Thank-you from Game-itoba 2025
We have so many people to thank for making this event such a resounding success, first and foremost all of our attendees and game-masters, you are the reason we do this!
Check out the 2025 event gallery over on Facebook. You can also review the 2025 Schedule (a game-itoba record-breaking 385 games, 228 [nearly 60%] of them full) and contents of the 2025 Library (all 644 Games).
A massive thank-you to our Marquee vendors. Without them our event simply would not be possible.

ÎLO – a leading figure for over 29 years in the Canadian toy and game industry, ÎLO is a Quebec-based distribution company founded in Montreal. ÎLO distributes a wide range of products, from toys to board games for all ages.
ÎLO, it’s the joy of playing together.

A Muse N Games – is your friendly local game store specializing in card games, role playing games and board games as well as locally made fantastic creations. We share our love of tabletop gaming by providing an exceptional retail experience and a welcoming place for people to share their hobbies with others through organized play.

Game Knight Games and Cool Stuff – Winnipeg’s source for all your tabletop gaming needs. Featuring the city’s largest selection of board games, we have a huge gaming capable of holding more than 50 people, plus additional smaller more intimate rooms. We rent board games, have a huge selection of used games, and an amazing selection of miniatures paints and supplies. Some of the brands we carry include: Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Magic the Gathering, WarHammer, Pokemon, Chessex Dice, Wizkids and Reaper miniatures, and too many board game titles to mention!

McNally Robinson – an independent bookseller with excellent board game and RPG section, committed to the values of community bookselling, and determined to present an alternative to corporate-chain bookstores.

Victory Pints – is here to quench your thirst for board games. We strive to have the best variety of board games in stock, and we are happy to order in anything you are looking for. Our shop is conveniently located less than 5 minutes away from the convention, down Henderson at the corner of Hespleler Ave. Come check it out!
Paint and Take Support

We would also like to extend our appreciation to The Army Painter who have very graciously donated paints, brushes and supplies for our paint & take table. If you have ever wanted to dip your toe into painting the lovely miniatures in your board games the speedpaint range is a great way to shade and highlight in just one coat.
Tournaments, Play to Win! & Donations
We would also like to extend our thanks to the following people, groups and organization for contributing prizes for our draws, play to win and tournament events:
- The Game-iToba convention committee (you know who you are ;))
- A Muse N Games
- Across the Board
- Chip Theory Games
- Evil Genius Games
- Hoovers Cards
- ILO
- And many of our local designers (C.J.R.R. Penner Productions, Elite Adventures, Glass Jar Games, GMB Chomichuk, Q4ia, Trapped Chest)
Other Vendors, Sponsors & Partners
- @scorpiusoka7
- Blacks Sideshow
- Compose Dreams Games
- Firby Creations
- Interlake 3D Printing
- Karasunest
- Manitoba Tabletop Designers Group
- Manitoba Pathfinder & Starfinder Lodge
- This event is supported by WinSFA
The Games Library
So many members of our community offer up their games for others to enjoy. A special thank-you to A Muse N Games, Game Knight Games and Cool Stuff and Victory Pints who allowed us to offer over 625 games to loan from our library (check out the full list here).
Schedule
You can view archived versions of the 2025 Schedule at the link.
We would like to say a special thank-you to our Marquee Sponsors, without their generous support Game-itoba would not be possible. Marquee Sponsors provide both financial and prize support to the convention, please stop by and say thanks to them.
Vendors
- A Muse N Games – One of our Marquee Sponsors will have a range of tabletop gaming products available for sale.
- Blacks Sideshow – Black’s Sideshow provides visual entertainment for fandom fans, geeks and fine furry folks who delight in the unexpected humour of life. Art, comics and Other Oddities. Ask about our custom commissions!
- Compose Dreams Games – Publisher of Simple Superheroes and the Unleashed Engine and purveyor of our multi-publisher Canadian RPG Marketplace.
- Firby Creations – Handmade crafts inspired by the Epic Fantasy and Steampunk genres, and a love of tabletop games. Leather pouches, dice trays, resin dice, notebooks, foamcraft terrain pieces to name just a few.
- Game Knight Games and Cool Stuff – One of our Marquee Sponsors will have a range of tabletop gaming products available for sale.
- Interlake 3D Printing – I sell highly detailed 3d printed miniatures for play or display as people see fit.
- Karasunest – Handmade resin pieces, mainly resin dice. Bringing the love of fandoms into handmade resin pieces of art!
- Manitoba Tabletop Designers Group – The Manitoba Tabletop Designers Group is a community of game designers ranging from TTRPG to board and card games! We showcase local talent and local products created right here in Manitoba. Come check out our booth and support some local talent and join the group if you have ever wanted to create a game or rpg yourself!
- McNally Robinson – One of our Marquee Sponsors will have a range of tabletop gaming products available for sale focusing on RPGs and RPG accessories.
- Victory Pints – One of our Marquee Sponsors will have a range of tabletop gaming products available for sale.
Local Designers
As always we are excited to support the local tabletop games design community, expect to see these designers out on the game floor demonstrating, promoting and selling their games.
- C.J.R.R. Penner Productions – Christopher J.R.R. Penner is a local Winnipeg RPG game designer and story-writer. With over a decade of Game Master experience, he has created the Arcane Dominion Table-top Role Playing Game to expand on the concept of character development and stat progression through role play and in-game time. Check out their work and see how you can bring new customizations, firearms, and fantasy to your table!
- BlueCat-Games – Our specialty is Medium to heavy Euro games that are fun, thematic and engaging! The Dealership is our first design, soon to be on crowdfunding! Quick snappy turns will make you come back to this Euro-style board game about competing independent car dealerships, fighting to secure a lucrative partnership!
- Board Games by Pen – I created Dice Baseball back in 1979. So, to see it now come alive and with so many people loving it and smiling during game play, it just brings warmth to my heart. You choose the Pitch / Outcome and I’ll roll the Dice…now let’s see what happens next.
- Clomy Games – Ryan started his game design work making low budget sarcastic board games that parody elements from real life such as procrastinating at a university, running a food court restaurant mired in geopolitics, or being socially uncomfortable at an Awkward Party. More recently, he has explored his love of simple story-driven lite RPGs and speculative fiction with a dose of whimsical realism, to develop the card-based modern fantasy RPG Magic, Myth, and Mystery.
- DM Lytha is a Manitoba-based professional Dungeon Master, Marketplace Manager and top content creator from Elite Adventures. Elite Adventures a group that is passionate about D&D and providing high quality games for players online, and in person, all across the globe!
- Glass Jar Games – Whether it’s facing a friend head-to-head or bringing a party to the next level, we’ve got games for you.
- GMB Chomichuk an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in comics, graphic novels, books, role-playing games, film, television and theatre. They will be the games room running Danger in the Details games all weekend.
- HEARTH is a D20 Heroic Fantasy TTRPG system focused on the three core pillars of game play: Combat, Exploration, and Social. You can expect to delve dungeons, slay dragons, and confront corrupt monarchs all while weaving a collaborative story with your friends.
- Kinson Key Games Dennis Northcott is a game designer from Winnipeg who enjoys games of all types; but he especially loves heavy strategic games. He is one of the owners of a new game publisher: Kinson Key Games. Kinson Key Games is an indie board game publisher, aiming to design and publish theme-forward games that live in the medium-heavy complexity range.
- Q4ia is a company focused on creating fun, memorable experiences for people of all ages through our family-friendly card, dice and roll & write games! Come check out our easy to learn games and favorites from other popular publishers throughout the weekend.
- Trapped Chest – Trapped Chest is a tabletop games developer/publisher, based out of Dauphin that is run by Jed Doerksen, that makes everything from small abstract games, large table consuming products and tabletop RPGs. Our design philosophy sometimes focuses on brutal efficiency (such as putting an entire RPG on a business card), while other projects may try to find that perfect space between unique and familiar. Our company motto is “Everybody gets to play”, and we realize that often the greatest accessibility issue is poverty, so one of our policies is that the digital (PDF/PNP) versions of our games are always free.
Special Thanks!
Our special thanks to ILO who as well as sponsoring the event have graciously provided multiple “Play to Win” and Tournament events at Game-itoba 2025.

- Challenge Events (winner at the table takes the game home)
- Rolln’ Bump on Saturday 10:30-11:25 am
- Sea Salt & Paper on Sunday 1:30-2:25 pm
- Play to Win (play the game at some point over the weekend & enter a draw to win on Sunday)
- After Us
- Pixies
- Boreal
- Cafe
- Knarr
- Faraway
- Sushi Dice
- Asian Tigers
- Odin
- Refuge
- Celtae

Our thanks to Chip Theory Games for raffle prizing and donations to our library.
And last, but very much not least, our ongoing thanks to scorpiusoka7 who not only designed our fabulous logo but a lot of the graphics and layouts we use.