Game designer

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 technician to become a full-time game designer in 1999. As of 2007, he lives in Darmstadt with his wife Claudia. They have two sons, Guido and Benny.

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 games, he realized that games fell into three categories: number games like dice and bingo; move games such as chess and checkers; and word games like anagrams. Butts decided to create a game that utilized both chance and skill by combining...

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 also invented Space Blast, a small space battle game. Keyaerts is also active in the organisation of board game conventions in Belgium.

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 game. He is also a psychology professor and author of The Dark Menace of the Universe, a memoir and treatise on creativity. Filsinger was born Savvos Christos Tsagarakis, a descendant of Greek immigrants. His grandfather Tom Tsoulis and family...

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 since 1979. He runs an annual 18XX convention, the Chattanooga Rail Game Challenge, in January or February of each year. The event draws approximately 50 players, including many from outside the United States. He has published four 18XX games: He...

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. He also designed the microgame Olympica (1978) and Holy War (1979). Chaosium published Lords of the Middle Sea (1978), while GDW published Bloodtree Rebellion (1979). However, his relationship with Chaosium has proved the most enduring, and there...

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.

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 the game published by SJ Games, such as Car Wars, GURPS, Munchkin and many others. The company won a case against the US Secret Service after a raid of their offices in 1990 (see: Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service). The...

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. Published games include: His latest game Tzaar will be available from early 2008, but it will be presold during the game convention Spiel 2007 in Essen, Germany. All his published games are abstract, except Dicemaster, which is a collectible dice game.

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 are the construction and operation of railroad, and the rise and fall of ancient civilization. He has developed a reputation for blending elegant European style game mechanics with the strong themes that are more typical of American style games. Many...

Helmut Ohley has developed several 18XX games. He and Lonny Orgler formed Double-O Games to publish future 18XX titles. Ohley, HelmutOhley, Helmut

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, known as "The Landlord's Game", popular with friends while living in Brentwood, Maryland, and sought her first patent on it while living there. On March 23, 1903, Magie applied to the US Patent Office for a patent on her board game, which was...

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 Avalon Hill board game ''Squad Leader'' in 1977. Hill founded Conflict Games Company in the late 1960s and owned a hobby shop, The Scale, in Lafayette, Indiana, for several years. Among his many titles were Verdun, Kasserine Pass, Overlord, Battle For...

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 the International Federation of Wargamers as a teenager. At the invitation of Gygax, he joined TSR, Inc. in 1976, for whom he wrote an introductory Dungeons and Dragons module called In Search of the Unknown (1979). Since it was included with the...

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 the imprint Rostherne Games. His games have been published worldwide with his greatest successes in Germany. Most use transportation as a theme but he has also designed abstract games, chess variants and a variety of race games. Watts, David G.Watts...