PROTO EVENTS

"The Proto Tank event is exciting and offers huge rewards! It's an opportunity for up-and-coming designers to really strut their stuff"

– Monica, ProtoATL

Prototype Events at TantrumCon

Tantrum House loves helping game designers and creators find an audience for their creations! At TantrumCon each year we offer several venues for for designers to showcase their stuff, including:

The Pitch Workshop (Friday at 11 a.m.)
We invite industry pros to come teach and help designers learn the art of pitching their games (free!)
Camp Prototype (Friday and Saturday)
It's where designers can reserve a time slot to demo their games to attendees (it's free—register below).
The Proto Tank (Friday 3–5 p.m.)
The big show is free to attend and it's where designers present their games to a panel of industry judges and compete against one another for prizes, glory, and the chance at landing a publishing deal! ($25 registration fee—register below).

If you'd like to participate in any of our Proto Events keep reading and register below. We'll send you additional information soon.

RECOMMENDATIONS/EXPECTATIONS:

Games must have functioning pieces and must not be published. Advertising flyers, business cards, requests to join mailing lists, and prizes may be given handed out at the Camp Prototype table, but no sales or exchange of funds/goods.

We request that each designer create a sales sheet to put on the front table at Camp Prototype as well as to hand to judges if they are competing in the Proto Tank. This will allow players and publishers to get information about your game as well as your contact information for the future.

Consider contributing a game and/or gamer items for our raffle giveaway scheduled for 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Camp Prototype.

Also, be sure to advertise on social media that you will be showing your prototype at TantrumCon! (We will tell our publishers that you will be here, emailing a link to our prototype page for them to peruse before the event, plus we will send them the prototype schedule the week before the convention starts.)