{"id":331,"date":"2023-05-17T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2023-06-20T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:09:46","slug":"voting-opens-for-germanys-biggest-board-gaming-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/voting-opens-for-germanys-biggest-board-gaming-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting opens for Germany&#8217;s biggest board gaming award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Voting is open for the Deutscher Spiele Preis, Germany&#8217;s biggest board gaming award, with winners set to be announced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiel-messe.com\/en\/\">Essen Game Fair<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards have been running since 1990, when Catan designer Klaus Teuber&#8217;s Hoity Toity came away with the inaugural prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runaway success <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/342942\/ark-nova\">Ark Nova<\/a> triumphed in last year&#8217;s awards, with <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/354886\/quacks-co-quedlinburg-dash\">Quacks and Co: Quedlinburg Dash<\/a> winning the best children&#8217;s game prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While nominally a &#8216;family games&#8217; award, the winning games have varied heavily in complexity and play time over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent previous winners have included The Lost Ruins of Arnak, The Crew, Wingspan, Azul, Terraforming Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ark Nova is the most complex game to win the award since Mombasa in 2016, according to &#8216;game weight&#8217; ratings compiled on BoardGameGeek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting is open for games that were published in German between May 1 2022 and April 30 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible contenders for this year&#8217;s prize include Earth from Inside Up Games, Heat: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder and Dune: Imperium from Dire Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Votes are only counted from people who live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the voting process set to close on August 15. Anyone eligible can vote here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiel-essen.de\/de\/dsp\">https:\/\/www.spiel-essen.de\/de\/dsp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BoardGameWire\/about\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">Help keep BoardGameWire producing high-quality news and features focused on the business of board games &#8211; Click here to join our Patreon community<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is open for the Deutsche Spiele Preis, Germany&#8217;s biggest board gaming award, with winners set to be announced at the Essen Game Fair in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17,111,115,113,114],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-awards","tag-deutsche-spiele-preis","tag-essen","tag-germany","tag-spiel-messe"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}