BGDF.com will be inaccessible. Our Hosting Company is moving all of their servers to a BRAND NEW state-of-the-art facility. As such the server on which we are hosted is scheduled to be moved on t...
Hello Everyone, I just wanted to inform you that there may be some Google Ads that show-up which are NOT the usual "reserved area" on the Right-Hand Side. These are what Google calls "Experimen...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/announcements-press-releases/site-ads-and-google-experiments
A fair warning, the website seems to have some 500 - Internal Server Error and 403 - Forbidden errors when using the website. I'm not a PRO at Drupal so I asked the previous Technical Admin to ta...
Please be aware that as of today around 5:00 PM EST, I've found that the website has been behaving rather BADLY. I don't know if this is a "Denial of Service" type of attack ... But it looks li...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/announcements-press-releases/dos-or-too-much-invalid-traffic
To anyone trying to REGISTER for an account over here at BGDF.com ... I was SCAMMED on the 6 September 2022 by an e-mail that seemed to be from my HOSTING company. It all seemed LEGIT and the ONL...
I just wanted to take a moment to mention WHY(?) BGDF.com has been down for about 1 hour twice in the last month. It seems like an AddHandler in the .HTACCESS file was modified for PHP 7.2. I was...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/announcements-press-releases/future-bgdfcom
What are your thoughts about this? Reviving the "Reviewers Section" would be pretty simple to do... It could follow some simple moderation rules and anyone who would want to share a "Gaming Exper...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/water-cooler/lets-revive-reviewers-section
Published game designer? Show that BGDF has street-cred in the design world! ENTER YOUR PUBLISHED GAME HERE! VIEW THE BGDF DESIGNERS' LIST HERE!
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/welcome-bgdf/bgdf-published-designers-database
Hello all, There is a massive security update for drupal important enough for them to issue a patch for drupal 6.x (which is what BGDF is built on). The site is being updated and will be down ...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/general/website-support/bgdf-site-update-announcement
It's time for the first major change to the GDS. Read up on the new, longer, format here http://www.bgdf.com/annual-game-design-showdown The gist is that the GDS will span a whole year - wit...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-2017-party-its-2999
WE HAVE A WINNER! ROYAL PROGRESS by gilamonster Let's give these designers some feedback in the critiques thread for taking the time out of convention season to keep the contest alive. ENT...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-august-2016-go-go-gadget-gencon
WE HAVE A WINNER! COURIER NOW by A Round Tuit Only a few entries this round. Summer is getting the better of us! Timers are difficult to use creatively, so let's see what everyone came up wit...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-july-2016-times
ENTRIES ARE IN Another small field this month with 3 strong entires. So again, in lieu of a formalised vote we'll go right to the comments and critiques. When you critique, list the entries in...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-june-2016-its-tourney-time
ENTRIES ARE IN This was a tough one! Only a few entries this month, so we're going to actually forgo the standard voting process and just get to the critiques. The entries are still posted below...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-may-2016-human-scale-games
WE HAVE A WINNER! THE FINAL VOYAGE OF THE JELLY ROGER by ConMan Full results and discussion will be found in the critiques forum . Thank you once again to all our designers and readers! ENT...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-april-2016-co-op-more-co-opted
WE HAVE A WINNER! MINE by billarama Quite a challenge, but our designers stepped outside the ballot box to meet it! Thank you to everyone who submitted games and took the time to read them! N...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-march-2016-super-vote-tron-2016
WE HAVE A WINNER! FRONTRUNNER by billarama Massive participation this month! Let's go talk about it! Final point totals are posted in the critiques thread. ENTRIES ARE IN! Plenty of entri...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-february-2016-circle-now-complete
WE HAVE A WINNER! The votes showed a clear top three entries this month. The top winner is: THE KING'S GOLD by Elkobold 3...2...1...SHOWTIME! by Andymakespasta in second place MIRRORS b...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-january-2016-stronger-together
WE HAVE A WINNER! EVIL CULTS FOR DUMMIES Congratulations to andymakespasta! With only four entries this month, we've got some leeway to dig into the mechanics and see what works and what does...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-december-2015-learning-game
WE HAVE A WINNER! TITHE by markgrafn Not many entries this month, but a record number of comparative votes. An intriguing challenge with some very nice components made this one extra tough. J...
https://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-design/game-design-showdown/gds-november-2015-heirloom-quality