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 2026 event gallery over on Facebook. You can also review the 2026 Schedule (a total of 384 scheduled games, 194 of them absolutely full) and contents of the 2026 Library (all 774 unique games).

A massive thank-you to our Marquee Sponsors. Without them our event simply would not be possible.

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 ;))
• Bardic Inspirations
• Chip Theory Games
• Evil Genius Games
• The Army Painter
• ILO
• Trapped Chest

Other Vendors, Sponsors & Partners

• @scorpiusoka7
• Blacks Sideshow
• Compose Dreams Games
• Firby Creations
• Interlake 3D Printing
• North Lake Leather
• Manitoba Tabletop Designers Group
• 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 2026 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.
• North Lake Leather will be joining us with a selection of Leather dice bags, dice trays, 3D printed dice towers, dragons, keychains and bookmarks!
• 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!
• 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.

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 – a passionate game developer and fantasy writer working on the Arcane Dominion TTRPG project, which is designed to give players the freedom to customize their characters through in-game Training. Find rulebooks, stories, quests, items, characters, and more to add to your world of adventure!
• Bardic Inspirations – DM Lytha, a professional DM and Community manager for Elite Adventures will be joining us to run a number of their game modules for both D&D 5e and indie systems over the convention weekend!
• Colton Balske – is a Winnipeg-based Indie TTRPG designer and digital artist. He loves creating stories and games that make memorable experiences with friends. He hopes his games can create meaningful face-to-face connections full of silliness, antics, and chaos!
• GMB Chomichuk is 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.
• Q4ia is a company focused on creating fun, memorable experiences for people of all ages through our tabletop games, reviews, tutorials, printables, and more! Come check out the medley of their own games and favourites from other publishers through the weekend.
• Dr. Ryan Clement 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. He also teaches and researches game studies at U of W.
• Trapped Chest is a Manitoba based developer/publisher owned and operated by Jed Doerksen that produces board games and TTRPGs. While we have physical games available we also promote accessibility by ensuring that our games have a free digital version, so those living in poverty can still afford to play.
• Valor & Villainy, creators of Lludwick’s Labyrinth, Minions of Mordak and Antagonists Arsenal will be with us all weekend!

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 2026.

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.