Awards

In 2019, our co-founder Catherine Croft was awarded a scholarship to attend the Tabletop Network Conference, a retreat featuring world famous board game designers.

In 2017 our co-founder Catherine Croft was nominated for the Rising Star Award by Women in Toys and was honored at a gala at Toy Fair in New York City.

In 2020, the SAAM Arcade Indie Developer Showcase selected Starsmith, designed by our co-founder Catherine Croft.  This exhibit honored the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women suffrage. Featured games explored the role of women in affecting major change in society, the political sphere, and the gaming industry.

This annual international recognition program honors outstanding tabletop games used for education or training. We've won multiple awards during 2017-2019:

• Gold - Cycles

• Silver - Will it [BLANK]?

• Bronze - Tacto, Crazy Cats, Insect Intersection, Alembic

The Imagination Gaming Awards recognize games that consist of great content, mechanics, and design. They are bestowed on games that, while primarily engaging and fun, are not necessarily designed for education.

From 2017-2019, we won multiple awards:

• Silver - Insect Intersection

• Bronze - Tacto, Crazy Cats

• Seal - Alembic

In the 2015-16 competition, Catlilli Games was selected for Round 2 of the Duke Startup Challenge (Alumni Track), for which we created an Indiegogo campaign.  Over 500 alumni serve as judges, ranking the start-ups on their products and business plans. Our co-founder Catherine Croft graduated from Duke in 1999. 

In 2015, Catlilli Games was selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in this competition and co-founder Catherine Croft presented a one-minute pitch in front of the audience of the inGENuitY event at the Washington Post building, judged by a panel of business, policy, and marketing experts.