the Games Manufacturer AssociationKnown as GAMA, this year returns with a list of industry and events facing the consumer, including Gamma Gallery That took place last month in Luisville, Kentucky, the occasion represents the fiftieth anniversary of the commercial exhibition, as well as the forty -eighth anniversary of the desirable GAMA Origins Awards, which are granted every year in Gama Oriigins in June. The program, which the peers reviewed this year, is directed by a member of GAMA Alex SchmidtStoneemaier Games. Polygon can reveal exclusively from the final contestants this year, all of them through four main categories.
“We are the Association for Table Table Games,” explained by the CEO of John Stacy in a recent interview with Polygon. “Everything from the creator has an idea that it actually lands at a person’s table, everything along this value chain in which our members participate.”
For the Origeins Awards, games must be nominated by GAMA members, which include individual designers, YouTube men, influencing social media as well as publishers and distributors. However, the biggest recommendations of society are owners Independent games stores – FLGS local games stores in colloquial.
“It is a moving number, but there were approximately (4000) to 5,000 games in the United States (alone), but we have members of 36 countries (including China), and therefore they could be part of this process as well.”
“It is a very vital element in the hierarchical sequence in this field,” said Stacy. “You must have this direct contact for consumers. It sells a lot of publishers directly, but they do not have this type of personal contact, in your face that independent gaming stores possess, and therefore there is a great channel to get information about what the market really wants. Therefore, we really lie to them to help us make decisions about the place we go as a association, but also as an industry.”
The highest minds for Stacy and the Gama Council are the continuing exercises by the Trump administration for a new tariff on foreign goods, a tax that can be applied to many table products made abroad – including projects funded by group financing.
“I spent 17 years working in the state legislative body,” said Stacy. “I was pressure groups (…) before I reached work in Gamma. We are already working with an alliance that includes about 200 different non -profit associations, including the National Federation for sale, the Games Association, (and) other groups. We have passed and work to retreat against definitions for several years so far. We had a rest period during the last administration, but this new administration came out of the gates it received.”
This year’s candidates are organized in four categories: table games, miniature games, games that play roles, and the so -called “constructive games”, which Stacy said primarily to commercial cards, collection card and living card games. Candidates as follows:
Miniature paint/hobby supplement
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