Meeple Pis d’Or
This year, the Golden Meeple Pis competition is making its big comeback in the Protozone at BGF. Sixteen candidates are competing for the prestigious Meeple d’Or, awarded to the best prototype, chosen by public votes and a jury composed of professionals from the gaming world.
Discover our participants and the jury, who will have the challenging task of evaluating them!
Participants
Ayawa
Four shamans gather to connect with the beyond. The shamans open their minds, and strange dream creatures appear before them. The ritual can now begin.
Embruns
Embruns is the first trick-taking game with drafting. Players build their hand based on the end goal. The cards add twists, disrupting plans and energizing the game. A strategic and fun game!
Gifts & Grouches
Christmas is almost here! Buy gifts from the store and place them under your friends’ Christmas tree. The Grouch will try to ruin Christmas for everyone, but the Elves will lend a magical hand!
Gold Cave
Gold Cave is a competitive, fast-paced, and cheeky game. As a miner, you dig through a tunnel in search of gold. But you’re not alone, and every trick is allowed to slow down your rivals!
Jogarena
Jogarena is a combination, bluff, and pressure game where you lead a football team. To win, score the most goals, be effective in attack, solid in defense, and give your team a breather at the right moment.
Les Aventuriers Messagers
“Les Aventuriers Messagers” is a cooperative adventure deck-building card game where players take on the roles of couriers, delivering letters and parcels from one village to another.
Maîtres Enquêteurs
Two sides face off: the cunning Maître enquêteur will do everything to hide the truth, while the detectives must combine their wits to uncover the true assassin.
Moria
Say goodbye to deck-building standards. Moria is colorless and non-violent. Your survival depends on the number of cards in your hand. Play carefully or risk madness.
On the Nose
A wooden boy with a very long nose decides to better his life and his nose shrinks rapidly. The wood worms living in his nose see their house shrink rapidly, as a frenzied race for survival starts.
Papoulco
Papoulco is a fast-paced, fun game. Get rid of your cards by grabbing the dice that match your cards’ characteristics (color, animal, quantity). Be quick and attentive to avoid mistakes and drawing extra cards!
Quests of Drakana
“Quests of Drakana” is a cooperative, competitive, or solo adventure board game where each player must evolve their character to complete quests and defeat a final boss.
Saisons et Conquêtes
“Saisons et Conquêtes” is a tactical, drafting, and worker placement game. In an alternate past, become a great warrior, make wise choices, and develop within four seasons to accumulate victory points.
Square
Square is a streamlined, strategic, family-friendly, and interactive game. Stronger cards are auctioned each round. Players bid to improve their hand and score points.
Sumots
In Sumots, you play as a sumo wrestler in combat, aiming to push your opponent out of the dohyo. Each round, form a word with the available letters. Is your word the strongest? Push your opponent!
Sur écoute
“Sur écoute” is a team game where you guide each other through treasure hunts using word clues. You must be both bold and subtle because your opponents can hear everything.
Un Nouvel Horizon
In “Un Nouvel Horizon”, guide your clan to prosperity by settling exiles on unexplored shores. Beware of event cards: they can either enrich you or cause losses. Strategy and daring are your allies!
Jury
Elodie Clement
A board game designer since 2018, she specializes in children’s games with “La Maison des Souris” (Gigamic, 2020), “À tâtons” (Auzou, 2022), and “Et Puis Voilà!” (expected by the end of 2024 and co-published by Origames and Space Cow).
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Théo Rivière
Théo discovered games in 2002 with Magic: The Gathering, which marked his school years. In 2010, he worked at Labo de Merlin, a game store where Benjamin introduced him to modern board games and connected him with the Libellud team.
In 2013, Théo moved to Nancy to work for Iello and published Shinobi Wat-ahh! with Purple Brain. After a stint at Yoka by TSUME, he joined Repos Production as an editorial assistant in 2016. In 2018, he co-founded the KAEDAMA team with Antoine, Corentin, and Ludovic, and has since released around 90 games, often in collaboration.
Openfab-Gamelab
Openfab-Gamelab is an inclusive space for creation, exploration, and exchange around games in all their forms. Equipped with fablab machines (laser cutter, 3D printer, etc.), it also provides tools for prototyping games. This self-managed space allows game creators to enrich their projects through community exchanges. It also offers public game nights and meetings between game authors to discuss prototypes.
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Nice, Barthélémy Cabry is an artist and game creator, exploring games as a way to “make common ground.”
After studying film in Brussels, Navid O’Lari turned to interactive storytelling and escape games as an artistic and educational medium.
Vi Tacq
I am a game design teacher at Haute École de Bruxelles-Brabant and Haute École Albert Jacquard.
I am also active in research on media education applied to board games, ludopedagogy, and game design didactics. I also create games, both ludopedagogical and recreational. I won the Entertainment Award at the Festival Ludique International de Parthenay in 2019 with my game Gargouilles.
And now, I’m a juror for the BGF: looking forward to the tests!