Information for Game editors and Game agencies

For you as game editors from publishing houses or game agencies, this creates a compact and exclusive meeting place in NCC Mitte of the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre for exchanging ideas with authors. Plan the International Game Inventors' Fair on the Friday of the fair for your game idea scouting and find new game ideas for your publishing programme.

Review of participants 

These game authors participated in 2025: game designer participant list (551 kB).
Overview of their prototypes presented: Prototype portraits (12 MB).

Many of the participants 2025 you can also find on Spielwarenmesse Digital for direct contact. Go to Leadfinders and search for GIC2025.

What you get out of your visit

  • The international meeting place of the Spielwarenmesse extends to the Game Inventors Convention. Game designers from 20 different countries took part to the 2025 edition.
  • In total, 150 game designers from 20 different countries presented their prototypes in 2025 edition.
  • Discover the innovators behind tomorrow’s board games in Nuremberg and expand your publishing program with them.

Plan your visit for the International Game Inventors' Convention today

Keep the Friday of the Spielwarenmesse free for the International Game Inventors' Fair: Add to calendar

Plan time for networking at the Gaming Hour on the Friday evening of the fair: Add to calendar

On 15 December we will publish the game designer portraits. Be reminded of the starting date for your appointment with the game designers: Add to calendar

Please note the admission regulations

The following persons are entitled to admission to the Game Inventors' Fair:

→ Game editors
→ Product managers
→ Game agencies
→ Game critics
→ Trade journalists
→ Bloggers

A business card must be handed in in addition to the exhibitor, press or blogger entry card.

The Game Inventors Convention will bring the brains behind the games together with publishing houses and journalists. Retailers and buyers are not an eligible visitor group.

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For new exhibitors

Claudia Herzog

Sales Manager

For returning exhibitors

Francesca Ercoli

Project Manager