Thematic hub
The Game Designhub
For the people who make the games — authors, designers and publishers of facilitation games and the tools of the profession.
Forming
- Thematic hub
- Forming
17
hubs in formation
Open
Founding membership
2026
Founding cohort
A community of practice — forming as members join.
About this hub
What this hub is
Behind every great facilitated session is a designed artifact: a game someone authored, tested and produced. The authors and publishers of facilitation games are a profession within the profession — with their own craft questions, from mechanics and metaphor to production, licensing and distribution.
This hub is being formed as their professional home: a place where designers meet the facilitators who run their games, where playtesting is easy to organize, and where the practical knowledge of publishing in this niche market is shared rather than guarded.
The practice
What members will do
- Playtest new games with experienced facilitators and get honest feedback
- Share the craft: mechanics, metaphor design, debrief architecture
- Learn the business side — production, pricing, licensing, distribution
- Connect games with the facilitators and hubs that need them
- Help define attribution and licensing norms for the field
At a glance
- Type
- Thematic hub
- Status
- Forming now
- Founding membership
- Open
Other hubs
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Transformational Games
The launch wedge — for practitioners of transformational, metaphorical and self-discovery games.
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Business Games
Games for business education, strategy, negotiation and leadership.
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Educational Games
Educators, instructional designers and game-based learning professionals.
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It's free to apply, and founding members shape the hub from day one — the agenda, the standards, the community. Tell us this is your hub in your application.