Martin Wallace (game designer)
Martin Wallace is a game designer. He is the founder and chief designer of Warfrog Games and lives in Manchester, England. He is known for designing relatively heavy, complex games that depict historical settings, such as the development of railroads, and the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. He has also developed a reputation for blending elegant European style game mechanics with the strong themes that are more typical of American style games. Many of his games feature economic systems, incorporating rules for income, taxation, and debt.
Martin Wallace's most popular game, Age of Steam, is among the top ten rated games at the games website, BoardGameGeek .
Notable games
- Empires of the Ancient World (2000)
- Liberté (2001)
- Volldampf (2001)
- Age of Steam (2002)
- Tyros (2002)
- Princes of the Renaissance (2003)
- Runebound (2004)
- Struggle of Empires (2004)
- Byzantium (2005)
- Tempus (2006)
- Perikles (2006)