Unpub 8 F.A.Q. - UPDATED
When can I buy tickets? Tickets for all play tester levels are still available! Don't miss out! Can I get into Unpub to play games without a ticket? A walk-in playtest? All are welcome starting on Friday, March 23rd at 3pm, and continuing on Saturday March 24th, from 10am to 7pm, and on Sunday March […]
Unpub 8 VIP
Unpub is very pleased to announce that Unpub 8's VIP Guest will be Matt Leacock! Matt Leacock is a board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert. His latest releases are Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 and Mole Rats in Space. If you have […]
Unpub at Origins Game Fair
Good Morning Fellow Gamers! As many of you are aware, we here at Unpub are busy preparing for our next ProtoAlley at Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio! We’ve been a guerrilla feature at this convention for several years, and this year thanks to our awesome sponsor Renegade Games, we’ll be there in an official capacity! […]
Unpub 7
March 17-19, 2017, we will host our seventh annual Unpublished Games Festival (Unpub 7) at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Unpub 7 was attended by over 1,400 people and Unpub 7 is expected to nearly double this number. With over 120 game designers, a special guest (TBA), more vendors, and more play testers […]
Unpub returns to BGG Con 2016
Unpub will be taking over the BGG Con ProtoAlley for the third year! Come join us, in room 1106 on Thursday (November 17), Friday (November 18) and Saturday (November 19) from Noon to 7pm each day, to play test the games of tomorrow. We will have special guests, special games, and a few surprises- so don't miss […]
Hasbro’s Fall 2016 Challenge
Hasbro Gaming Lab’s mission is to discover and develop great new games, connect with the growing gaming community, and bring fresh experiences to gamers everywhere. Hasbro’s Fall 2016 Challenge to find the next great family game is open until October 23rd 2016 at 11:59PM EST. Hasbro will give five finalists $2,000 each to develop […]
Board Game Licensing Contracts
Finding a publisher for your design can be hard, and knowing a fair contract when you're offered one can be even harder. Over this past year, we've been releasing reports about board game licensing contracts at cardboardedison.com, based on an industry survey we ran. The final series of six infographics--included below--reveals the industry's standard terms, where […]
PAX East 2015
Unpub is back at PAX East 2015 in beautiful (and cold) Boston, Massachusetts! Unpub will be located in the Table Top area at booth #C601! We have 7 tables available for the convention and will be splitting those up into 4 hour slots. So if you would like to come and participate as a designer, sign […]
Unpub 5
So, another post about Unpub 5? More tricks? More mind games? No. No more teases, no more tricks, just the facts. Unpub 5's location, date, and more is now finalized. While we continue to work on the schedule, here is the information you have been begging to have since Unpub 4. WHERE & WHEN Unpub […]
Understanding the Feedback Form
You may have noticed something new showing up on some Kickstarter pages lately--a box with 7 circles ranging from 1-5, with the Unpub logo nearby. In fact they probably mostly range from 4-5. These same circles also show up on some Unpub.net game pages (when enabled by the creator) and on feedback pages in the […]