What is the “BGDG” and how long has it been around?
The group began in 2006 when Greg Jones, then manager of Game Night Games, began gathering contact information from various customers and other individuals who had expressed interest in designing games. The guild’s first meetings were informal once-a-month gatherings held after hours at Game Night beginning in January of 2007 with about 15 participants at the first meeting. Eventually the group decided on the name “The Board Game Designers Guild of Utah”, a charter was created, officers and panels were elected, the meetings moved from after hour gatherings to regular store events, a second monthly meeting was added, semi-annual business meetings were arranged to conduct group business, a private online discussion group was set up for the guild, an official logo by guild member Ryan Laukat was adopted, and the meetings became more formalized with prospective members needing to attend a certain number of meetings first before being able to officially join and get their games playtested a
