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Game Designers' Workshop

Game Designers' Workshop is a tabletop role-playing game publisher at Normal and United States. It was established in 1973. It ceased in 1996.

Also recorded as GDW; Game Designers Workshop; GDW Games.

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Identity

What the record establishes about Game Designers' Workshop.

Game design workshop : a playcentric approach to creating innovative games / Tracy Fullerton ; with Christopher Swain and Steven S. Hoffman. is dated [2008] and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 5 objects associated with this heading. Game Designers' Workshop is associated with United States. Game Designers' Workshop is recorded from 1973.

The identifiers under which Game Designers' Workshop may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Game Designers' Workshop is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q1054486.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Further recorded particulars

Constitution and standing. It is classified as tabletop role-playing game publisher and board game publishing company.

Its recorded field of business is board wargame.

In public collections. Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature. 1 scholarly publication naming this subject was located in the registry of record.

From Users to Designers: An In‐Service Teacher Workshop for Mobile Game‐Based Learning Experiences, 2026.

Chronology

  1. 1973Game Designers' Workshop established.
  2. 1973Game Designers' Workshop is recorded from 1973.
  3. 19782T records: 2T215-2T231 (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1980Heart N Soul archive (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1996Game Designers' Workshop ceased.
  6. 1998Corporate photography shoots C0006179 - C0007933 (Wellcome Collection).
  7. 2008Game design workshop : a playcentric approach to creating innovative games / Tracy Fullerton ; with Christopher Swain and Steven S. Hoffman. (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 2008Game design workshop : a playcentric approach to creating innovative games / Tracy Fullerton ; with Christopher Swain and Steven S. Hoffman. is dated [2008] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 2011Reactions : the private life of atoms / by Peter Atkins. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

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  1. 1.

    From Users to Designers: An In‐Service Teacher Workshop for Mobile Game‐Based Learning Experiences, 2026

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Internet Archive, 32 digitised items catalogued under Game Designers' Workshop as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 5 works naming Game Designers' Workshop.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1054486: Game Designers' Workshop

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  5. 5.

    “Game Designers' Workshop”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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