Join Us for Spring SGX 2026!
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 6:00 p.m.
Memorial Student Center, Great Hall
Play games from cozy tabletop experiences to intense 3d races and multiplayer competitions, all created by students ranging from second years to seniors in UW-Stout's game design and development programs.
Check out the games from Spring SGX 2025 below!
SGX Fall 2025 Award Winners
GDD 100: Intro to Game Design
- Best Artwork: Stranding of the Ophelia
- Most Innovative Mechanics: Insignia
- Best Tabletop Production: The Lost Isle
- Audience Choice: Isle of the Marionettes
DES 322/522: Tabletop Game Design & Development
- Best Advanced Tabletop Game: Bog Born
- Audience Choice: Bog Born
GDD 200: Intro to Game Development
- Best Gameplay: Delve
- Best Visuals: Delve
- Audience Choice: Delve
GDD/CS 450: Capstone Games
- Best Process & Prototype (8:00 a.m. Section): Screwed
- Best Process & Prototype (2:30 p.m. Section): Esquelito
- Audience Most Anticipated: Lil’ Quests
GDD 325/525: Exploratory Game Design
- Most Innovative Gameplay: Retro Repair
- Most Innovative Art: Clean Break!
- Audience Choice: AES-RACE
Past SGX Award Winners
SGX Spring 2025 Award Winners
GDD 100: Intro to Game Design
- Most Innovative Mechanics: Gardens of New Babylon
- Most Original Theme: Catacomb Chaos!
- Best Visuals: Grand Cannon
- Audience Choice: Catacomb Chaos!
GDD 200: Intro to Game Development
- Best Gameplay: Exo Power
- Best Art: Secrets of the Saloon
- Audience Choice: Disassembly
GDD 325: Exploratory Game Design
- Best Gameplay: Meat and Cheese: Charcuterie Skirmish
- Best Art: Purrspective
- Audience Choice: The Last Fold
GDD/CS 451: Capstone Games
- Best Gameplay: TUBULAR!!
- Best Art: Dread Not
- Audience Choice: Dread Not
SGX Fall 2024 Award Winners
GDD 100: Intro to Game Design
- Most Innovative Mechanics: Feuding Farms
- Most Original Theme: Skies of November
- Best Visuals: Camp Woebehere
- Audience Choice: Bakery Bumble!
GDD 200: Intro to Game Development
- Best Gameplay: Sunchaser
- Best Art: Town of Fog
- Audience Choice: Electric Mouse
GDD 325: Exploratory Game Design
- Best Gameplay: OOB: Object Observation Bureau
- Best Art: AwwMageddon
- Audience Choice: AwwMageddon
GDD/CS 450: Capstone Games
- Best Process & Prototype: TUBULAR!!
- Audience Most Anticipated: TUBULAR!!
SGX Spring 2024 Award Winners
Sophomore Games (GDD 200)
- Best Art & Visuals: Filthy Rich
- Best Gameplay: Filthy Rich
- Audience Choice: Project Vulcanite
Experimental Games (GDD 325)
- Most Innovative Art & Visuals: Search for the Heart
- Most Innovative Gameplay: Timebound
- Audience Choice: Search for the Heart
Capstone Games (GDD/CS 451)
- Best Art & Visuals: Land of Lights
- Best Gameplay: Ripple & Frawg: The Seasonal Song
- Audience Choice: Club Crash
SGX Fall 2023 Award Winners
First-Year Student Games (GDD 100)
- Best Tabletop Game: Frying for the Dutchman
- Audience Choice: Claws & Clues
Sophomore Games (GDD 200)
- Best Art & Visuals: Abyssal
- Best Gameplay: Bloodless
- Audience Choice: Bloodless
Experimental Games (GDD 325)
- Innovation Award: Mochi Masters
- Audience Choice: Skyline Citygirl
Capstone Games (GDD/CS 450)
- Best Process/Prototype: Ripple & Frawg: The Seasonal Song
- Audience Most Anticipated: Boogie Beyond
SGX Spring 2023 Award Winners
First-Year Student Games (GDD 100)
- Best Implementation: They're Gobblin' My Gold
- Most Original Concept: Happy Little Dungeon Crawlers
- Audience Choice: The House of Secrets
Sophomore Games (GDD 200)
- Best Art & Visuals: Chiaroscuro
- Best Gameplay: Divine D-Listers
- Audience Choice: Pinky and Poe!
Junior Games (GDD 325)
- Best Art & Visuals: Moth Mystery
- Best Gameplay: Golfella
- Audience Choice: Combo Arena
Senior Games (GDD 450)
- Best Art & Visuals: Divining Rods
- Best Gameplay: Grape Juice City
- Audience Choice: Grape Juice City
SGX Fall 2022 Award Winners
FIRST-YEAR STUDENT GAMES (GDD 100)
- Freshman Best Implementation: Overlord
- Freshman Most Original Concept: Dark Offering
- Freshman Audience Choice Award: Blackstone Manor
SOPHOMORE GAMES (GDD 200)
- Sophomore Best Gameplay: Rise and Chime
- Sophomore Best Art: Starlight Postal
- Sophomore Audience Choice Award: Rise and Chime
JUNIOR GAMES (GDD 325)
- Junior Best Gameplay: Stellar Decay
- Junior Best Art: Sun Staff
- Junior Audience Choice Award: Forged
SENIOR GAMES (GDD 450)
- Senior Capstone Best Gameplay: Wobble Warriors
- Senior Capstone Best Art: Wobble Warriors
- Senior Capstone Audience Choice Award: Newt!