, the Carta Mundi Special Prize for the best card game and the Special Prize IDG for the best game entirely created by an author that never participated to the Premio Archimede and never published one of his games.
• 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 Spielmaterial.de.
• The official Magazine of the event is Focus Brain Trainer.