Month: February 2025

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Various Happenings

New Logo

We have a new logo!

Thank you to everyone who contributed designs, ideas, and opinions. Some of you worked pretty hard on this! Ultimately we looked at logos for a lot of other brands and realized that we needed something that was simple but effective in a variety of contexts. That said, we’ve been thinking for years that we’d love to have Indy TTGC &/ Protospiel Indy tee shirts, and now we’ve got a great start on designs for that. Thank you all for your contributions to our community.

Upcoming Events

Indiana UXPA 2025 Kickoff and Game Day, this upcoming Saturday, February 22 – Play games and playtest your games with user experience designers, prototypes are welcome. (This is at Launch Fishers, the venue for Protospiel Indy 2025.)

Our next playtest session is planned for Saturday, March 15 at The Game Preserve North.

The first ever Protospiel Kansas City will be on April 04-06 – Carl is looking for carpool partners!

Who’s Yer Con, April 18-20 at Indianapolis Marriott East – Let Carl know if you are hosting an event!

Game Design Workshop at Indy Design Week – Saturday, April 26 – Contact Carl to demo / playtest your game!

Protospiel Indy 2025 – May 16-18 – Registration coming soon!

Playtest Log

Thanks to everyone who participated in last Saturday’s playtest session at The Game Preserve North! We had 12 attendees and we playtested at least 6 games!

  • Richard’s 230th of Briarcliff Oelno Derby
  • Di and Nick’s Cabbybara
  • Julia’s Toll the Dead
  • Carl K’s Telepathic
  • Scott’s Anti-Space
  • Carl S’s Tavern of Thieves

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event

February Playtesting

Hanna Seyerle's _My Indoor Garden_ from February 2024

Bring out yer prototypes!

(Or just show up to playtest!)

When: Saturday, Februray 15th, noon to 4pm ET. (Google Calendar)
Where: Game Preserve North at Fashion Mall Commons, 8487 Union Chapel Rd Suite #660
Who: Anyone who wants to help each other make great games.
How to spot us: We’ll be pushing around sleeved bits of paper, pencil-scrawled index cards, and random bits from other games.

Indy TableTop Game Creators (https://indyttgc.org/) focuses on board and card games, but we’re interested in all kinds of games. Beginners are welcome! Early hand-scribbled prototypes are encouraged!

Please add a comment below telling us about the prototypes you plan to bring for testing!

Save the dates

Game Design Workshop at Indy Design Week – Saturday, April 26 – Contact Carl to demo / playtest your game!

Protospiel Indy 2025 – May 16-18 – Registration coming soon!

Other upcoming events

Do you want to organize a playtest event? Let us know and we’ll announce it here! Better yet, join our Discord server and announce it yourself!

Check Protospiel.Events for Protospiel playtest events near you and online.

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discussion

Logo Redesign

We’re considering a redesign of our logo! Here are our considerations:

  1. The logo should convey themes related to Indianapolis / Indiana, tabletop games, and design.
  2. The logo must work well at the size of a computer icon (~50px square), or have a distinctive element that can be used at that size.
  3. The logo should have an option to include or be accompanied by the text “Indy TTGC” or “Indy TableTop Game Creators”. However, the ideal logo would be recognizable without such text.
  4. The logo should work equally well on a black or a white background.
  5. The colors of the logo support a rebranding of this web site to use a brighter color palette than the current royal blue and cranberry.
  6. The ideal logo could be rendered in black against white.

Below are a number of ideas for consideration. Several of these are just sketches, for purposes of ideation. We expect the final logo will contain elements from more than one of these ideas.

1. Indiana (Combines the state outline with the Indy city flag, adding some game and design elements)
2. Fade (A logo showing a transition from design to final rendering)
3. Table (Depicts game and design elements atop a block made from the word INDY)
4. Monument (A morphing of the Soldiers & Sailors Monument with a game pawn)
5. Victory (The Victory statue at the top of the S&S Monument as a meeple)
6. Grid (A variation on the Indy city flag, combined with game and design elements)
7. City (The Indy skyline with pawns and meeples, and a hand of cards showing the Indy city flag on the back)

In the comments, or in this Google Form, please share what you like &/ dislike about each of these ideas, as well as any suggestions to combine &/ improve them. Thank you!