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WELCOME TO BRIEFS!
Briefs is a micro game publishing series curated by Georg Hobmeier and Evgeni Puzankov. Since 2022, gold extra has awarded annual grants for games – as small as a mustard seed – every year on a new topic: It's about the quick, good idea, the game brainstorm, or small game essay that opens the world of triple AAA games and mobile games tailored to the target group urgently needed.
Previous themes were: The Absurd (2022), Pigs! (2023), Death (2024), and Cheese (2025)
Winners 2025
🧀 Medienzentrale with the game: "I made a game for you"
🧀 Phoebii with the game: "Phoebii's Preserve (The road to a Neohuman’s heart is paved with... cheese?)"
🧀 Kate Bagenzo with the game: "baetyl"
Get your BRIEFS Cheese bundle on itch.io
Winners 2024
☠️ Fantastic Humans with the game: Fantastic Annihilation
☠️ Dobra Studios with the game: Ojancanu
☠️ Soph Podestá with the game: A Pearl on the Road
☠️ Studio Lichene with the game: Death to Venice
Get your BRIEFS Death bundle on itch.io
Winners 2023
🐷 Spiders with the game: Xenograft
🐷 Hatimb with the game: Eid
🐷 Cuatro Assets with the game: Cuando vuelen (When they fly)
Get your BRIEFS Pigs bundle on itch.io
Winners 2022
🦏 Yeris with the game: Buildingo: The city builder of a working man
🦏 Damien Crawford with the game: Have-Nots Unforgiving
🦏 Max Robins with the game: Mondays: a Sisyphean Typing Game
🦏 Laughing Pineapple with the game: This is a black parallelepipedon in a yellow field
🦏 Stuffed Wombat with the game: Mosa Lina
🦏 All Worms with the game: Duck Date
Get your BRIEFS Absurd bundle on itch.io
BASIC SPECS
We’re looking for games that are made fast – not necessarily games that can be played fast.
We recommend spending no more than 40 hours in total on development.
- We are looking for a digital game playable on a Windows PC. Other platforms and operating systems are also possible.
- We do not accept analog or board games.
When submitting, the game should be free of serious bugs that make playing difficult or impossible.
WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR...
CHEESE (2025)
Cheese. Milk gone bad the right way. Domestic microorganisms give it to us in exchange for sweet sweet milk. Stinky, soft, hard, petrified, the more extreme the more adored it becomes. Donkey, rhino, pigeon, seal, human, caterpillar the rarest the bestest. What a wonderful substance our ancestors invented!
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Play the 2025 winning games here
DEATH (2024)
2024 the theme is DEATH.Video games and DEATH have always been tightly bound, violence is a dominant way of interaction after all. Many developers dont include DEATH as a design choice, its just one of our traditions. This year we want you to consider DEATH as a design choice narratively, mechanically, artistically, and politically.
Play the 2024 winning games here
PIGS! (2023)
In 2023 BRIEFS evolved around PIGS. What do you think about when you hear PIGS? Im sure youre going to start with cops (if you are American)or communists (if you are Russian). Maybe Ms. Piggy! What game can be viewed through the lens of PIGS, with protagonist PIGS, with villainous PIGS, with important PIGS? What game can be about PIGS?
Play the 2023 winning games here
THE ABSURD (2022)
The 2022 theme was ABSURD and yes, a rhino with yellow swimming briefs wearing an inside out shopping bag is considered absurd. Enjoy a literal Sisyphean typing game or enter the seventh dimension when encountering a long sinister cube thing. But dont despair (yet),it's not alldepressing and addressing the futility of life. The absurd part is also about making games wrong, ignoring the mainstream notions of how we should develop them.
Play the 2022 winning games here
FAQs
There are always questions – here we’ve collected and answered the most common ones: BRIEFS FAQs
