Jason Morningstar submitted The Shab-al-Hiri Roach to the Game Chef 2005 competition, where it was chosen as one of the "Inner Circle" - the group of the nine best games from that year's 28 entrants.
[1]: 290 [2] Morningstar also wrote Durance for the Game Chef 2011 competition.
[1]: 304 [3] With time it evolved into a marketing event which created "national" editions, where small groups of players (generally connected to publishing micro-companies) assigned prizes to friends or game companies for which they worked.
[4] Game Chef ended in 2020 due to the low interest demonstrated by the RPG community.
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