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🧔 20 more cool board game designers (part II)

No less cool developers than in the first part.

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Let me introduce to you 20 more (the first 15 can be found here) famous board game designers. Initially, I wanted to make one more 15 designers list, but I have prepared more designers. And I had to remove somebody… But why? My blog - my rules 🙃. Let it be 20 designers list now)

It’s not easy to find the info about some designers. Let their games list speaks for itself.

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The list is again sorted alphabetically.

And you can again find digital versions of their games here.

🇫🇷 Bruno Faidutti ⬆️

Bruno Faidutti

Bruno Faidutti (born October 23, 1961) is a prolific French game designer, historian, and sociologist who frequently collaborates with other game designers, including Alan R. Moon, Bruno Cathala, and Michael Schacht, although he has also done many designs on his own, including perhaps his most famous game, Citadels.

Bruno Faidutti has created and published over 40 board and card games.

Some high-rated games:

🇺🇸 Christian T. Petersen ⬆️

Christian T. Petersen

Christian Petersen is the founder and CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, as well as one of their main game designers. His design of Twilight Imperium helped transform Fantasy Flight from a small importer of European comics into a large game publisher.

Christian Petersen is born in Washington, grew up in Denmark, and moved back to Minnesota in 1991.

Some high-rated games:

🇺🇸 Cole Wehrle ⬆️

Cole Wehrle

Cole, born 1986, grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended Indiana University and earned a degree in Journalism and English with additional concentrations in History (19th century) and film. As a student he was heavily involved in labor rights movements in Bloomington, Indiana and studied under Purnima Bose and Joss Marsh. His undergraduate thesis was on the writings of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Franz Fanon. After graduation he worked as a manager of a group home for children with disabilities and as a research assistant. He then attended the University of Texas at Austin and earned his MA in 2012 and his PhD in 2017. While at UT, Cole was a member of the E3W interest group and the Digital Writing and Research Lab. His dissertation concerns how the experience of empire altered the way British writers imagined distances of time and space during the early and mid 19th century. It was directed by Samuel Baker and Neville Hoad.

After his defense, he joined Leder Games in Saint Paul, Minnesota as a developer and game designer. His first game with Leder, Root, was crowdfunded in 2017 and published the following year. He continues to work at Leder Games as a staff game designer and helps direct the studio. In 2018 he started Wehrlegig Games with his brother, Drew, which handles the publication of his historical games.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Root
  • 2000+. Pax Pamir: Second Edition
  • 2000+. Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile

🇺🇸 Corey Konieczka ⬆️

Corey Konieczka

Corey Konieczka is a table top game designer at Fantasy Flight Games.

Some high-rated games:

🇭🇺 Dávid Turczi ⬆️

Dávid Turczi

Dávid Turczi is a game designer from Hungary, living in Leiden, Netherlands (previously lived and worked in London, UK).

Some high-rated games:

🇩🇪 Friedemann Friese ⬆️

Friedemann Friese

Friedemann Friese (born June 5, 1970 in Stadthagen, Lower-Saxony, Germany) is a German board game designer who is known for pairing interesting gameplay with quirky themes. He is notorious for liking the color green, to the point which he includes the color on the cover of all of his designs, and has dyed his hair green. He also likes to begin every word in his titles with the letter ‘F,’ though this trait is sometimes lost in the English versions of his titles. He designs for his own game publishing company, 2F-Spiele.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Power Grid
  • 2000+. Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America
  • 2000+. Friday
  • 2000+. Fabled Fruit
  • 2000+. Fauna

🇵🇱 Ignacy Trzewiczek ⬆️

Ignacy Trzewiczek

Ignacy Trzewiczek (born September 23, 1976) is a Polish game designer and long-time role-playing game writer. Author of Boardgames That Tell Stories - collection of essaywork written with famous designers like Rob Daviau, Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala, Mike Selinker and many more.

Some high-rated games:

🇳🇱 Jeroen Doumen ⬆️

Jeroen Doumen

Jeroen Doumen is a game designer from the Netherlands. He obtained a PhD in mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Some high-rated games:

🇳🇱 Joris Wiersinga ⬆️

Joris Wiersinga

Joris Wiersinga was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in ~1974. He has been designing games since he was a kid, selling his first computer game at age 14 and his first card- and board games a few years later. Together with Jeroen Doumen, Tamara Jannink and Herman Haverkort he founded Splotter Spellen, which has published a number of games listed on the Geek.

Joris’ main board game interest lies in complex economic board games. His favourite non-splotter game is probably still 1830, although it’s been a long time since he played it…

Outside of Splotter, Joris creates computer games for physical rehabilitation of elderly people with his company SilverFit. He has also created a number of games for professional use in change management and lean operations transformations.

Some high-rated games:

🇩🇪 Mac Gerdts ⬆️

Mac Gerdts

Mac Gerdts, also known as Walther M. Gerdts, is a game designer from Hamburg, Germany, who is known for designing the Rondel series of board games such as Imperial, Antike, Hamburgum, and Navegador, as well as for the Concordia series of games and expansions.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Concordia
  • 2000+. Concordia Venus
  • 2000+. Imperial
  • 2000+. Navegador
  • 2000+. Imperial 2030
  • 2000+. Antike

🇩🇪 Michael Kiesling ⬆️

Michael Kiesling

Michael Kiesling (born 1957 in Bremen, Germany) is a game designer who frequently collaborates with game designer Wolfgang Kramer. He is also a manager of a software company in Bremen.

For many years, Kramer and Michael Kiesling worked on games together by telephone and fax correspondence despite never having met. They have continued to produce games together, and Kiesling’s more notable earlier work was generally that which he has produced with Kramer, including Spiel des Jahres winners Tikal and Torres. However, his solo-authored economic game, Vikings, from 2007 is highly sought after, and well-regarded. More recently, his abstract tile laying game series, Azul, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra and Azul: Summer Pavilion, from 2017-2019 are highly awarded and well thought of.

Some high-rated games:

🇦🇺 Phil Walker-Harding ⬆️

Phil Walker-Harding

Phil Walker-Harding (was born in 1981 in Wollongong, Australia) is an Australian game designer who is known, among other things, for the board game Imhotep, nominated for the jury award Game of the Year in 2016.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Sushi Go Party!
  • 2000+. Bärenpark
  • 2000+. Gizmos
  • 2000+. Imhotep
  • 2000+. Sushi Go!
  • 2000+. Silver & Gold
  • 2000+. Cacao

🇺🇸 Richard Borg ⬆️

Richard Borg

Richard Borg is a game designer best known for the Commands and Colors System, but also well regarded for many other designs. Borg had his first game, Liars Dice, published in 1987 by Milton Bradley. This design was later republished as Bluff by F.X. Schmid in 1993 and went on to win the 1993 Spiel des Jahres. Borg continued in game design through the 90s, eventually introducing the Command and Colors system in 2000 with Battle Cry.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Memoir '44
  • 2000+. Commands & Colors: Ancients
  • 2000+. BattleLore: Second Edition (with 🇺🇸 Robert A. Kouba)
  • 2000+. BattleLore
  • 2000+. Commands & Colors: Napoleonics
  • 2000+. Perudo

🇺🇸 Richard Garfield ⬆️

Richard Garfield

Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a game designer and mathematics professor who is known for creating the very popular card game Magic: The Gathering.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Android: Netrunner (with 🇺🇸 Lukas Litzsinger)
  • 2000+. Magic: The Gathering
  • 2000+. Bunny Kingdom
  • 2000+. King of Tokyo
  • 2000+. RoboRally
  • 2000+. KeyForge: Call of the Archons
  • 2000+. King of New York

🇩🇪 Rüdiger Dorn ⬆️

Rüdiger Dorn

Rüdiger Dorn (born 1969) is a German-style board game designer.

Fantasy Flight Games published Rüdiger Dorn’s fantasy-themed Dragonheart (2010). 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 award for his game Die Baumeister von Arkadia (released in English as simply Arkadia) and in 2012 for Las Vegas. He also won the 2014 Kennerspiel des Jahres award for his game Istanbul. In 2016, he was once again nominated for the Spiel des Jahres with his game Karuba. In 2018 Luxor was also nominated for Spiel des Jahres.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Istanbul
  • 2000+. Goa
  • 2000+. Karuba
  • 2000+. Las Vegas
  • 2000+. Jambo
  • 2000+. Genoa

🇺🇸 Ryan Laukat ⬆️

Ryan Laukat

Board game artist and designer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ryan’s publishing company is Red Raven Games.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Sleeping Gods
  • 2000+. Near and Far
  • 2000+. Above and Below
  • 2000+. Roam
  • 2000+. Empires of the Void II
  • 2000+. Islebound
  • 2000+. Eight-Minute Empire: Legends

🇮🇹 Virginio Gigli ⬆️

Virginio Gigli

Board game designer from Italy.

Some high-rated games:

🇨🇿 Vladimír Suchý ⬆️

Vladimír Suchý

Vladimír Suchý is a game designer known for various works published by Czech Games Edition.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Underwater Cities
  • 2000+. Praga Caput Regni
  • 2000+. Pulsar 2849
  • 2000+. Last Will
  • 2000+. Shipyard
  • 2000+. The Prodigals Club

🇩🇪 Wolfgang Kramer ⬆️

Wolfgang Kramer

Wolfgang Kramer is considered one of the key innovators of modern board games. He is often credited with pioneering area-control mechanics, with his game El Grande, action-point systems, with the Mask Trilogy, and even introducing the familiar victory-point-track-going-around-the-board in Heimlich & Co.

Wolfgang Kramer was Germany’s first full-time professional game-designer. For many years, Kramer and Michael Kiesling worked on games together by telephone and fax correspondence despite never having met. They are still producing games together, as of 2012, with their Essen 2012 release, The Palaces of Carrara. Kramer is now in his seventies, and Kiesling in his fifties.

Kramer has often collaborated with other authors. His collaboration with Richard Ulrich has given him two of his most notable successes, El Grande, and The Princes of Florence. Kramer has won the German “Spiel Des Jahres” prize a record five times.

There does not seem to be a common theme throughout Kramer’s work, which ranges from family games, through to high-strategy titles. What is evident in his games is the sheer wealth of experience Kramer and his collaborators carry.

Some high-rated games:

🇦🇺 Wolfgang Warsch ⬆️

Wolfgang Warsch

Wolfgang Warsch (born February 19, 1980 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian molecular biologist and game designer. As a molecular biologist, he works in the field of cancer research and has received several prizes and a scholarship for his work. His board game The Quacks of Quedlinburg, the card game The Mind and the dice game That’s Pretty Clever! all appeared in January 2018 and were nominated for Game of the Year or for Kennerspiel des Jahres in the same year, The Quacks of Quedlinburg was awarded there.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. The Quacks of Quedlinburg
  • 2000+. That's Pretty Clever!
  • 2000+. The Taverns of Tiefenthal
  • 2000+. Twice as Clever!
  • 2000+. Wavelength (with 🇺🇸 Alex Hague and Justin Vickers)
  • 2000+. The Mind
  • 2000+. Clever Cubed
  • 2000+. Illusion

Raman Hryhoryk ⬆️

Raman Hryhoryk

Raman is a board game designer from Belarus. He works in the board games shop. He is not so famous yet as the designers above, but his game Red Outpost is really good. Hope he will create more new games in the future.

Some high-rated games:

  • 2000+. Red Outpost

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