BOARD GAME DESIGNERS ASTRO PROJECT
Birth Data of 200 successful Designers
(with 39 Astrological Charts)

Patrice Guinard, CURA, Jan. 2021

 

I did my research mainly on Internet at the best sources that can be found in free access, neglecting magazine articles or information given in game boxes, with few exceptions. Any designer (or authorized relative) who would complete his birth date/place/time or correct any error or typo is invited to contact me. Also, as anyone who would let me know any serious information or link to complete this page.

The B.G.D.A.P. is related to board game designers only, not video game designers nor role playing game designers (with one or two exceptions). I've been interested in boardgames for ... ever: in its historical evolution since the Game of Goose (Gioco dell' Oca) to figurative and thematic modern games, and highly, for more than 30 years, in a real classification of boardgames by types oriented not only by mechanisms but also by feelings. In total 124 main categories: that project is in progress and will be published here within some years.

As a player: for one part I'm firstly a player of abstract games, a rather good one in some of them (Dvonn, Medina, Penguin, Ponte del Diavolo, Lines of Action) and mainly interested in creative refined and streamlined process of these games, but a mediocre Chess player too since November 1967 and a far more mediocre one in Go since July 1984 ; for another part I'm interested in historical and cultural simulation as they are elaborated in wargames, not so much by the fight itself than by the reproduction of historical conflict situations as they are represented into the game ; and for a medium part I'm finally convinced by heavy strategic boardgames and by their underlying mechanisms. So I roughly divided the games into these three categories: abstract games ca. 10%, wargames ca. 12%, the third and main category including some lighter, "family", or "thematic" but significant games.

A game and its rules could be considered as a true legislative corpus involving the free will of the human mind in its capacity to take decisions. It is a true creative body of rules engaging the liberty of each one, although a liberty framed, including that one to commit himself in such a game or in another. Games are pieces of creative thinking but also pieces of art, and some of them can be considered as real artistic objects. From this perspective, the German school has perhaps not been overstepped (Franckh/Perlhuhn, Theta, then LudoArt games), but see, recently, Trickerion (2015) by Mindclash Games, Kingdom Death: Monster (2015) by Kingdom Death, Mechs vs. Minions (2016) by Riot Games, and Lisboa (2017) by Eagle-Gryphon Games. However I will not give here any light on graphism, just focusing on selected designers for their inventiveness in mechanisms and game sequences.

This database of designers via their games is a mixture of four criteria : the games I've played, the games I own in my collection, the games I like, and the games historically important relatively to my knowledge. The result is a selection of 200 designers (including 26 deceased ones) out of the 32,500 or so in the BGG database, i.e. about 0.6%. A second table shows a selection of about 800 games whose I've played to more than half of them.

And I decided which designer will appear in the database before receiving or not (when I was able to have a contact) a positive feedback or an agressive skeptic one for some of them (in fact only one). The game designer may be curious in astrology or not "believing" in it : it's definitively not the question nor my problem. Personnally I do not believe either in common astrology nor in the main part of what can be found in books or on internet, but only in the astral philosophy that I've defended in my doctoral thesis on March 19, 1993 at 9:30 in room 113 of the Sorbonne University in Paris.

On one side, people (and many board game designers) generally do not have a correct idea of what is astrology but some are aware of what lies in magazine horoscopes or in skeptic/zetetic propaganda. They ignore that Kepler has been one of the main reformer of astrology (see Kepler's Astrology). On another side, people (and most of the astrologers) are not aware of the huge development of boardgames for fifty years, except some party games that could be found on supermarket shelves, and do not consider boardgame designing as a real creative activity of thinking. On the two main professionals birth databases on internet (the Gauquelin one on Cura, and the Astrodatabank) whose birth data end up being on the wikis, one can find only one designer: the inventor of Magic The Gathering. So, honestly, I do not know who could be interested in this study, except some very few people involved in history of boardgaming or some others, curious about serious natal astrology. On my side, I do "believe" in games and I see the acts of creating games, of playing, of thinking about invention and mechanics of gaming as real positive activities. I personally designed about 30 card and board games, but not having any time nor testing team for just trying to develop then promote them.

The borderline between author's games and industrial/commercial games is not so evident, and remains more difficult to establish in this field than for cinema or music. Commercial games, taking up proven game mechanisms but transposed to another thematic universes, can prove to be excellent games and nice to play in the end. On the other hand, author's games may not work and leave the player's playful thirst dissatisfied. And what ultimately matters in a game is the feeling produced by the act of playing and in the player's desire to renew his experience by restarting a game play.

Many of the pages on board games that can be found on the internet are mainly promotion of games, opinions of players, industry and business, and it's really hard to find any place where games are involved in historical and comparative studies, except for ancient and classic games (see The World of Abstract Games by João Pedro Neto, Card Games and Tile Games from around the World by John McLeod, or Board and Pieces by James J. Bond), in collectors pages (see Giochi dell'Oca e di percorso by Luigi Ciompi & Adrian Seville, and Collection de jeux anciens by Alain Rabussier), in the rather good historical summary by Marco Hirt too, the Kleines Spiele-Museum, and perhaps in some rare personal pages posted on BGG. I must add that I have not been authorized there to use my main account to contact designers.

Some designers who were not selected but nevertheless are the inventors of at least one excellent game published in the last 10/15 years, could be added to the database if ever they would inform me about their birth details:
Martin Ebel (DE) for Ponte del Diavolo (2007) ; Gordon Lamont and Fraser Lamont (US) for Snow Tails (2008) ; Colby Dauch (US) for Summoner Wars (2009)
Fran Diaz (ES) for Polis: Fight for the Hegemony (2010) ; Touko Tahkokallio (FI) for Eclipse (2011) ; Matt Calkins (US) for Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan (2011)
Greg Daigle (CA) for Hawaii (2011) ; Alain Epron (FR) for Vanuatu (2011) ; Brian Mayer (US) for Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2012)
Jim Pinto (US) for Dominare (2012) ; Yeon-Min Jung and Jun-Hyup Kim (KR) for Patchistory (2013) ; József Dorsonczky (RO) for Six Making (2013)
Etienne Espreman (BE) for Bruxelles 1893 (2013) ; François-Stanislas Thomas (FR) for Napoleon against Europe (2013)
Cody Miller (US) for Xia: Legends of a Drift System (2014) ; Shimpei Sato (JP) for Onitama (2014) ; Matúš Kotry (SK) for Alchemists (2014)
Adam Poots (US) for Kingdom Death: Monster (2015) ; Hervé Rigal (FR) for Shakespeare (2015) ; Koota Yamada (JP) for IKI (2015)
Alexander Huemer (AT) for Lignum (2015) ; Ole Steiness (DK) for Champions of Midgard (2015) ; Eros Lin (TW) for Burano (2015) and Round House (2016)
Tim Puls (DE) for The Colonists (2016) ; Frédéric Henry (FR) for Conan (2016) ; David Short (US) for Automobiles (2016)
François Vander Meulen (FR) for Tenkatoitsu (2016) ; Eric Reuss (US) for Spirit Island (2017) ; Marc Neidlinger (US) for Vindication (2018)
David Ausloos (BE) for Dreamscape (2019) ; Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison (FR) for Dominations: Road to Civilization (2019)

The information provided in the database are in free access on internet, and as such they are not private. I can give the links for each of them. For birth date and place, those that can be found on de.wikipedia (Spieleautor), en.wikipedia (Board game designers), fr.wikipedia (Auteur de jeux de société), it.wikipedia (Autori di giochi) and boardgamegeek.com (Designers Notices) are marked by white cells. Other ones were communicated to me by the designers themselves, specifically for this project, and I thank them all warmly, even those who are not aware about their birth time (read "p.c." as personal communication and "b.c." as birth certificate in Source column of the first table). The fact that these game authors let me know their birth hours does not imply in any way that they believe in astrology, but only that they were kind enough to give them to me.

In the following table, designers can be listed by Name, Year of Birth, Country of birth ... Reload the page to return to the original table.
In the last column, an index of the designers' notoriety as indicated by the "fans" mention in BGG database at Christmas 2020. In the fourth column, one can access to the charts (CH) of designers whose birth time is now known. Another annexed page, Board Game Designers Charts, is regrouping the charts that are calculated with OCTOTOPE (8 Houses System), Longitudes and ALTITUDES for significant planetary bodies, and TRUE MC (the real ecliptic point of highest altitude at birth) : See my doctoral thesis (VIII.7-15) on the question about "How to draw a right astrological chart".


NUM NAME FORNAME COD YEA MON DAY HOU PLACE NAT SOURCE BGG
7 Lamorisse Albert Emmanuel CH 1922 01 13 21:00 Paris 14e FR (b.c. acte 5.1), d 02/06/1970 Karadj, Iran 1
24 Parlett David CH 1939 05 18 02:12 London, University College hospital GB (p.c. from his mother) 30
28 Dalgliesh Tom CH 1945 08 24 06:10 Aberdeen GB (p.c. James Eisert, Columbia Games) 19
30 Eberle William "Bill" Caveny CH 1945 10 29 11:20 Syracuse, NY US (p.c.) 25
34 Freeling Christian CH 1947 02 01 05:15 Enschede NL (p.c.) 19
50 Hostettler Urs CH 1949 08 14 20:30 Bern CH (p.c.) 15
37 Donadoni Marco Alberto CH 1951 11 08 09:30 Milano IT (p.c.) 12
67 Herman Mark CH 1954 11 18 12:00 Brooklyn, NY US (p.c. from b.c.) 228
39 Nédelec François Xavier CH 1954 12 03 12:15 Suresnes FR (b.c. acte n° 2.16), d 15/06/2009 Paris 1
69 Breese Richard CH 1956 06 20 15:00 London GB (p.c.) 120
73 Burm Kris CH 1957 08 26 05:15 Wilrijk near Antwerp BE (p.c. from his mother) 97
60 Knizia Reiner Walter CH 1957 11 16 06.00 Illertissen, BAY DE (p.c. Karen Easteal, "around 06:00") 1116
70 Ehrhard Dominique CH 1958 03 05 05:15 Mulhouse FR (b.c. acte n° 8.1) 16
93 Fraga Roberto CH 1960 12 11 11:30 La Coruña ES (p.c.) 38
89 Bey Frédéric CH 1961 04 20 01:20 Issy-les-Moulineaux FR (b.c. acte n° 4.2) 29
78 Garfield Richard Channing CH 1963 06 26 05:00 Philadelphia US (Selma Schepel, from mother, Data News 66) 434
61 Looney Andrew J. CH 1963 11 05 03:24 Washington US (p.c. from b.c.) 50
110 Cathala Bruno CH 1963 11 22 15:20 Belley FR (b.c. acte n° 4.1) 898
116 Meglio (di) Roberto CH 1966 03 29 13:00 Pisa IT (p.c. from his mother) 25
140 Lacerda Vital CH 1967 06 01 06:45 Lisboa PT (p.c.) 918
117 Boelinger Christophe CH 1967 07 16 02:50 Nice FR (p.c. and b.c. acte n° 2.51) 94
136 Gigli Virginio CH 1968 02 24 13:00 Roma IT (p.c. "about 13.00") 56
128 Matthews Jason CH 1970 07 14 19:55 Los Angeles, Queen of the Angeles hosp. US (p.c. from b.c.) 122
130 Feld Stefan CH 1970 10 02 10:00 Karlsruhe DE (p.c. "around 10:00 in the morning") 1483
166 Zizzi Pierluca CH 1970 12 17 12:00 Torino IT (p.c. "about 12:00 am") 21
127 Pauchon Sébastien CH 1971 06 04 14:00 Montreux CH (p.c. "around 2 pm") 65
170 Soledade Paulo CH 1975 11 12 06:00 Leiria PT (p.c.) 55
152 Brand Markus CH 1975 10 01 19:43 Beckum, NRW DE (p.c.) 51
151 Brand Inka CH 1977 03 19 16:15 Aurich, NDS DE (p.c.) 61
171 Fowers Tim CH 1977 12 18 05:46 Ithaca, NY US (p.c.) 130
189 Matejka Keith CH 1978 02 16 03:15 Corpus Cristi, TX US (p.c.) 39
160 Bauza Antoine CH 1978 08 25 12:15 Valence FR (b.c. acte n° 1.89) 985
131 Bonnessée Régis CH 1979 03 15 12:55 Levallois-Perret FR (b.c. acte n° 1.6) 38
190 Amundsen Østby Kristian Roald CH 1980 02 23 05:00 Stavanger, Rogaland NO (p.c.) 38
178 Bizarro Sentieiro Nuno CH 1980 02 26 16:00 Leiria PT (p.c.) 69
176 Kanai Seiji CH 1980 03 06 18:25 Kanagawa district JP (p.c.) 179
192 Childres Isaac CH 1982 04 24 14:20 Bakersfield, CA US (p.c. Chris Kessler, Cephalofair Games) 331
194 Péter Viktor CH 1985 10 19 02:30 Budapest HU (p.c. "during the early morning hours") 27
191 Chiacchiera Martino CH 1993 03 10 10:30 Perugia IT (p.c. "between 10 and 11 a.m.") 17
1 Magie Elizabeth "Lizzie"
1866 05 09
Macomb, IL US d 02/03/1948 Arlington, VA 4
2 Parker George Swinnerton
1866 12 12
Salem, MA US d 26/09/1952 Boston 5
3 Darrow Charles Brace
1889 08 10
Cumberland, Allegany, MD US d 29/08/1967 Ottsville, Bucks, PA 3
4 Butts Alfred Mosher
1899 04 13
Poughkeepsie, NY US d 04/04/1993 Rhinebeck, NY 2
6 Pratt Anthony Ernest
1903 08 10
Birmingham GB d 09/04/1994 Birmingham 1
5 Hein Piet
1905 12 16
Copenhagen DK d 17/04/1996 Middelfart, Funen 6
13 Sackson Sid
1920 02 04
Chicago US d 06/11/2002 New York 149
14 Randolph Alexander
1922 05 04
Dobrohost, South Bohemia CZ d 27/04/2004 Venezia 68
15 Soucie Claude
1923 06 14
Québec CA d 15/11/1996 Ridgewood, NY 1
18 Hoffmann Rudi
1924 08 30
Höxter, NRW DE d 18/07/2008 Bensheim, HES 7
8 Glonnegger Erwin
1925 05 19
Aulendorf, BW DE d 06/02/2016 Ravensburg 2
9 Roberts Charles Swann
1930 02 03
Baltimore, MD US d 20/08/2010 Baltimore 14
16 Fallon Michel
1931 11 30
Bruxelles BE d 03/03/2015 Fosses-la-Ville, NAM 1
10 Calhamer Allan Brian
1931 12 07
Hinsdale, IL US d 25/02/2013, La Grange, IL 12
19 Watts David Gwyn
1932 09 03
Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex GB
1
11 Abbott Robert
1933 03 02
St. Louis, MO US d 20/02/2018 Jupiter, FL 20
20 Benge Donald
1933 11 04
Chicago, Ravenswood Hospital US d 06/04/2007 Los Angeles 12
21 Solomon Eric William
1935 03 03
Royal Sutton Coldfield GB d 03/04/2020 Ilford 12
22 Tresham Francis George
1936 04

Northampton GB d 23/10/2019 Leighton Buzzard 87
12 Wittig Reinhold
1937 01 02
Göttingen DE
17
23 Gygax Ernest Gary
1938 07 27
Chicago US d 04/03/2008 Lake Geneva, WI 73
25 Chadwick Frank
1940 08 06

US
80
44 Kramer Wolfgang
1942 06 29
Stuttgart DE
373
26 Berg Richard Harvey
1943 03 10
New York US d 26/07/2019 Charleston, SC 124
17 Dunnigan Jim (James F.)
1943 08 08 * Spring Valley, NY US (p.c. time unknown) 93
72 Neuwahl Niek
1944 04 24
Zoeterwoude NL
7
45 Kobbert Max Jürgen
1944 05 28
Königsberg (Kaliningrad) DE
9
32 Wham Thomas "Tom"
1944 08 28
Chester, IL US
78
27 Olotka Peter
1944 11 18

US
39
29 Hamblen Richard
1945 02 02
Albuquerque, NM US
66
46 Brunnhofer Bernd
1946 07 27
Graz AT
45
84 Schlegel Martin
1946 09 20
Ahlen, NRW DE
13
33 Besinque Craig
1946



CA
26
48 Borg Richard
1948 02 30
Connecticut US
246
47 Schmiel Karl-Heinz
1948 11 28

DE
30
35 Petit Jean-Jacques
1949 06 17

FR
4
49 Mathieu Gérard
1949


Versailles FR
3
65 Sohre Michael
1949


Radebeul, SAX (Spielbox 06/2011) DE d 17/10/2011 Kleinmachnow, BB 2
51 Greenwood Don
1950 04 27

US
52
36 Bromley Darwin Paul
1950 10 23
Huntington, WV US d 02/01/2019 Jacksonville, FL 15
38 Pulsipher Lewis Errol
1951 01 22
Detroit US
14
64 Moon Alan Richard
1951 11 18
Southampton GB
244
56 Teuber Klaus
1952 06 25 * Breuberg (Rai-Breitenbach), HES DE (p.c. time unknown) 146
40 Siegers Roland
1952 10 02
Verviers BE
2
81 Vasey Charles
1952


Edinburgh GB
12
52 Leroy Claude
1952



FR
6
63 Zoch Klaus
1953 04 30
Zell am Harmersbach, BW DE
7
31 Jackson Steven "Steeve" Gary
1953


Tulsa, OK US
154
42 Jolly Thomas "Tom"
1954 04 08
Los Angeles US
37
88 Yianni John
1954 12


GB
48
41 Vitale Duccio
1954



IT
7
125 Eklund Phil
1955 03 31

US
328
54 Launius Richard
1955 05 04

US
219
85 Delonge Franz-Benno
1957 05 13
München DE d 02/09/2007 München 39
74 Simonitch Mark
1957 12 30
Ross, CA US
135
121 Kiesling Michael
1957


Bremen DE
248
68 Lehmann Thomas "Tom"
1958 07 01

US
286
71 Dorra Stefan H.
1958 07 30 * Soltau, NDS DE (p.c. time unknown) 75
86 Raicer Ted Samuel
1958 08 17
New Jersey US
59
43 Rowland Harry Grant
1958 10 05 * Townsville, Queensland AU (p.c. time unknown) 17
53 Laget Serge
1959 02 13
Oloron-Sainte-Marie FR
38
55 Johnson Jervis
1959 06 12
London GB
37
111 Simmons Bowen "Rachel"
1959 07 14

US
98
115 Steere Mark
1959 08 02
Palo Alto, CA US
13
91 Pallières (des) Philippe
1959 12 04
Paris FR
11
87 Keyaerts Philippe
1959



BE
60
92 Tavitian Bernard
1960 03 03

FR
6
146 Elliott Mike
1960 10 11

US
71
76 Cornett Günter
1960


Flensburg, SH DE
13
75 Henn Dirk
1960


Bendorf, RP DE
73
66 Faidutti Bruno
1961 10 32
Avignon FR
368
97 Burkhardt Günter
1961



DE
10
165 Stockhausen Reiner
1962 03 07
Aachen DE
68
98 Ruhnke Volko
1962 04 26

US
195
90 Wallace Martin
1962 07 10 * Romsey, Hampshire GB (p.c. time unknown) 889
77 Seyfarth Andreas
1962 11 06
München DE
112
118 Gerdts Walther "Mac"
1962


Hamburg DE
299
137 Beach Edward "Ed"
1963 02 23

US
39
109 Albertarelli Spartaco
1963 03 19
Milano IT
25
94 Wrede Klaus-Jürgen
1963 08 19
Meschede, NRW DE
118
95 Colovini Leo
1964 11 19 * Venezia IT (p.c. time unknown) 75
96 Schacht Michael
1964


Wiesbaden DE
174
59 Baker Stephen
1964



GB
47
112 Drover Glenn
1965 07 01

US
59
62 Nestel Frank
1965 10 12
Backnang, BW DE
8
143 Stein Dieter
1965



DE
27
113 Browne Cameron Bolitho
1966 06 16 * Brisbane, Women's hospital AU (p.c. no time recorded) 24
79 Chambers Andy
1966 10 20
Nottingham GB
10
119 Rieneck Michael
1966


Kiel, SH DE
58
124 Jensen Chad Erik
1967 04 16
San Francisco Bay Area US d 14/11/2019 Santa Rosa, CA ? 179
99 Nepitello Francesco
1967 12 29
Venezia IT
33
141 Eisenstein Bernd
1967


Speyer, RP DE
22
164 Alspach Ted
1968 02 01
New York US
132
102 Staupe Reinhard
1968 09 20 * Kassel, HES DE (p.c. time unknown) 15
142 Vaccarino Donald X.
1969 01 04
New York US
340
80 Dorn Rüdiger
1969 07 30 * Ibbenbüren, NRW DE (p.c. Maja Dorn, time unknown) 233
122 Drögemüller Jens
1969 10 19

DE
58
123 Sivél Richard
1969



DE
46
145 Cramer Matthias
1969

11:50
DE (Helvetia) 142
100 Rosenberg Uwe
1970 03 27
Aurich, NDS DE
1872
108 Daviau Robert "Rob"
1970 04 24
Maine US
267
104 Friese Friedemann
1970 06 05
Stadthagen, NDS DE
562
129 Chiarvesio Andrea
1970 07 19
Torino IT
47
148 Georges Xavier
1970



BE
112
147 Leacock Matt
1971 08 10
St. Paul, MN US
519
120 Chvátil Vladimír "Vlaada"
1971 09 14 * Jihlava CZ (p.c. Lena, time unknown) 1855
187 Pfister Alexander
1971 10 18
Bludenz, Vorarlberg AT
585
168 Roudy Ludovic
1971



FR
20
101 Petersen Christian Thomas
1972 04 04
Washington US
168
150 Lang Eric M.
1972 09 11
Montreal, Quebec CA
934
200 Hargrave Elizabeth
1972 12 31

US
166
103 Moorsel (van) Corné
1972



NL
33
149 Romeral Andrés Néstor
1972



ES
44
126 Ornella Emanuele
1972



IT
29
169 Chaboussit Cédrick
1973



FR
19
106 Wiersinga Joris
1974


Arnhem NL
49
163 Fryxelius Jacob
1974



SE (birth year, p.c.) 109
188 Matsuuchi Yukinori "Emerson"
1975 08 04
Los Angeles US
95
135 Chudyk Carl
1975 10 12

US
231
138 Oracz Michal
1975



PL
108
107 Doumen Jeroen
1975



NL
74
154 Trzewiczek Ignacy
1976 09 23
Gliwice PL
681
134 Attia William
1976



FR
50
157 Torbey Shadi
1976


Siegburg, NRW DE
142
153 Dubarry Philip
1977 01 24

US
35
158 Bentley Nick
1977 07 16

US
28
156 Mori Paolo
1977 07 04
Parma IT
97
105 Casasola Merkle Marcel-André
1977 08 10
Nürnberg DE
37
175 Carlson Adam
1977 09 19

US
16
167 Luciani Simone
1977 09 07 * Porto San Giorgio, Fermo IT (p.c. time unknown) 286
132 Wilson Kevin
1979 02 14

US
229
183 Gilmour Jonathan
1979 12 23

US
79
161 Marcussen Christian
1980 01 22

GB
85
193 Warsch Wolfgang
1980 02 19
Steyr AT
182
180 Stegmaier Jamey
1981 01 09
New York US (born in the evening) 869
159 Walker-Harding Phil
1981


Wollongong, New South Wales AU
244
155 Konieczka Corey
1982 02 18

US
629
197 Phillips Shem
1984



NZ
216
179 Al-JouJou Juma
1985 09 30 * Sharjah, United Arab Emirates AE (p.c. time unknown) 44
172 Laukat Ryan
1985 11 11

US
511
195 Wehrle Cole
1986 10 03

US
301
181 Almes Scott
1987 07 31

US
183
196 Dunstan Matthew
1987 11 15
Sydney AU
17
174 Hayashi Hisashi
?



JP
78
177 Hawthorne Jerry
?



US
105
199 Thompson David
?



US
52
139 Bleasdale Sebastian
?



GB
36
186 Dujardin Sébastien
?


Tournai BE
80
184 Risthaus Stefan
?



DE
24
185 Odendahl Andreas
?



DE
21
162 Orgler Leonhard "Lonny"
?



AT
26
82 Ernest James
?



US
81
83 Zeimet Jacques
?



LX
15
133 Czarnetzki Frank
?



DE
2
173 Tascini Daniele
?


Porto San Giorgio, Fermo ? IT
244
57 Poël (du) Jean
?



DE
7
58 Riedesser Wolfgang
?



DE
3
198 Turczi David
?



HU
185
144 Suchý Vladimír
?


Praha CZ
139
182 Canetta Marco
?



IT
9
114 Steding Andreas
?


Göttingen DE
65


As coincidences, there are three designers who have their aniversaries on April 24, three others on November 18, and even four on August 10, but as expected, the distribution of Board Game Designers in the Zodiac (Solar Sign) does not appear as significant as Chess Champions one. Nevertheless the Summer and Fall quarters are more represented than the Spring and Winter ones (41-41 vs 31-35), probably because Spring is the area of Social/Work activity and Winter that one of Mental/Scientific thinking while Summer and Fall are related to Imaginary Worlds. More specically, well below average, Gemini/Jupiter represents legislative Law and Capricorn/Saturn Scientific Law, while the acts of creating and playing games are related to free and extra-social activities often condemned by legislations over the centuries (prohibition of gambling, practice of Morris attested by lines engraved on the stone at paved forecourts of cathedrals when women went to pray, the sulphurous reputation of role-playing games in the 1980s...). Gaming is both a convivial and "trans-social" phenomenon in that it invites to go beyond the usual social cogs and precedences, and to distance from them. Thus the Moment of Gaming is a privileged piece of time that is to be shared and allows to escape from the locks, subordinations and sometimes humiliations that could be experienced in one's factories, companies or offices.

Distribution of 148 Board game Designers in the Zodiac ; PG, CURA, JAN 21

1 Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie
1903 the inventor of The Landlord's Game (1903), the very first prototype of Monopoly (Parker Brothers, 1933), designer of Bargain Day (1937) and King's Men (1937)
2 George Swinnerton Parker
1888 founder of Parker Brothers Company, designer of Chivalry (1888) aka Camelot (1930), Pit (1903), Rook (1906)
3 Charles Brace Darrow
1933 the reinventor of Monopoly (1933) after Lizzie Magie
5 Piet Hein a 1933 mathematician, physicist and "gruking" poet, inventor of a solid dissection puzzle, the Soma Cube (1933), and connection game Hex (1942)
4 Alfred Mosher Butts
1938 the inventor of Scrabble (1938)
6 Anthony Ernest Pratt
1949 the inventor of Clue or Cluedo (1949)
9 Charles Swann Roberts w 1954 the father of modern Board Wargaming with Tactics (1954), Tactics II (1958), Bismarck (1962), Afrika Korps (1964)
11 Robert Abbott a 1956 Eleusis (1956), Epaminondas (1975), Code 777 (1985), Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War (1992)
7 Albert Emmanuel Lamorisse
1957 film-maker and designer of La Conquête du Monde (1957), the very first version of the successful Risk (1959)
10 Allan Brian Calhamer
1958 the designer of Diplomacy (1958)
8 Erwin Glonnegger
1959 editor for Ravensburger during 35 years, author of "Das Spiele-Buch" (1988 ; 2009), designer of Memory aka Concentration (1959)
12 Reinhold Wittig
1959 Piratenbillard (1959), Das Spiel (1980), Corda (1982), Cubus (1987), Maritim (1987), Volta (2003)
14 Alexander Randolph
1962 American designer: Twixt (1962), Code 777 (1985), Raj (1988), Inkognito (1988), Orbit (1993), Ricochet Robots (1999), Big Shot (2001)
13 Sid Sackson
1963 author of "A Gamut of Games" (1969) ; designer of Focus (1963), Acquire (1964), Sleuth (1971), Can't Stop (1980), Samarkand (1980), I'm the Boss! (1994)
16 Michel Fallon
1966 baron and engineer, designer of Magellan (1966)
17 Jim (James F.) Dunnigan w 1967 Jutland (1967), PanzerBlitz (1970), Panzergruppe Guderian (1976), Empires of the Middle Ages (1980)
15 Claude Soucie a 1969 Lines of Action (1969), Zen l'initié (1997)
20 Donald Benge a 1972 Conquest (1972), Grand Conquest (2006)
28 Tom Dalgliesh w 1972 Quebec 1759 (1972), Napoléon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (1974), EastFront (1991), Wizard Kings (2000), Hammer of the Scots (2002), Crusader Rex (2005), Richard III (2009)
18 Rudi Hoffmann
1973 Tally Ho! (1973), Janus (1975), Café International (1989), Ramparts (1993)
19 David Gwyn Watts
1973 Railway Rivals aka Dampfross (1973-79), Chessington (1990)
21 Eric William Solomon a 1973 Aggression (1973), Black Box (1977), Hyle (1979), Billabong (1992)
24 David Parlett
1973 Hare & Tortoise (1973) ; author of several books on abstract and card games including a "History of Board Games" (1999 ; 2018)
22 Francis George Tresham
1974 1829 (1974), Civilization (1980), 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons (1986), Revolution: The Dutch Revolt 1568-1648 (2004)
23 Ernest Gary Gygax r 1974 the designer of the renowned fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (1974), then Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1977-79)
26 Richard Harvey Berg w 1976 Conquistador (1976), Terrible Swift Sword (1976), Blackbeard (1991), SPQR (1992), Successors (1997-2008), Pax Romana (2006), Onward, Christian Soldiers (2006)
25 Frank Chadwick w 1977 Imperium: Empires in Conflict (1977), A House Divided (1981), Fire in the East (1984), The Third World War: Battle for Germany (1984)
27 Peter Olotka
1977 Cosmic Encounter (1977), Dune (1979) and Borderlands (1982) with Bill Eberle and Jack Kittredge
29 Richard Hamblen w 1977 Victory in the Pacific (1977), Magic Realm (1979), Gunslinger (1982), Merchant of Venus (1988)
30 William "Bill" Caveny Eberle
1977 poet, programmer and database developer, designer of Cosmic Encounter (1977), Dune (1979) and Borderlands (1982) with Peter Olotka and Jack Kittredge
31 Steven "Steeve" Gary Jackson w 1977 Ogre (1977), Melee (1977), G.E.V. (1978), Car Wars (1981), Illuminati (1987), Munchkin (2001)
32 Thomas "Tom" Wham
1979 The Awful Green Things From Outer Space (1979), Kings & Things (1986), Iron Dragon (1994), Feudality (2011)
37 Marco Alberto Donadoni w 1979 the main designer of famous "International Team": Zargo's Lords (1979), Colonisator: The Twelve Planets' War (1979), VII Legio (1982), The Game of Medici (1982)
39 François Xavier Nédelec r 1979 designer of the Space Opera role-playing game Empire Galactique (1984) ; Colonisator: The Twelve Planets' War (1979), Mai 68 (1980), El Dorado (1981)
34 Christian Freeling a 1980 the creator of MindSports The ArenA ; Havannah (1980), Emergo (1986), Grand Chess (1987), Dameo (2000)
35 Jean-Jacques Petit w 1980 RPG designer and a pioneer of French wargame after Jean-Pierre Défieux ; Bataille de Fleurus (1980), Bataille de Valmy (1981), Bataille de la Marne 1914 (1982), Les Aigles (1990)
41 Duccio Vitale
1980 French designer: Mai 68 (1980) with François Nédelec, Condottiere (1995) and Serenissima (1996) with Dominique Ehrhard, Fief 2 (1989), Kharkov 1943 (1992)
33 Craig Besinque w 1982 Rommel in the Desert (1982), EastFront (1991), Hellenes: Campaigns of the Peloponnesian War (2009), Triumph & Tragedy (2015)
36 Darwin Paul Bromley
1982 Empire Builder (1982), Eurorails (1990), Iron Dragon (1994)
38 Lewis Errol Pulsipher
1982 Dragon Rage (1982), Britannia (1986)
40 Roland Siegers a 1983 Uisge (1983), Abilene (1983), Restaurant (1987), Pyramidis (1988), Cabale (1999)
42 Thomas "Tom" Jolly
1983 Wiz-War (1983), Diskwars (1999), Cave Troll (2002), The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire (2016), Battle for Rokugan (2017)
43 Harry Grant Rowland w 1983 Empires in Arms (1983), World in Flames (1985), 7 Ages (2004)
53 Serge Laget
1984 Le Gang des Traction Avant (1984), Mystery of the Abbey (1995), Mare Nostrum (2003), Shadows over Camelot (2005), Ad Astra (2009), Nidavellir (2020)
44 Wolfgang Kramer
1985 Wildlife adventure (1985), Forum Romanum (1988), El Grande (1995), Tikal (1999), Torres (1999), Java (2000), Princes of Florence (2000), Mexica (2002), Raja (2004), Palaces of Carrara (2012), Nauticus (2013)
46 Bernd Brunnhofer
1985 Greyhounds (1985), Saint Petersburg (2004) and Stone Age (2008) under the pen name of Michael Tummelhofer, Pantheon (2011)
49 Gérard Mathieu
1985 SuperGang (1985), Full Metal Planète (1988), Les Dessous de la ville (1990)
51 Don Greenwood w 1985 Advanced Squad Leader (1985), The Republic of Rome (1990), Breakout: Normandy (1992), Age of Renaissance (1996)
52 Claude Leroy a 1985 Gygès (1985), Mana (1987)
45 Max Jürgen Kobbert
1986 Labyrinth (1986), Master Labyrinth (1991)
47 Karl-Heinz Schmiel
1986 co-founder of Hans im Glück with Bernd Brunnhofer ; Die Macher (1986), A la carte (1989), Extrablatt (1991), Was sticht? (1993), Tribune: Primus Inter Pares (2007)
50 Urs Hostettler
1986 Kremlin (1986), Tichu (1991), Anno Domini (1998)
55 Jervis Johnson
1986 Blood Bowl (1986), Necromunda (1995)
48 Richard Borg
1987 Liars Dice (1987), Battle Cry (2000), Wyatt Earp (2001), Memoir '44 (2004), Commands & Colors: Ancients (2006), BattleLore (2006)
63 Klaus Zoch
1987 Bausack (1987), Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke (1998), Zapp Zerapp (2000), Neue Heimat (2007)
54 Richard Launius
1987 Arkham Horror (1987-2005-2018), Defenders of the Realm (2010), Elder Sign (2011)
57 Jean Poël (du)
1987 Ben Hur (1987), Mare Mediterraneum (1989), Wettstreit der Baumeister (1994), Carabande aka PitchCar (1995), Aeronautika (1996)
58 Wolfgang Riedesser
1989 Ave Caesar (1989), Ausgebremst (1993)
59 Stephen Baker
1989 HeroQuest (1989), Space Crusade (1990), Battle Masters (1992), Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie (2004)
61 Andrew J. Looney a 1989 Icehouse (1989), Fluxx (1997), Chrononauts (2000), Zendo (2001)
56 Klaus Teuber
1990 Adel Verpflichtet (1990), Drunter und Drüber (1991), Catan (1995), Entdecker (1996), Löwenherz (1997)
62 Frank Nestel
1990 Igel Ärgern (1990), Mü & More (1995), Primordial Soup (1997), Frank's Zoo (1999), Urland (2001)
66 Bruno Faidutti
1990 anti-astrology activist (p.c.) ; Alpages: La guerre des moutons (1990), Tempête sur l'Echiquier (1991), Vallée des Mammouths (1991), Citadelles (2000)
60 Reiner Walter Knizia
1992 Modern Art (1992), Medici (1995), Tigris & Euphrates (1997), Samurai (1998), Through the Desert (1998), Ra (1999), Schotten Totten (1999), Lost Cities (1999), Taj Mahal (2000), Amun-Re (2003), The Quest for El Dorado (2017)
64 Alan Richard Moon
1992 Elfenroads (1992), Elfenland (1998), Union Pacific (1999), Santa Fe Rails (2001), San Marco (2001), Capitol (2001), New England (2003), Ticket to Ride (2004), Oasis (2004)
75 Dirk Henn
1992 The Rose King (1992), Timbuktu (1993), Show Manager (1996), Wallenstein (2002), Alhambra (2003), Shogun (2006)
80 Rüdiger Dorn
1992 Cameo (1992), Genoa (2001), Goa (2004), Louis XIV (2005), Arkadia (2006), Dragonheart (2010), Istanbul (2014), Karuba (2015)
67 Mark Herman w 1993 We the People (1993), For the People (1998), Empire of the Sun (2005), Washington's War (2010), Churchill (2015)
78 Richard Channing Garfield
1993 Magic: The Gathering (1993), RoboRally (1994), Netrunner (1996), King of Tokyo (2011), Android: Netrunner (2012), Bunny Kingdom (2017)
79 Andy Chambers
1993 Warhammer 40,000: 2nd-3rd-4th Eds. (1993-2004), Necromunda (1995), Space Hulk 2nd Ed. (1996), Blood Red Skies (2017)
65 Michael Sohre
1994 Cubicado (1994), Tri-Ba-Lance (1995), Fire (1996)
68 Thomas "Tom" Lehmann
1994 Age of Exploration (1994), 1846: The Race for the Midwest (2005), Race for the Galaxy (2007), Roll for the Galaxy (2014), Res Arcana (2019)
77 Andreas Seyfarth
1994 Manhattan (1994), Puerto Rico (2002), San Juan (2004), Thurn and Taxis (2006)
72 Niek Neuwahl a 1995 Aztec (1995), Pitagoras (1996), Ta Yü (1999)
69 Richard Breese
1995 Keywood (1995), Keydom (1998), Morgenland (2000), Keythedral (2002), Reef Encounter (2004), Key Market (2010), Keyflower (2012), Keyper (2017), Key Flow (2018)
70 Dominique Ehrhard
1995 painter and designer of Condottiere (1995), Serenissima aka Méditerranée (1996), Marrakech (2007), Sylla (2008), Boomerang (2010), Panic Lab (2012)
71 Stefan H. Dorra
1995 Linie 1 (1995), Yucata (1996), MarraCash (1996), For Sale (1997), Land Unter (1997), Nyet! (1997), Medina (2001), Die Sieben Siegel (2003), Kreta (2005)
76 Günter Cornett a 1995 The Bottle Imp (1995), Kahuna (1998), Autoscooter (1999), Kanaloa (2002), Penguin aka Hey, That's My Fish! (2003) with Alvydas Jakeliunas, Chinagold (2004)
81 Charles Vasey w 1995 The Flowers of the Forest (1995), Chariot Lords (1999), Unhappy King Charles (2008)
73 Kris Burm a 1996 the master of abstract games: Gipf (1996), Zèrtz (1999), Elcanto (2000), Dvonn (2001), Yinsh (2003), Pünct (2005), Tzaar (2007), Lyngk (2017)
74 Mark Simonitch w 1996 Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage (1996), Successors (1997-2008)
82 James Ernest
1996 Kill Doctor Lucky (1996), Brawl (1999), Pirates of the Spanish Main (2004), Lords of Vegas (2010), Tak (2017)
83 Jacques Zeimet
1996 Bamboleo (1996), Hamsterrolle (2000), Ghost Blitz (2010)
100 Uwe Rosenberg
1997 Bohnanza (1997), Mamma Mia (1998), Agricola (2007), Le Havre (2008), Loyang (2009), Merkator (2010), Ora et Labora (2011), Glass Road (2013), Caverna (2013), Patchwork (2014), Fields of Arle (2014), A Feast for Odin (2016)
101 Christian Thomas Petersen
1997 Twilight Imperium (1997-2000-05-17), Battlemist (1998), A Game of Thrones (2003), Star Wars: Armada (2015)
89 Frédéric Bey w 1998 the French maestro of wargames: Rivoli 1797 (1998), Au fil de l'épée (2002), Aspern-Essling 1809 (2009), Fuentes de Onoro 1811 (2011)
90 Martin Wallace
1998 Liberté (1998), Volldampf (2001), Age of Steam (2002), Struggle of Empires (2004), Railways of the World (2005), Brass (2007), Steam (2009), God's Playground (2009), London (2010), A Few Acres of Snow (2011), Brass: Birmingham (2018)
102 Reinhard Staupe
1998 Colorado County (1998), Basari (1998), Edel, Stein & Reich (2003), Havana (2009), 7 Steps (2014)
103 Corné Moorsel (van)
1998 Nasca (1998), Isi (1999), Morisi (2000), StreetSoccer (2002), Logistico (2003), Factory Fun (2006), Habitats (2016), Nova Luna (2019)
105 Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
1998 Verräter (1998), Meuterer (2000), Attika (2003), Taluva (2006)
85 Franz-Benno Delonge
1999 Big City (1999), TransAmerica (2001), Dos Rios (2004), Manila (2005), Container (2007)
86 Ted Samuel Raicer w 1999 Paths of Glory (1999), Reds! The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 (2001), World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin (2002), The Dark Valley (2013)
87 Philippe Keyaerts
1999 Vinci (1999), Evo (2001), Small World (2009), Olympos (2011), Twin Tin Bots (2013)
106 Joris Wiersinga
1999 Bus (1999), Roads & Boats (1999), Ur: 1830 BC (2001), Antiquity (2004), Indonesia (2005), Greed Incorporated (2009), The Great Zimbabwe (2012), Food Chain Magnate (2015) with Jeroen Doumen
107 Jeroen Doumen
1999 Bus (1999), Roads & Boats (1999), Ur: 1830 BC (2001), Antiquity (2004), Indonesia (2005), Greed Incorporated (2009), The Great Zimbabwe (2012), Food Chain Magnate (2015) with Joris Wiersinga
84 Martin Schlegel
2000 M (2000), Aqua Romana (2005), Bangkok Klongs (2010), Atacama (2013), Adiós Calavera (2017)
88 John Yianni a 2000 Hive (2000), Army of Frogs (2007), Tatsu (2016)
92 Bernard Tavitian a 2000 Blokus (2000), Blokus Trigon (2006)
93 Roberto Fraga
2000 French designer: Les Dragons du Mékong aka River Dragons (2000), Dancing Eggs (2003), Captain Sonar (2016)
94 Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
2000 Carcassonne (2000), Carcassonne: The Castle (2003), The Downfall of Pompeii (2004), Rapa Nui (2011)
95 Leo Colovini
2000 Cartagena (2000), Carolus Magnus (2000), Vabanque (2001), Clans (2002), The Bridges of Shangri-La (2003), Go West (2005), Masons (2006)
96 Michael Schacht
2000 Web of Power (2000), Serengeti (2001), Dschunke (2002), Magna Grecia (2003), Richelieu (2003), Coloretto (2003), Felinia (2010)
108 Robert "Rob" Daviau
2000 Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit (2000), Betrayal at House on the Hill (2004), Heroscape Master Set (2004), Risk Legacy (2011), Pandemic Legacy 1 (2015), Pandemic Legacy 2 (2017), Cthulhu: Death May Die (2019)
91 Philippe Pallières (des)
2001 Les Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux (2001), La Guerre des Moutons (2002), Shazamm (2003)
97 Günter Burkhardt
2001 Kupferkessel Co. (2001), Maori (2009), Seeland (2010), Ulm (2016)
98 Volko Ruhnke w 2001 Wilderness War (2001), Labyrinth: The War on Terror (2010), Andean Abyss (2012), Cuba Libre (2013), A Distant Plain (2013), Fire in the Lake (2014), Falling Sky (2016), Pendragon (2017)
99 Francesco Nepitello
2001 X-Bugs (2001) with Marco Maggi, War of the Ring (2004), War of the Ring: 2nd Ed (2012) and The Battle of Five Armies (2014) also with Roberto di Meglio
104 Friedemann Friese
2001 Funkenschlag (2001), Fearsome Floors (2003), Power Grid (2004), Mégawatts (2008), Friday (2011), Faiyum (2020)
109 Spartaco Albertarelli
2002 Dice Run (2002), Coyote (2003), Dust (2007), VektoRace (2018)
113 Cameron Bolitho Browne a 2002 Akron (2002), Margo (2006), Yavalath (2007) ; author of "Connection Games" (Wellesley, MA, 2005)
131 Régis Bonnessée
2002 Himalaya (2002), Seasons (2012), Dice Forge (2017)
112 Glenn Drover
2003 Age of Mythology (2003), Conquest of the Empire (2005), Railways of the World (2005), Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery (2007), Raccoon Tycoon (2018)
114 Andreas Steding
2003 Kogge (2003), Hansa Teutonica (2009), Firenze (2010), Norenberc (2010), Gùgōng (2018)
132 Kevin Wilson
2003 A Game of Thrones (2003), Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2005), Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game (2010)
110 Bruno Cathala
2004 Drôles de Zèbres (2004), Mission: Red Planet (2005), Mr. Jack (2006), Jamaica (2007), Cyclades (2009), 7 Wonders (2010), Five Tribes (2014), Kingdomino (2016), Yamataï (2017)
116 Roberto Meglio (di)
2004 War of the Ring (2004), War of the Ring: 2nd Ed (2012), The Battle of Five Armies (2014) with Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi
117 Christophe Boelinger
2004 Dungeon Twister (2004), Earth Reborn (2010), Sarena (2011), Archipelago (2012), Living Planet (2019)
122 Jens Drögemüller
2004 The Scepter of Zavandor (2004), and with Helge Ostertag: Terra Mystica (2012) and Gaia Project (2017)
123 Richard Sivél w 2004 Friedrich (2004), Maria (2009), Wir sind das Volk (2014)
126 Emanuele Ornella
2004 Oltre Mare (2004), Il Principe (2005), Hermagor (2006), Assyria (2009), Pioneers (2017)
133 Frank Czarnetzki
2004 graphic designer and game designer: Master Thieves (2004), Black Elephant (2004), Marquis (2005), Gangster (2006), Fragile (2006)
111 Bowen "Rachel" Simmons w 2005 Bonaparte at Marengo (2005), Napoleon's Triumph (2007), The Guns of Gettysburg (2013)
118 Walther "Mac" Gerdts
2005 Antike (2005), Imperial (2006), Hamburgum (2007), The Princes of Machu Picchu (2008), Navegador (2010), Antike Duellum (2012), Concordia (2013)
128 Jason Matthews w 2005 Twilight Struggle (2005), 1960: The Making of the President (2007), 1989: Dawn of Freedom (2012), Imperial Struggle (2020)
134 William Attia
2005 Caylus (2005), Spyrium (2013)
135 Carl Chudyk
2005 Glory to Rome (2005), Innovation (2010), Red7 (2014)
115 Mark Steere a 2006 Cephalopod (2006), Dipole (2007), Atoll (2008), Monkey Queen (2011)
119 Michael Rieneck
2006 The Pillars of the Earth (2006), Palastgeflüster (2007), Cuba (2007) and World Without End (2009) with Stefan Stadler, Santiago de Cuba (2011), Merlin (2017)
120 Vladimír "Vlaada" Chvátil
2006 Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization (2006), Galaxy Trucker (2007), Space Alert (2008), Dungeon Lords (2009), Mage Knight Board Game (2011), Dungeon Petz (2011), Tash-Kalar (2013), TTA: A New Story of Civilization (2015), Codenames (2015)
124 Chad Erik Jensen w 2006 Combat Commander: Europe (2006), Combat Commander: Pacific (2008), Dominant Species (2010)
127 Sébastien Pauchon
2006 pool player, author of a book on billiards (2001), designer of Yspahan (2006), Jamaica (2007), Metropolys (2008), Jaipur (2009), Corto (2013)
136 Virginio Gigli
2006 Leonardo da Vinci (2006), Egizia (2009), Lorenzo il Magnifico (2016), Coimbra (2018) and Terramara (2019) with Flaminia Brasini, Grand Austria Hotel (2015)
137 Edward "Ed" Beach w 2006 Here I Stand (2006), Virgin Queen (2012), also designer of video game Civilization VI
138 Michal Oracz
2006 Neuroshima Hex (2006), This War of Mine (2017), Etherfields (2020)
139 Sebastian Bleasdale
2006 On the Underground (2006), Keyflower (2012), Black Fleet (2014), Lemminge (2014), Key Flow (2018)
121 Michael Kiesling
2007 Vikings (2007), Cavum (2008), Artus (2011), Coal Baron (2013), Porta Nigra (2015), Heaven & Ale (2017), Azul (2017) and many others with Wolfgang Kramer
125 Phil Eklund
2007 Origins: How We Became Human (2007), High Frontier (2010), Pax Porfiriana (2012), Neanderthal (2015), Pax Pamir (2015), Pax Renaissance (2016), Pax Emancipation (2018)
129 Andrea Chiarvesio
2007 Kingsburg (2007), Hyperborea (2014), Signorie (2015)
130 Stefan Feld
2007 Year of Dragon (2007), Macao (2009), Castles of Burgundy (2011), Trajan (2011), Bora Bora (2013), Bruges (2013), Amerigo (2013), Oracle of Delphi (2016), Carpe Diem (2018), Bonfire (2020)
144 Vladimír Suchý
2007 League of Six (2007), Shipyard (2009), Last Will (2011), The Prodigals Club (2015), Pulsar 2849 (2017), Underwater Cities (2018), Praga Caput Regni (2020)
141 Bernd Eisenstein
2008 Pack & Stack (2008), Alea Iacta Est (2009), Peloponnes (2009), PAX (2011), Pandoria (2018)
142 Donald X. Vaccarino
2008 Dominion (2008), Dominion: Intrigue (2009), Kingdom Builder (2011)
147 Matt Leacock
2008 Pandemic (2008), Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age (2008), Forbidden Desert (2013), Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015)
151 Inka Brand
2008 A Castle for All Seasons (2008), Village (2011), Murano (2014), Exit (2016), Rajas of the Ganges (2017), Rise of Queensdale (2018) all with Markus Brand
152 Markus Brand
2008 A Castle for All Seasons (2008), Village (2011), Murano (2014), Exit (2016), Rajas of the Ganges (2017), Rise of Queensdale (2018) all with Inka Brand
155 Corey Konieczka
2008 Battlestar Galactica (2008), Runewars (2010), Eldritch Horror (2013), Star Wars: Imperial Assault (2014), Star Wars: Rebellion (2016)
159 Phil Walker-Harding
2008 Cannonball Colony (2008), Sushi Go! (2013), Cacao (2015), Imhotep (2016), Bärenpark (2017), Gizmos (2018), Imhotep: The Duel (2018)
160 Antoine Bauza
2008 Ghost Stories (2008), 7 Wonders (2010), Hanabi (2010), Takenoko (2011), 7 Wonders Duel (2015)
146 Mike Elliott
2009 Thunderstone (2009), Battle Spirits: Trading Card Game (2009), Quarriors (2011), Dice Masters (2014), also designer of expansions for Magic (1993)
148 Xavier Georges
2009 Carson City (2009), Ginkgopolis (2012), also Troyes (2010), Tournay (2011) and Black Angel (2019) with Sébastien Dujardin and Alain Orban
149 Néstor Romeral Andrés a 2009 Adaptoid (2009), Onager (2012), Quantum Leap (2013), Pent-Up (2014), Flink (2016), Ni-Ju (2016), Greener (2017)
150 Eric M. Lang
2009 Chaos in the Old World (2009), Quarriors (2011), Arcadia Quest (2014), Blood Rage (2015), The Godfather: Corleone's Empire (2017), Rising Sun (2018)
153 Philip Dubarry
2009 Revolution (2009), Courtier (2012), Kingdom of Solomon (2012), Spirits of the Rice Paddy (2015), Black Orchestra (2016)
154 Ignacy Trzewiczek
2009 Stronghold (2009), Prêt-à-Porter (2010), The New Era (2011), Robinson Crusoe (2012), Imperial Settlers (2014), Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game (2018)
156 Paolo Mori
2009 Vasco da Gama (2009), Libertalia (2012), Augustus (2013), Dogs of War (2014), Ethnos (2017)
176 Seiji Kanai
2009 Chronicle (2009), Love Letter (2012), Unicornus Knights (2016)
140 Vital Lacerda
2010 Vinhos (2010), CO2 (2012), Kanban (2014), The Gallerist (2015), Lisboa (2017), Escape Plan (2019), On Mars (2020)
143 Dieter Stein a 2010 Volo (2010), Mixtour (2011), Fendo (2014), Tintas (2016), Urbino (2017)
145 Matthias Cramer
2010 Glen More (2010), Lancaster (2011), Helvetia (2011), Rococo (2013), Kraftwagen (2015), Glen More II: Chronicles (2019), Watergate (2019)
157 Shadi Torbey
2010 Belgian opera bass singer, designer of Onirim (2010), Sylvion (2015), Aerion (2019)
158 Nick Bentley a 2010 Catchup (2010), Stinker (2015), Circle of Life (2015), Blooms (2018), Oceans (2020)
161 Christian Marcussen
2010 Danish designer: Merchants & Marauders (2010), Clash of Cultures (2012)
162 Leonhard "Lonny" Orgler
2010 Poseidon (2010) and Russian Railroads (2013) with Helmut Ohley, 18CZ (2017)
186 Sébastien Dujardin
2010 Troyes (2010), Tournay (2011) and Black Angel (2019) with Xavier Georges and Alain Orban, Deus (2014), Solenia (2018)
163 Jacob Fryxelius
2011 Space Station (2011), Terraforming Mars (2016), After The Virus (2017)
164 Ted Alspach
2012 Suburbia (2012), Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2014)
167 Simone Luciani
2012 Tzolk'in (2012), The Voyages of Marco Polo (2015), Council of 4 (2015), Grand Austria Hotel (2015), Lorenzo il Magnifico (2016), Newton (2018), Barrage (2019)
172 Ryan Laukat
2012 Empires of the Void (2012), Above and Below (2015), Islebound (2016), Near and Far (2017)
173 Daniele Tascini
2012 Tzolk'in (2012), The Voyages of Marco Polo (2015), Council of 4 (2015), Teotihuacan: City of Gods (2018), Trismegistus (2019), Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun (2020)
174 Hisashi Hayashi
2012 Trains (2012), Trains: Rising Sun (2014), Yokohama (2016)
175 Adam Carlson
2012 Hoplomachus: The Lost Cities (2012), Too Many Bones (2017), Too Many Bones: Undertow (2018), Cloudspire (2019)
177 Jerry Hawthorne
2012 Mice and Mystics (2012), Stuffed Fables (2018), Aftermath (2019)
168 Ludovic Roudy
2013 8 Masters' Revenge (2013), The 7th Continent (2017), Just One (2018) and The 7th Citadel (2022) with Bruno Sautter
169 Cédrick Chaboussit
2013 Lewis & Clark (2013), Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (2015)
170 Paulo Soledade
2013 Madeira (2013), Panamax (2014) and Nippon (2015) with Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro
178 Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro
2013 Madeira (2013), Panamax (2014) and Nippon (2015) with Paulo Soledade
180 Jamey Stegmaier
2013 Viticulture (2013), Euphoria (2013), Scythe (2016), Charterstone (2017), Tapestry (2019)
165 Reiner Stockhausen
2014 Orléans (2014), Altiplano (2017)
166 Pierluca Zizzi
2014 Hyperborea (2014), Signorie (2015), Barbarians: The Invasion (2018), Tang Garden (2020)
171 Tim Fowers
2014 video game designer, and designer of Paperback (2014) and Burgle Bros. (2015)
179 Juma Al-JouJou
2014 German designer: Green Deal (2014), Clans of Caledonia (2017)
181 Scott Almes
2014 Tiny Epic Kingdoms (2014), Tiny Epic Galaxies (2015), Heroes of Land, Air & Sea (2018)
182 Marco Canetta
2014 ZhanGuo (2014) and Railroad Revolution (2016) with Stefania Niccolini
183 Jonathan Gilmour
2014 Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game (2014), Dinosaur Island (2017), Path of Light and Shadow (2017)
184 Stefan Risthaus
2014 Arkwright (2014), Gentes (2017)
185 Andreas Odendahl
2014 La Granja (2014) and Solarius Mission (2016) with Michael Keller, Cooper Island (2019)
187 Alexander Pfister
2015 Mombasa (2015), Isle of Skye (2015), Broom Service (2015), Great Western Trail (2016), Blackout: Hong Kong (2018), Maracaibo (2019)
188 Yukinori "Emerson" Matsuuchi
2015 Specter Ops (2015), Century: Spice Road (2017), Reef (2018)
190 Kristian Roald Amundsen Østby
2015 Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2012), Automania (2015) and Santa Maria (2017), The Magnificent (2019) and Trails of Tucana (2019) with Eilif Svensson
192 Isaac Childres
2015 Forge War (2015), Gloomhaven (2017), Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion (2020)
194 Viktor Péter
2015 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015), Anachrony (2017) and Cerebria: The Inside World (2018) with Richard Amann
195 Cole Wehrle
2015 Pax Pamir (2015), John Company (2017), Root (2018), Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile (2021)
196 Matthew Dunstan
2015 Elysium (2015), Pioneer Days (2017), Monumental (2020)
197 Shem Phillips
2015 Raiders of the North Sea (2015), Explorers of the North Sea (2016), Architects of the West Kingdom (2018), Paladins of the West Kingdom (2019), Viscounts of the West Kingdom (2020), Raiders of Scythia (2020)
189 Keith Matejka
2016 Roll Player (2016), Herbaceous (2017), Skulk Hollow (2019)
198 David Turczi
2016 specialist of solo modes, designer of Days of Ire: Budapest 1956 (2016), Anachrony (2017), and with Daniele Tascini : Tekhenu (2020) and Tawantinsuyu (2020)
193 Wolfgang Warsch
2018 The Quacks of Quedlinburg (2018), The Mind (2018), That's Pretty Clever! (2018), The Taverns of Tiefenthal (2019)
199 David Thompson
2018 Pavlov's House (2018), and with Trevor Benjamin: War Chest (2018) and Undaunted: Normandy (2019)
191 Martino Chiacchiera
2018 Barbarians: The Invasion (2018), Mysthea (2019), Icaion (2020)
200 Elizabeth Hargrave
2019 Wingspan (2019), Mariposas (2020)


BOARD GAME DESIGNERS ASTRO PROJECT
Birth Data of 200 successful Designers

http://cura.free.fr/2020/bgdesignersap.html
Nice, 16-01-2021 ; updated 25-02-2021
© C.U.R.A., 2021, Dr. Patrice Guinard