Eric M. Lang

Eric M. Lang, 2014

Eric M. Lang (born 1972 ) is a Canadian game author who specializes primarily in trading card and fantasy games. Since 2017 he has worked as head of game development for the American game publisher CMON (formerly Cool Mini or Not).

biography

Eric M. Lang began his professional career as a test player for FASA Corporation before releasing his first own games. He published his first game Mystick in 2000, after which he published several games including Fantasy Flight Games , WizKids and CMON. Several of his games have won awards, including two Origin Awards in 2002 for his A Game of Thrones: The Card Game . Also Quarriors! , which he developed together with Mike Elliott , and Dice Masters were awarded this prize, the latter for a version with heroes of DC Comics ( DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light ) and Marvel Comics ( Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. . X-Men ). In 2015, the game XCOM: The Board Game was awarded the Griffin Scroll of the Austrian Game of Games award and in the following year 2016 the Viking board game Blood Rage was included on the recommendation list of the Kennerspiel des Jahres and nominated for the Gamers Choice Award. In 2016 Lang received the Diana Jones Award "for Excellence in Gaming".

Since April 2017, Eric M. Lang has been the director of game development ("Director of Game Design") at the American game publisher CMON.

Ludography (selection)

• Mystick: Domination (2000)
• The Iron Throne: Das Kartenspiel ( A Game of Thrones: The Card Game ) (2002)
• Frenzy (2003)
• Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2004)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Decision ( Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation ; reworking of the board game by Reiner Knizia , 2005)
• Dilbert: The Board Game (2006)
• Fantasía SA (2008)
• Chaos in the Old World ( Chaos in the Old World , 2009)
• Warhammer: Invasion (2009)
• Midgard (2009)
• Quarriors! (with Mike Elliott , 2011)
• Star Wars: The Card Game (2012)
• Trains and Stations (2013)
• Arcadia Quest (2014)
• Dice Masters (with Mike Elliott, 2014 to date)
• Kaosball: The Fantasy Sport of Total Domination (2014)
• Warhammer 40K: Conquest (2014)
• Blood Rage (2015)
• XCOM: The Board Game ( XCOM: The Board Game , 2015)
• Bloodborne: The Card Game (2016)
• Duelyst (2016)
• The Others (2016)
• Ancestree (2017)
• Secrets (2017)
• The Godfather: Empire Corleone ( The Godfather: Corleone's Empire , 2017)
• A Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game (2018)
• Rising Sun (2018)
• Munchkin Collectible Card Game (with Kevin Wilson, 2018)
• Siege of the Citadel (2019)
• Starcadia Quest (2019)
• Cthulhu: Death May Die (2019)

Awards

• Expert game of the year
  • Blood Rage : Recommendation 2016
• Game of games
  • XCOM: The Board Game : Griffin Scroll 2015
• Gamers Choice Awards
  • Blood Rage : Nomination for Multiplayer 2016
• Origins Awards
  • DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light : Best Collectible Game 2016
  • Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men : Vanguard Award 2015
  • Quarriors! : Best Family, Party or Children's Game 2013
  • A Game of Thrones: Westros Edition : Best Trading Card Game 2002
  • A Game of Thrones CCG: Ice & Fire Expansion : Best Card Game Expansion 2002

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} Blood Rage on the website of the Spiel des Jahres eV; accessed on June 27, 2018.
2. ^ The 2016 Award on the Diana Jones Award pages ; accessed on June 27, 2018.
3. ↑ Blair Marnell: Eric M. Lang Joins Cool Mini Or Not as New Director of Game Design , Geek & Sundry, March 14, 2017; accessed on June 27, 2018.

Web links

• Official website of Eric M. Lang
• Eric M. Lang in the Luding games database
• Eric M. Lang in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)