Game Chef
{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game design contest}}
Game Chef was an annual American contest for role-playing game designers.
History
Jason Morningstar submitted The Shab-al-Hiri Roach to the Game Chef 2005 competition, where it was chosen as one of the "Inner Circle" - the group of the nine best games from that year's 28 entrants.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons: The '00s|publisher=Evil Hat Productions|year=2014| isbn=978-1-61317-087-8}}{{rp|290}}[http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-shab-al-hiri-roach Game Chef entry]
Morningstar also wrote Durance for the Game Chef 2011 competition.{{rp|304}}{{Cite web|url=http://gamechef.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/qa-durance|title=Alumni Report: Durance|date=April 2012}}
With time it evolved into a marketing event which created "national" editions, where small groups of players (generally connected to publishing micro-companies) assigned prizes to friends or game companies for which they worked.{{Cite web |last=Beakley |first=Paul |date=2015-06-29 |title=Game Chef Talk |url=https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/game-chef-talk/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=The Indie Game Reading Club |language=en}} Game Chef ended in 2020 due to the low interest demonstrated by the RPG community. Trials to revive it were unsuccessful for the same reason.{{Cite web |title=Game Chef 2023 |url=https://itch.io/jam/game-chef-2023 |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=itch.io |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=CauliflowerHater |date=2020-06-22 |title=What happened with the Game Chef competition? |url=http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/hdvy5c/what_happened_with_the_game_chef_competition/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=r/rpg}}