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| Klaus Teuber |
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Person | Settlers of Catan |
Klaus Teuber (born 1952) is a well-known German designer of board game. He has won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a dental...
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| Friedemann Friese | Person | 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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| Alfred Mosher Butts | Person |
Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938.
In the early 1930s, unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts set out to design a board game. After studying existing...
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| Wolfgang Kramer | Person | 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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| Philippe Keyaerts | Game | 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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| Allan B. Calhamer | Person | Diplomacy |
Allan B. Calhamer (born December 7, 1931) 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 book that showed a map of...
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| 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...
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| Redmond A. Simonsen | Person |
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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| 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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| Gary Gygax |
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Person | Dungeons & Dragons |
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) (IPA: ) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) with Dave Arneson in 1974, and co-founding the company...
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| Lynn Willis | Person |
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 classic Godsfire in 1976...
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| Christian Wolf | Game |
Christian Wolf is a designer of board games. He has won the As d'Or for ''Tutankhamen'' and the Kinderspiel des Jahres for ''Klondike''; both were collaborations with Stefanie Rohner.
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| Rüdiger Dorn | Person | 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.
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| Francis Tresham | Person | 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) until its sale to Microprose in 1997. His 1829 game was...
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| Steve Jackson | Person | GURPS |
Steve Jackson (born ~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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| Ken Rolston | Person |
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. He has also done work related pen-and-paper role-playing game, such as Paranoia and...
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| Kris Burm |
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Person | PÜNCT |
Kris Burm is the Belgian designer of the award-winning GIPF series of abstract board game. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and as of 2007, still lives there.
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His latest game Tzaar will be available from early 2008,...
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| Robert Abbott | Person |
Robert Abbott (born 1933) is an American game inventor.
Abbott was an early computer programmer, working with IBM 360 assembly language. He turned his hand to designing games from 1962. He had an affection for striped shirts, admiring their linear...
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| Martin Wallace | Person | Railroad Tycoon |
Martin Wallace is a game designer from Manchester, England. He is the founder and chief designer of Warfrog Games. Wallace is known for designing complex strategy game that depict a variety of historical settings. Two themes he has frequently used...
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| Jim Dunnigan | Person | PanzerBlitz |
James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author and wargame designer currently living in New York City, notable for his matter-of-fact approach to military analysis.
Born in Rockland County, New York, after high school, he volunteered for the...
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| Helmut Ohley | Person |
Helmut Ohley has developed several 18XX games. He and Lonny Orgler formed Double-O Games to publish future 18XX titles.
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| Howard Thompson | Person | 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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| Elizabeth Magie | Person | Monopoly |
Elizabeth "Lizzie" J. Phillips nee Magie (1866–1948) was the inventor of The Landlord's Game, the precursor to Monopoly.
She was born in Canton, Illinois in 1866, and later became a follower of the economist Henry George.
Magie first made the game...
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| Dirk Henn | Person | 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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| John Hill | Person | Hue |
John Hill is a prolific 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 popular...
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| Fletcher Pratt |
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Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was a science fiction and fantasy writer; he was also well-known as a writer on naval history and on the American Civil War.
According to L. Sprague de Camp, Pratt was born near Buffalo, New York, and attended...
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| Mike Carr | Person |
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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| Jerry Taylor |
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Game | Hammer of the Scots |
Jerry Taylor (born 1963 or 1964) is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute where he researches environmental policy. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Iowa.
He is also a board game designer who has...
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| David G. Watts | Person |
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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| Donald Featherstone | Person |
Donald F. Featherstone (b. 20 March 1918) is a British author of books on wargaming and military history. He wrote classic texts on wargaming in the 1960s and 1970s.
Originally a physiotherapist, Featherstone was introduced to miniatures wargaming...
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