At the end of next week I shall be off — again! — to Granollers in sunny Catalonia, this time for the culmination of the inaugural Europa Ludi game design contest. In May I reported on my trip to the JugarXJugar games fair in Granollers, one year after my game Oracle Pathway won the 6th City of Granollers game design contest, and in time to see my winning design in published form as Divinare. It was a quite a trip!

This year, the organizers of the Granollers contest have joined forces with their colleagues at the long-established Boulogne-Billancourt contest in France to create Europa Ludi. My prototype is one of the 10 finalists announced by the Europa Ludi organisers in July. It is not, I think, within the spirit of the contest for me to tell you which of the prototypes is my design, although it may not be so very hard to guess if you take a look at the titles.

Fingers crossed! And I shall let you know how I get on…