Melbourne Meeples
Melbourne’s biggest community-run board gaming organisation, providing opportunities to its members and the broader community to discover, play and experience board games since 2014.
About Us
Melbourne Meeples Inc. is an Australian not for profit incorporated association dedicated to providing opportunities to its members and to the general community to play and experience a range of board games.
During the year, Melbourne Meeples Inc. present:
- Regular board game events such as NSEG, Board in the East, Board in West, and more.
- Semi-regular female focused social game days as The Devonshire Society
- Annual conventions such as Meeplecon and OzBunnyCon
- Special events such as Melbourne Board Game Market
Become a Member
Melbourne Meeples Incorporated was incorporated in 2014 and is still going strong.
Why not consider becoming a member!
Free Entry to Regular Game Days
Access to Games Library
Voting rights at Melbourne Meeples AGM
Discounts at Partner Retailers
Discount at Cons and more Events
Choose Games for Library
MELBOURNE MEEPLES EVENT CALENDAR
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Every Second Sunday, we gather in The Croxton’s bistro to play some boardgames
DEvonshire Society
Monthly boardgames event focused at women and non-binaries.
Board in the west
Every First Friday, join us at Point Cook’s Community Centre to play board games
Board in the East
Every Second Friday, join us at Amaroo Community Centre to play board games
board to death
Every Third Thursday, Join us for some games in Coburg
Games after dark
Every Fourth Friday, we meet at Watsonia Library to play board games
MEEPLECON
Melbourne’s Biggest Boardgaming Convention.
A weekend of boardgames, tournaments, demos and more.
A weekend of boardgames, tournaments, demos and more.
OZBUNNycon
Our Annual Easter Boardgaming Convention.
Just board games over Easter Long Weekend .
Just board games over Easter Long Weekend .
Melbourne Board Game market
An annual event connecting boardgaming community – designers, publishers, and more.
Melbourne Meeples Library: Pandemic: The Cure
We've added a new game to our ever expanding library! The latest game to be added is Pandemic: The Cure.
Pandemic The Cure takes the concept of Pandemic (grabbing a bunch of your friends and trying to save the world from four diseases) and speeds it up and makes it slightly more random by using dice instead of cubes.
Spiel des Jahres awards
We're a little late to the party, but the announcements for the Spiel des Jahres came out a while ago and there's some great Australian news wrapped up in it.
For those that don't know, the Spiel des Jahres (which translates to Game of the Year, but we'll call SdJ from here on in) is an award given to the best game of the last year that was released in Germany as decided by the German gaming press. Boardgame reviews appear in lots of print mediums in Germany somewhat like movie reviews appear here in the press.
There's actually three awards, the SdJ (which tends to focus on family games), the Kennerspiel des Jahres (the game for those in the know... or the more complicated game) and the Kinderspiel des Jahres (the game of the year for kids). The winner for the Kinderspiel has been announced already, but the Kennerspiel and SdJ get announced on July 6.
Because of the 'released in Germany' in the last year, you get odd nominations and recommendations for games that have been out elsewhere in the world, such as this year, Machi Koro which was originally published in 2012 in Japan, but has taken a while to get translated to German.
So the two games which we're excited about in our jingoistic way are
Click on the link below to take a look at the other nominees and recommendations!
Melbourne Gaming Calendar - July 2015
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