The Dice Tower announced the winners of their Dice Tower Awards during GenCon.  Their Game of the Year award goes to Galactic Cruise, the breakout title by designers T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, and Koltin Thompson.  It’s the third significant victory for the game; earlier, it won the Golden Geek for best heavy game and was one of five games to win the Meeples Choice Awards.  It’s a tremendous success story, since prior to this, neither the designers nor the publisher were well known in the hobby.

A total of 10 titles received Game of the Year nominations.  Here they are, together with their designers and publishers.

***Galactic Cruise  (King, Northcott, Thompson) – Kinson Key Games***
Eternal Decks  (Hiroken) – Tricktakers Games
Hot Streak  (Jon Perry) – CMYK
LotR: Fate of the Fellowship  (Matt Leacock) – Z-Man Games
Luthier  (Dave Beck, Abe Burson) – Paverson Games
Speakeasy  (Vital Lacerda) – Eagle-Gryphon Games
Sweet Lands  (Totsuca Chuo) – uchibacoya
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era  (Josh Carlson) – Chip Theory Games
Vantage  (Jamey Stegmaier) – Stonemaier Games
Zenith  (Gregory Grard, Mathieu Roussel) – PlayPunk

Finally, here are the winners in the individual game categories.

Strategy Game:  Galactic Cruise
Welcoming Game:  Fliptoons (Jordy Adan, Renato Simoes)
Party Game:  Hot Streak
2-Player Game:  Tag Team (Corentin Lebrat, Gricha German)
Cooperative Game:  LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Trick Taker (Bryan Bornmueller)
Theming:  Luthier
Solo:  20 Strong: Tanglewoods (Logan Giannini)
Innovative:  Vantage
Reprint:  Magical Athlete (Richard Garfield, Takashi Ishida)
Artwork:  Critter Kitchen (Sandara Tang)
Production Values:  Luthier
Small Publisher:  Luthier
New Designer:  Galactic Cruise

Congratulations to all the winning games!