Game Chef Explained

Game Chef was an annual American contest for role-playing game designers.

History

Jason Morningstar submitted The Shab-al-Hiri Roach to the Game Chef 2005 competition, where it was chosen as one of the "Inner Circle" - the group of the nine best games from that year's 28 entrants.^{[1] [2]}

Morningstar also wrote Durance for the Game Chef 2011 competition.^{[1] [3]}

With time it evolved into a marketing event which created "national" editions, where small groups of players (generally connected to publishing micro-companies) assigned prizes to friends or game companies for which they worked.^[4] Game Chef ended in 2020 due to the low interest demonstrated by the RPG community. Trials to revive it were unsuccessful for the same reason.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. 2014. 978-1-61317-087-8.
2. http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-shab-al-hiri-roach Game Chef entry
3. Web site: Alumni Report: Durance. April 2012.
4. Web site: Beakley . Paul . 2015-06-29 . Game Chef Talk . 2023-06-05 . The Indie Game Reading Club . en.
5. Web site: Game Chef 2023 . 2023-06-05 . itch.io . en.
6. Web site: CauliflowerHater . 2020-06-22 . What happened with the Game Chef competition? . 2023-06-05 . r/rpg.