Kris Burm

Kris Burm

Kris Burm (* 1957 in Antwerp , Belgium ) is a Belgian game designer . He specializes in reinventing abstract strategy games .

In 1991 he published his first game Invers , which was on the shortlist for game of the year that same year . The game series Gipf-Projekt is his most successful project; the games have received international awards. He has lived in Schilde near Antwerp with his four children since 2005 .

Awards

game of the year

• Inverse : shortlist 1991
• Gipf : Shortlist 1998
• Zèrtz : Shortlist 2000
• Dvonn : Selection list 2002
• Yinsh : Recommended List 2004
• Tzaar : List of recommendations 2008

Game of games

• Lyngk : Special Prize for the Game of the Games 2017

International Gamers Award / Gamers Choice Awards

• Zèrtz : nominated two-person games 2001
• Dvonn : Winner two-person games 2002
• Yinsh : 2004 two-person games nominated
• Pünct : nominated two-person games 2006
• Tzaar : nominated two-person games 2008

Select cafeteria

• Zèrtz : 2000
• Dvonn : 2002
• Yinsh : 2004

Dutch game award

• Dvonn : nominated in 2002
• Yinsh : nominated in 2004
• Tzaar : nominated in 2008

Games Magazine

• Dvonn : Game of the Year 2003
• Tzaar : Game of the Year 2009

innoSPIEL

• LYNGK : nominated in 2017

Ludography

• 1991: Invers , Peri Games
• 1993: Oxford , Peri Games
• 1994: Balanx , Fun Connection
• 1995: Tashkent Domino (3x3), Peri Games
• 1995: Flix , Milton Bradley
• 1995: Orient , Happy World
• 1996: Quads , GiGamic , International Games
• 1997: Tashkent Domino (5x5) , Peri Games
• 1997: Dicemaster , Iron Crown Enterprises
• 1997: Bi-Litaire , Peri Games
• 1997: Batik , GiGamic
• 1997: Gipf , Don & Co , Schmidt Spiele ( Gipf Project Game 1)
• 1999: Tamsk , Schmidt Spiele (Gipf-Projekt Spiel 2)
• 2000: Zèrtz , Schmidt Spiele, Rio Grande Games , Don & Co (Gipf-Projekt Spiel 3)
• 2001: Elcanto , HiKu games
• 2001: Dvonn , Don & Co, Rio Grande Games (Gipf-Projekt Spiel 4)
• 2002: Batik Kid , GiGamic
• 2003: Yinsh , Don & Co, Rio Grande Games (Gipf-Projekt Spiel 5)
• 2004: Quads , GiGamic
• 2005: Pünct , Don & Co (Gipf project game 6)
• 2007: Tzaar , Smart Games (replaced Tamsk as the second game of the Gipf project)
• 2008: Color Code , Smart Games

Web links

Commons : Kris Burm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Kris Burm
• Homepage of Kris Burm (Dutch)
• Kris Burm in the Luding games database
• Kris Burm in the games database BoardGameGeek (English)
• Interview at www.reich-der-spiele.de: Part 1 , Part 2