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Official Alley Cat Games Submission page

 

For the best chance of successfully submitting your game to us, please read this detailed description BEFORE filling in the form below.

 

Game Lines

Each of our games must fit into one of our existing game lines. We are always looking to expand these lines, and welcome submissions that fit into the categories. We are especially interested in games for the tin and advanced lines. Our game lines are:

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  • Tin Games: Small, simple fun. Our Tin games are designed to be portable, be explained in 3 simple sentences, and include some major tactile or dexterity element. Our best examples of this line are Tinderblox and Kittin.

  • Party Games: Fun for the whole family and mass market, designed to make people laugh without putting too much pressure on players. We don't want anything that puts people on the spot to perform, or requires negotation, social deduction, or hidden roles. Great examples of party games are Phantom Ink and Sketchy Art.

  • Essentials Games: Our Essentials line includes light strategy games (2-3 on BGG weight) with novel themes. These games should be Gateway or Gateway + games that appeal to our core audience. Most of the games we already have fit into this line, so any new additions need to be really outstanding. Happy Home and Timber Town are good examples of this line.

  • Advanced Games: Brain-burning strategy games lasting several hours for hobby players. Autobahn, Arborea, and Ada's Dream are all great examples of our Advanced line. We look for the following in these games:

    1. Low on luck

    2. A BGG weight of 3.5+

    3. A strong link between theme and mechanics

    4. Interwoven mechanisms that affect each other and don't feel separate to the rest of the game.

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Currently Looking For:

  • Mechanics:

    • Card-driven engine builders (medium-heavy)

  • Themes:

    • Historical figures

    • Civilisation

    • Anthropomorphic animals

 

The above are desirables in game submission, not essential. These sorts of games will catch our attention more than others.

Do NOT Submit:

  • Mechanics:

    • Negotiation, social deduction, or hidden roles

    • Area-control or battle-focussed games

    • War games

    • Mystery/puzzle games

    • Roll-and-moves and roll-and-writes,

    • Deckbuilders

    • Take-That-style mechanics

  • Themes:

    • Pirates

    • Water/Ocean/Sea

    • Political

    • Adult (e.g. Cards Against Humanity)

    • Abstract

    • Trivia

    • Sports

 

Games submitted with any of the above will not be consided by our internal teams. Additionally, future submissions from designers who ignore the criterea are less likely to be considered.

If you want your games to be considered, the following will help:

  • Ensure you links work, and are accessable to anyone with the link.

  • Send us sale sheets, not rulebooks. We will not read rulebooks.

  • Try to show some knowledge of the industry in your question answers.

  • Please take the time to answer all questions accurately.

  • We give special consideration to submissions that have a video attached—we will always watch an attached video.

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We reccommend filling out the form on a desktop computer, rather than mobile.

 

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Thanks for taking the time to submit your game!

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