Klemens Franz

Klemens Franz (born April 17, 1979 in Graz ) is a game illustrator and game designer from Austria .

Life

After training as a sculptor at the HTBLA Ortweingasse in Graz, attending the technical college course in information management at the FH Joanneum, also in Graz, he moved to Düsseldorf for professional reasons and worked for Ubisoft Germany in the field of product management. His diploma thesis Helen Keller: a digital biography received the "Young Creativity Award" of Net D @ ys 2003 for its practical part. After several part-time jobs as a photographer, copywriter, graphic designer, layouter and illustrator, he was in Kapfenberg as a research assistant at the FH Joanneumworked in the area of new media in the PR & Marketing department and founded atelier198. At atelier198 he has been illustrating board and card games for smaller and larger publishers since 2006. His greatest successes so far are Agricola, Le Havre and Vor den Goren von Loyang. Klemens Franz is married and has several children.

Awards

In 2006, Klemens Franz received the future award for his idea "Spielfunke: Junior - Familie - Senior" as part of the innovation award ceremony of the Styrian Vulkanland.
In 2008 he was made an honorary member of the Vienna Games Academy
In 2014 the children's game "Flizz & Miez", which he illustrated and developed together with Dale Yu and Hanno Girke, was nominated for "Children's Game of the Year". The game also received the award "Game Hits for Children" from the Vienna Games Academy

Illustrations for games (selection)

The dragon tamers of Zavandor , Lookout Games (2006) - a dragon
Agricola , Lookout Games (2007)
Bohnanza Fan Edition , Lookout Games and Amigo (2007)
what's new? , whitecastle / Piatnik (2007)
Neuland , eggertspiele (2008)
Le Havre , Lookout Games (2008)
Euro stay in Vulkanland , BVR-Verlag (2008)
Suleika - The 2 carpets (extension), Wiener Spieleakademie / Zoch Verlag (2008)
At the gates of Loyang , H @ ll-Games (2009)
Agricola: The Bog Farmers , Agricola Extension, Lookout Games (2009)
With hands and feet , whitecastle (2009)
R-Öko , Amigo (2010)
Ranking , Hans im Glück Verlag (2010)
Bangkok Klongs , dlp-games (2010)
Nimble Flies , Franckh Kosmos (2011)
Pergamon , Eggertspiele (2011)
The City , Amigo (2011)
Ora et Labora , Lookout Games (2011)
Milestones , eggertspiele (2012)
Agricola - The farmers and the cattle , Lookout Games (2012)
Caverna - The Cave Builders , Lookout Games (2013)
Palmyra , irongames (2013)
Grog Island , eggertspiele (2014)
Port Royal , Pegasus (2014)
Patchwork , Lookout Games (2014)
Isle of Skye: From Chief to King , Lookout Games (2015)

Working as a game designer

In 2013, three games on the theme of Carrera racetracks were published, for which Klemens Franz was responsible as the author alongside Hanno Girke and Dale Yu.

Editorial activity

In addition to his work as an illustrator, Klemens Franz writes as a freelance editor for Die Presse in the weekly supplement Spectrum, WIN Das Spielejournal and Lotek64 .

Publications

A haptic approach in e-learning. In: Maria Jandl, Jutta Pauschewein (ed.): E-learning at the FH Joanneum. Graz 2005, ISBN 3-901402-46-2 , pp. 108-120.
Parallels of Visual-Morphology in Painting, Child Drawing and Digital Games. In: Kulturotwórcza funkcja greed. Part 2, Poznań 2007, ISBN 978-83-232-1825-8 , pp. 115–122.
Regenerating Narrative Structures in Digital Games. In: Kulturotwórcza funkcja greed. Part 2, Poznań 2007, ISBN 978-83-232-1825-8 , pp. 123-130.
Damn ancestors - A possible genealogy of the first-person shooter Doom until 1993. In: Georg Fuchs (Ed.): Lotek64. No. 26, July 2008.

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Franz, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17th 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz

[1] telier198.com

[2] As of March 2012

[3] telier198.com

[4] Future Prize

[5] Honorary members of the Vienna Games Academy

[6] spieldesjahres.de

[7] spielepreis.at

[8] spark

[9] reich-der-spiele.de