Weird Market turns 14 years old. From its 12th edition on, Weird Market is much more than animation, video games and new media, including new sectors such as board games or comics. That is why it becomes WEIRD MARKET, a new name that welcomes great ideas and IPs regardless of their origin.

Weird Market organizes the 14th edition of the Weird International Animation, Video Games and New Media Market inValencia, Spain, from September 27th to October 2nd 2022. The objective of the meeting is to create collaborations between distributors, producers, TV channels, Programmers, video game developers, students and animation directors, international and national.

Weird Market dedicates this call to new board games projects that want to make themselves known in their different stages of production: in pre-production, in production or finished.

From the projects received a selection that will be published in the catalogue of Weird Market will be made, in order to promote and assist the distribution of the European board games industry. Special attention will be given to innovative projects. 

From this selection of projects, which will be reflected in the publication, one or more projects will be extracted and presented during the market by their creators.

The publication is distributed online and reaches more than 7,000 professionals each year. The purpose of the publication is to make known in these events the excellent Portuguese-Spanish production of animation and video games and to be able to put in contact its creators with distributors, buyers and co-producers.

2.1. The selection of board games projects of the market is open to all kinds of European projects, in their different states of production, understood by these: pre-production, production or finished.

2.2. All formats are accepted: dice games, tile games, card games, role playing games, and board games.

2.3. Prototypes with electronic circuits, solitary games or computer games are not accepted. Reissues of games that do not present a major change in the new edition will also not be allowed.

2.4. Each project can only be registered in a single category and in a single state of production, it cannot be repeated in the next edition of the market. Transmedia projects should fill the appropriated form.

2.5. The maximum number of participating projects per company/creator will be three titles.

2.6. Only projects of producers or studies registered in European territory will be valid. 

2.7. There is no entry fee.

2.8. It is not necessary to have a production company in order to apply.

2.9. There is a right of admission to works that offend people’s sensibilities, incite violent or discriminatory behaviour or are contrary to social customs.

2.10. The deadline for registration and submission of materials is July 15th, 2022.

3.1. The following are the materials that will be needed to complete the registration. The sending of this documentation is obligatory to formalize the request:

• Video, 5 minutes maximum, showing the prototype, explaining the operation or a game.
• Game regulation, of no more than 5 pages, that includes the following information:

– Name of the game

– Number of players

– Description of a game turn

– Approximate duration of the game

– Game materials

– Rules

– Minimum age to play

• Digital file of the cover of the game with the corresponding name in png and two horizontal images in high quality, clean (without logos or titles).
• Brief history of the creator or creators.
• Mainly games that have a Print and Play of the game will be selected. The shipping address is Calle Batalla del Salado, 3 – Escalera B 6B. 28045 Madrid (Spain).

3.2. Sending extra material that helps to know better the project will be positively valued.

3.3 Reference images may be included in the dossier, but in no case may the 2 representative images be reference images.

3.4. All materials should be sent to: weird@weirdmarket.es. All documentation must be sent in a single email, preferably in a single link.

4.1. The selection committee will be formed by professionals from the sector

4.2. The selected works will appear with their information sheet and contact information in the Weird Market catalogue.

4.3. Producers or authors must ensure that they are in legal possession of the project rights.

4.4. The material of each of the selected titles may be available to professionals accredited in digital format, unless the creators indicate otherwise.

5.1. An accreditation will only be granted to those projects that are selected to be presented by their authors.

5.2. All professionals who need more information or wish to go to the Weird Market 2022 can contact us at: weird@weirdmarket.es

6.1. The selected projects will be published on the website  www.weirdmarket.es in September 2022.

6.2. To the projects selected to be presented during the market by their creators, the organization will provide transport, accommodation and meals for a representative.

7.1. Different recognitions may be awarded, which we will announce by press release.

8.1. Participation in the call for projects, with the sending of materials and the registration made, implies the full acceptance of these regulations.

8.2. The person signing the work must have the necessary rights on the work to present it.

8.3. Weird Market doesn’t reserve any ownership of the work, except for publication in the catalog.

8.4. The registration form must be completed in order to participate in the call.