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| x Klaus Teuber |
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Settlers of Catan |
Klaus Teuber (born June 25, 1952) is a German designer of board games. He won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for The Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a dental...
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| x Friedemann Friese | Power Grid |
Friedemann Friese (born June 5, 1970) is a German board game designer, currently residing and working in Bremen. His trademarks are his green-colored hair and games whose titles begin with the letter "F". The majority of his games, self-published by...
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| x Alfred Mosher Butts | Scrabble |
Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938.
Alfred Mosher Butts was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 13, 1899. Born to Allison Butts and Arrie Elizabeth...
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| x Wolfgang Kramer | Torres |
Wolfgang Kramer (born June 29, 1942 in Stuttgart) is a German board game designer.
Kramer formerly worked as an operations manager and computer scientist, but since 1989 he has worked full-time on game design. He has designed over 100 games, many...
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| x Philippe Keyaerts | Vinci |
Philippe Keyaerts is a Belgian designer of German-style board games. His two most popular games are Evo and Vinci. Those two games use the mechanism of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play. He...
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| x Allan B. Calhamer | Diplomacy |
Allan B. Calhamer (born December 7, 1931) is an American mail carrier who invented the board game Diplomacy.
A friend of Calhamer's recounted how, when they were boys in La Grange Park, Illinois, he and Calhamer "discovered in the attic a geography...
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| x Tom Filsinger |
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Tom Filsinger (February 11, 1957— ) is a creator, author, professor, and entrepreneur. He has founded two companies, Filsinger Games and Filsinger Publishing.
Filsinger is the creator of Champions of the Galaxy and Legends of Wrestling role playing...
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| x Redmond A. Simonsen |
Redmond Askel Simonsen (June 18, 1942–March 9, 2005) was an American graphic artist and game designer best known for his work at the board wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Simonsen was considered an...
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| x Mark Derrick |
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Mark Derrick works for the Tennessee Department of Transportation as a Civil Engineer and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1982. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Tennessee and has been married to his wife Maria...
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| x Gary Gygax |
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Dungeons & Dragons |
Ernest Gary Gygax ( /ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) with Dave Arneson. Gygax has been as described as...
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| x Lynn Willis |
Lynn Willis is a wargame and role-playing game designer who has done work for Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop, and Chaosium.
Willis began by designing science fiction wargames for Metagaming, starting with the Godsfire in 1976. He also...
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| x Christian Wolf |
Christian Wolf is a designer of board games. He has won the As d'Or for Tutankhamen and the Kinderspiel des Jahres for Klondike in 2001; both were collaborations with Stefanie Rohner.
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| x Rüdiger Dorn | Jambo |
Rüdiger Dorn (born 1969) is a German-style board game designer. He was nominated for the 2005 Spiel des Jahres award for his game Jambo, which also placed 8th for the Deutscher Spiele Preis award. He was also nominated for the 2007 Spiel des Jahres...
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| x Francis Tresham | Civilization |
Francis Tresham is an United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s. Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its Civilization board game,...
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| x Steve Jackson |
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GURPS |
Steve Jackson (born c. 1953) is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming Concepts designing such games as Ogre and The Fantasy Trip, he left to found Steve Jackson Games (SJ Games) in the early 1980s. He designed many of...
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| Illuminati | |||
| x Ken Rolston |
Ken Rolston is an American computer game and board game designer best known for his work with West End Games and the hit computer game series The Elder Scrolls. In February 2007, instead of retiring after 25 years in the game design industry, he...
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| x Kris Burm |
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PÜNCT |
Kris Burm is a Belgian game designer specializing in abstract board games. He is best known for his award-winning GIPF series of games. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and still lives there today.
Published games include:
All his published...
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| x Robert Abbott |
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Robert Abbott (born March 2, 1933) is an American game inventor, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Official Grand Old Man of Card Games". Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the IBM 360 assembly language, he has been...
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| x Martin Wallace | Railroad Tycoon |
Martin Wallace is a game designer from Manchester, England. He is the founder and chief designer of Treefrog (former Warfrog) Games. Wallace is known for designing complex strategy games that depict a variety of historical settings. Two themes he...
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| Conquest of the Empire | |||
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| x Jim Dunnigan | PanzerBlitz |
James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author, military-political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and wargame designer currently living in New York City, notable for his matter-of-fact approach to military analysis.
He was...
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| x Helmut Ohley |
Helmut Ohley has developed several 18XX games. He and Lonny Orgler formed Double-O Games to publish future 18XX titles.
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| x Howard Thompson | WarpWar |
Howard M. Thompson was a wargame designer and founder of Metagaming Concepts. His first game was Stellar Conquest, a popular and well-designed simulation of interstellar warfare.
Thompson is most famous for his idea to publish small, low-cost games...
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| x Elizabeth Magie | Monopoly |
Elizabeth "Lizzie" J. Phillips née Magie (1866–1948) was an American game designer. She invented The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly.
Elizabeth Magie was born in Canton, Illinois in 1866, and later became a follower of the economist Henry...
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| x Dirk Henn | Shogun |
Dirk Henn (1960–) is a German-style board game designer who was born in Bendorf, Germany
Dirk Henn is best known for his game Alhambra, which won the Spiel des Jahres and placed 2nd in the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 2003.
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| x John Hill | Hue |
John Hill is an American designer of military wargames, as well as rules for miniature wargaming such as Johnny Reb 3. He is a member of the Wargaming Hall of Fame.
Hill, a native of Indiana, is most known as the designer of the extremely popular...
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| x Fletcher Pratt |
Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.
According to L. Sprague de Camp, Pratt was born near Tonawanda, New...
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| x Mike Carr |
Mike Carr (born September 4, 1951) is a writer and game designer known for writing Fight in the Skies (1968, also known as Dawn Patrol). He also co-authored Don't Give Up The Ship! (1971) with Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax. Carr began wargaming with...
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| x Jerry Taylor | Hammer of the Scots |
Jerry Taylor (born 1963 or 1964) is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute where he researches environmental policy. He attended the University of Iowa as a political science major.
He is also a board game designer who has released three wargames,...
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| x David G. Watts |
David G. Watts is a Welsh games designer and publisher. Originally a school geography teacher at Milford Haven Grammar School, he designed Railway Rivals, his most popular game, to teach the geography of Wales and upon retirement published it under...
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| x Donald Featherstone |
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Donald F. Featherstone (born 20 March 1918, London) is a British author of more than forty books on wargaming and military history. He wrote classic texts on wargaming in the 1960s and 1970s.
During the Second World War, Featherstone attempted to...
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| x Wolfram Janich |
Wolfram Janich has published several 18XX games, and has started Marflow Games for future games in the series.
Janich, WolframJanich, Wolfram
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| x Lou Zocchi |
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Louis Zocchi, Sergeant, USAF (retired), is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice.
Zocchi and his company GameScience have published a number of games over the years (many designed by...
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| x Federico Vellani |
Federico Vellani (Born in Modena, Italy, 1960-04-18) is a board game designer. He has published two 18XX games:
Vellani appears to have withdrawn from the hobby.
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| x Lonny Orgler |
Lonny (Leonhard) Orgler is a creator of board games. He has developed three 18XX games, all set in Austria. He and Helmut Ohley formed Double-O Games to publish future 18XX titles.
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| x Larry Harris | Axis and Allies |
Larry Harris, Jr., is a game designer most famous for creating the board game Axis & Allies, as well as all of its sequels. His other significant games include Conquest of the Empire, Broadsides and Boarding Parties, LionHeart and more. He has also...
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| Thin Ice | |||
| Axis and Allies: Europe | |||
| x Greg Stafford |
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Francis Gregory Stafford (born February 9, 1948), usually known as Greg Stafford, is an American game designer, publisher and shaman.
Stafford is perhaps most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha, but is also a prolific games...
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| x Richard Garfield | Netrunner |
Richard Channing Garfield, PhD (born June 26, 1963, Philadelphia) is a game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech CCG, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (originally known as Jyhad), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars...
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| Filthy Rich | |||
| The Great Dalmuti | |||
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| x Alan R. Moon |
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Elfenland |
Alan R. Moon is an author of board games, born in Southampton, England, and currently living in the United States. Despite his nationality, he is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games. Many of his games...
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| Ticket to Ride | |||
| Ticket to Ride: Europe | |||
| Diamant | |||
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| x Scott Abbott |
Charles Scott Abbott is the co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit along with Chris Haney.
Known as "Scott," he was the owner of the Brampton Battalion hockey team, of the Ontario Hockey League. For his work in building this hockey club, he was inducted...
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| x Mike Selinker | Fightball |
Mike Selinker is a game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main and Fightball with James Ernest, Axis & Allies Revised Edition with Larry Harris, the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, and Risk Godstorm. He was a creative...
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| Unspeakable Words | |||
| Link 26 | |||
| Betrayal at House on the Hill | |||
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| x Andrew Looney | Cosmic Coasters |
Andrew J. Looney (born November 5, 1963), better known as Andy Looney, is an award-winning game designer and computer programmer.
Looney, his wife Kristin Looney, and Alison Frane together run the games company Looney Labs, which has published most...
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| Treehouse | |||
| Fluxx | |||
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| x Richard Berg |
For the television producer see Dick Berg.
Richard Berg, trained as a lawyer, is a prolific wargame designer, and recipient of the Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award in 1987. Notable games include SPQR and The Campaign for North Africa.
He was...
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| x Tony Bath |
Tony Bath (1926, Southampton -2000) was a British wargamer who favored the ancient period. His Hyboria campaign, based on the Conan the Barbarian stories of Robert E. Howard, is sometimes cited as the first fantasy wargame. It is even said to have...
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| x Thomas Lehmann | Fast Food Franchise |
Tom Lehmann has been an economist, programmer, boardgame publisher, game designer, and technical writer.
Tom has also contributed design ideas to other published games, including San Juan.
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| Pandemic: On the Brink | |||
| x Gary Mroczka |
Gary Mroczka is an 18XX designer, and has had 18GL published by Deep Thought Games, LLC.
As of 2006, he is working on 18NYC, an 18XX game modelling subway development in New York City. The game will push new boundaries of the 18XX system, adding...
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| x Tom Wham |
Tom Wham (born 1944 in Chester, Illinois) is a designer of board games who has also produced artwork, including that for his own games.
Wham worked a variety of odd jobs during his early adult life. After serving four years in the U.S. Navy, he...
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| x Reiner Knizia |
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Ra |
Reiner Knizia (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈknɪtsiə]) is a prolific German-style board game designer. Born in Germany, he developed his first game at the age of eight. He has a PhD in mathematics, and has been a full-time game designer since 1997,...
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| Amun-Re | |||
| Lost Cities | |||
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| x David Wesely | Source of the nile |
David Wesely (born March 15, 1945) is a wargamer, board game designer, and video game developer. Dave Arneson credited him with coming up with the idea of the role-playing game.
Wesely earned a B.S. in physics at Hamline University in 1967 and an M...
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| x Franz-Benno Delonge | Fjords |
Franz-Benno Delonge (1957-September 2, 2007) was a designer of German-style board games. He has been nominated for multiple best game awards, including Spiel des Jahres and International Gamers Awards. TransAmerica won the Mensa best mind game award...
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| x Bryan Ansell |
Bryan Ansell is a British role-playing and war game designer. He founded Asgard Miniatures before creating Citadel Miniatures in the late 1970s. Around 1982 - 83, he became Managing Director of Games Workshop, and bought Games Workshop from Steve...
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| x Greg Costikyan | Toon |
Greg Costikyan, sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames,...
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| x Justin D. Jacobson |
Justin D. Jacobson is an attorney and professional game designer.
Jacobson is the owner and operator of Blue Devil Games, publishers of role-playing games and strategy games. He is best known as the designer of Poisoncraft: The Dark Art, Dawning...
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| x John Jefferys |
John Jefferys, birth and death date unknown, is the first game designer to whom a game design can be definitively ascribed. (Note: In the Anglophone world, at least; prior dates are welcome.)
He is the designer of A Journey Through Europe, published...
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| x Andreas Seyfarth | San Juan |
Andreas Seyfarth (born November 6, 1962) is a German-style board game designer, who is most famous for creating Puerto Rico, which is rated #3 on BoardGameGeek. In 2002, the game was awarded first place for the prestigious Deutscher Spiele Preis ...
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| Thurn and Taxis | |||
| x Charles Darrow |
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Monopoly |
Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was born in Philadelphia; he is best known as the purported inventor of the Monopoly board game. Darrow was a domestic heater salesman from Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia (the part...
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| x Paul Randles |
Paul Joseph Randles (December 16, 1965 - February 10, 2003) was an American game designer who designed German-style board games. His games Pirate's Cove (with Daniel Stahl) and Key Largo (with Bruno Faidutti and Mike Selinker) were published first...
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| x Mike Young |
Mike Young is a game designer, author, and founder of the first independent professional LARP publishing house, "Interactivities Ink".
His works include co-authorship of Rules to Live By (RTLB), one of the few published generic (non-license not from...
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| x Ted Alspach |
Ted Alspach is a board-game designer and the author of more than 30 books on graphics, publishing and the web. He is best known for his Adobe Illustrator-related books, including Illustrator for Dummies and the best-selling Illustrator Bible series....
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| x Klaus-Jürgen Wrede | Carcassonne |
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (born 1963 in Meschede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German board game creator, the creator of the best-selling Carcassonne and Downfall of Pompeii.
Born to music-teacher parents in Meschede, Germany, Wrede grew up in the town of...
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| Carcassonne: Inns and Cathedrals | |||
| Carcassonne: The River | |||
| x Charles Grant |
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Charles Grant was a game author who helped popularize the hobby of tabletop wargaming. He is best known as the author of The War Game.
Born in Scotland, and served in the Royal Air Force in World War 2. Later in Scotland Yard's Special Branch....
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