Game-itoba is excited to partner with so many different companies as part of our event, here is a sneak peak of the vendors and designers who you can find at our event!

Marquee Sponsors

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.

Table Sponsors

The following companies were generous enough to support multiple games tables at our convention, please consider supporting them and if you do, let them know how you heard about them and thank them for their generous support.

• * Arctic Board Games – Arctic Board Games is a Canada wide board game and miniature retailer based out of Steinbach, Manitoba and the only dedicated board game retailer in Steinbach. Take a trip out there and say we said hello!
• * Across the Board – A game store and cafe in Winnipeg’s Exchange District seconds away from Main Street.

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.
• Game Knight Games and Cool Stuff – One of our Marquee Sponsors will have a range of tabletop gaming products available for sale.
• 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.
• * Idols of Torment – Come join Jeremy (aka Black Magic Craft) and JP to learn all about their skirmish miniatures game, described in their successful kickstarter as “my love letter to horror, hobby, and gaming“.
• 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.
• * 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 2025.

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.