Call for Participants at Games.con 2025
Novi Sad Fair | 19–21 December | The biggest gaming and pop culture festival in Serbia
#Games.con2025, the biggest homegrown festival of gaming, board games and pop culture in the region, is opening its official call for participants! If you want to be part of the program and showcase your work to thousands of visitors, now is the perfect time to apply.
This call is open to:
🎲 Tournament organizers in board and strategy games
🎨 Illustrators, artists and visual creatives
🧩 Board game promoters and demonstrators
📚 Authors, designers and publishers of board game titles
🧙 Dungeon Masters, Game Masters and the TTRPG community
🎤 Lecturers, panelists and expert speakers
🤝 Clubs and associations from the world of board games, fantasy and pop culture
✨ Volunteers interested in working at the biggest gaming and pop culture festival in Serbia
If you have a game, a tournament, a workshop, a talk or all of the above, Games.con 2025 gives you the ideal platform to present yourself to a wide audience.
And now a little about the history of the hobby
Board games have existed for thousands of years, from ancient Egyptian “Senet”, through “Go” in China, to classic chess. However, the development of modern tabletop games began in the late 20th century with so-called board games (boardgames) that introduced innovative mechanics, creative themes and strategic depth. Games such as “Catan”, “Carcassonne” and “Ticket to Ride” laid the foundations of today’s global board game scene.
In Serbia, the player base grows year after year, and Games.con has become the central meeting place for board game fans and local designers.
As for TTRPGs (Tabletop role-playing games), they emerged in the 1970s, with “Dungeons & Dragons (aka D&D/DnD)” becoming the pioneer and standard-bearer of the genre. TTRPGs combine storytelling, improvisation and rules, letting players create their own worlds and characters.
Besides D&D, a multitude of other TTRPG systems have developed over the last 30 years, such as:
“Call of Cthulhu”, “Pathfinder”, “Vampire: The Masquerade”, “Blades in the Dark”, “FATE” and loads of other titles.
In Serbia, the TTRPG community has taken off over the last 5-6 years, alongside the global popularity of YouTube TTRPG channels such as Critical Role. For the past ten or so years, Games.con has been bringing together designers, dungeon masters and players from all over the country in one place.
Why should you take part in #Games.con2025?
Because you get the chance to…
So, if you want to run a tournament, give a talk, present your board game, host a TTRPG session or contribute to the festival, apply for #Games.con2025 now!
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