{"id":29,"date":"2012-12-11T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swissgamersaward.ch\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:58:30","slug":"presentation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swissgamersaward.ch\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"texte\">\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">What is it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">At the initiative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ludesco.ch\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ludesco Game Festival<\/a>, Swiss gamers are invited every year since 2010 to nominate their favorite game. The vote is done through clubs, game and game and toy libraries and gaming associations in Switzerland. The Swiss Gamers Award represents the vote of the people who are best placed to judge the quality of a game: the players themselves! Since 2022, the Swiss Gamers Award has been awarded in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ludo.ch\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Federation of Toy Libraries<\/a> and, since 2023, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/museedujeu.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Game Museum<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Why another award?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">There are many prizes for the best game creations. However, after the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Schweizer Spielepreis<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> disappeared in 2006, there was no longer a prize that reflected the preferences of gamers based in Switzerland. The Swiss Gamers Awards was conceived with a philosophy that strongly distinguishes it from most other existing gaming awards. Its philosophy is based on fundamental Swiss values:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">The Swiss Gamers Award is not chosen by a small jury but by hundreds of gamers. It is awarded after a voting process involving the members of the clubs, game and toy libraries and gaming associations that have chosen to participate in the election. It is thus based on the idea of the big popular votes that Swiss citizens are used to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">The Swiss Gamers Award is an international prize, and therefore open to the outside world. Although the award is given by gamers living in Switzerland, all games published in the current year can be nominated, regardless of the nationality of their author(s) and publisher(s).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">The Swiss Gamers Awards reflects the diversity of Switzerland and its language regions. As the voters can vote for any new game (as long as it is a <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>new<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> game), it brings to light &#8211; in the list of games receiving points &#8211; many titles sometimes unknown in another region. But in the end, it rewards a game that has reached a consensus and therefore, one that can appeal to different cultures and gaming sensibilities. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>An overview of the rules<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The various game clubs, game and toy libraries and associations that have responded positively to the call of the Ludesco Game Festival are invited to draw up a ranking of their members\u2019 three favorite games. Each organization participating in the election is free to organize the consultation procedure of its members according to their own preferences. Points are awarded to each game nominated by an association (3 points for the first choice, 2 points for the second choice and 1 for the third). The votes are done at the end of the year. The announcement of the three games (\u00ab\u00a0the nominees\u00a0\u00bb) having obtained the highest total of points (the points attributed by each association are added up) and the winner of each category is revealed in February or March during a press conference. The prize (a Swiss bell) is awarded to the author(s) of the winning game during the Ludesco Festival in la Chaux-de-Fonds, usually taking place in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">The Swiss Gamers Award Family<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #373737;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Since 2018, gamers from Swiss clubs, toy libraries and associations are also invited to nominate the best new games specially designed to be played with children. The voting procedure is strictly identical to the one used for the general category.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>\u00a0The Swiss Gamers Award Expert<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Since 2025, experienced gamers, critics, and enthusiasts from Swiss clubs, game libraries, and gaming associations have also been invited to nominate the best new games offering strategic depth and complexity particularly suited to a knowledgeable audience. The voting procedure is exactly the same as that used for the general category.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? At the initiative of the Ludesco Game Festival, Swiss gamers are invited every year since 2010 to nominate their favorite game. 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