My name is Jan Willem van Dijk, I designed ‘Clash d’Ardèche – Campground Tycoon’, the game that might be your only chance of owning a campground in France yourself. Sitting in front of my tent during vacation in France, I became aware of a deep, heartfelt wish to start a campground myself. After lingering on […..]
I’m Reiner Stockhausen and I’d like to share with you the story behind my game Orléans. The history of Orléans began 10 years ago when I had the first idea for a basic concept. This original idea was rather abstract: Each player starts with a fixed amount of several colors and has to spend these […..]
I’m Douglas Morse and I’d like to share with you the story behind my coffee table book Wizards of the Tabletop: Portraits of Game Designers & Accomplices. Author and Photographer Douglas Morse. Steve Jackson was exhausted. He had just taken on 12 opponents grand master style in an Ogre Tournament. He won ten of them. […..]
We are living in the Golden Age of tabletop games. Board and card game Christmas gifts are hot, and the number of new tabletop releases increases every year. Platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have also drastically boosted sales of the so-called analog games. This year, more games have been produced than in any year […..]
My name is Mohammad Hasan, and my wife is Maryam. We are both pharmacists from Iran. We have been interested in mind games for quite a long time, but our more advanced interest started about 5 years ago. We mainly focus on abstract strategy board game design, but additionally we work on other types of […..]
I’m Shem Phillips, a board game designer and publisher from Kapiti, New Zealand. I’ve been designing games for around nine years, originally just as a hobby and creative outlet. Over this time I have also held down a day job, primarily as an operations manager at the digital garment printing company, Print Mighty. However, next […..]
Well hello there. The name is Joost Das, designer of digital and analog games, while at the same time working as an illustrator and graphic designer. Over the last 2 years I have directed all my free time, experience and skills into my latest project: Hylaria. A very easy to learn social game that pits […..]