Martin Schlegel (game designer)

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Martin Schlegel, 2014

Martin Schlegel (born September 20, 1946 in Ahlen ) is a German game designer and statistician .

Life

The son of a small manufacturer grew up in the Münsterland district town of Ahlen, but graduated from high school in the neighboring town of Hamm, as only that had a mathematical and scientific high school. Even as a teenager he was a passionate chess player . In 1966 he became champion with the youth team of his chess club in North Rhine-Westphalia. After graduating from high school in 1967, he studied business administration at the University of Münster . With his degree in business administration in 1973, he became a research assistant at the city administration of Hagen in the department for urban research and statistics . From 1983 until he retired in 2004, he was chief officer there.

From 2001 to 2014 he worked as an honorary editor-in-chief of the magazine “Stadtforschung und Statistik”, the half-yearly magazine of the Association of German Urban Statisticians .

Schlegel has been developing his own board games since 1990. The game With Mose through the desert , developed together with his wife, a religious educator, was his first board game in 1996 that he was able to publish with a publisher. The game mechanics came from him, the theme design from her. From then on, further publications followed at short intervals. According to its own information, there were 42 published author's games that Schlegel developed by November 2014, including magazine publications and advertising games. Quite a few of these came out in boxes from game publishers.

His game West of Africa , which was published by ADC Blackfire Entertainment at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 2016 , previously won first place at the 2015 Hippodice authors' competition in Herne. In 2017, his game Luther - the game about the life of the reformer - was published by Kosmos-Verlag together with his wife Erika Martin Luther.

Schlegel is married and lives in Hagen. He can often be found at the weekly games meeting in the AllerWeltHaus . He is also a member of the game designers ' guild .

approach

The starting point for Martin Schlegel's game studio is always the mechanism of a game. A topic is then found later, sometimes only in cooperation with the publishing company. Such was Aqua Romana thematically first (2000) an adventure game around Krokodilefangen, then an economic game to oil pipelines before the Roman aqueducts stake mechanism gave a final new design / face (2005). It often takes around a year to work on a game prototype until it is ready for publication. The game designer finds it completely normal to pursue five projects at the same time.

The basic philosophy of the game developer Schlegel is: short rules. The head should not be filled with rules. Alex Randolph's principle also applies to him : "A game is only finished when I cannot simplify it any further."

Awards

  • 2001 Hekla, 1st place at the Hippodice authors' competition (at the time under the title DinxX)
  • 2005: Aqua Romana , nomination for the game of the year 2006.
  • 2015: West of Africa , 1st place in the Hippodice authors' competition 2015 (at the time under the working title Lancelotto Malocello )

Ludography (without advertising games)

  • 1996 With Mose through the desert , Uljö (together with Erika Schlegel)
  • 1998 Nuts , Piatnik
  • 1998 Damn it and locked up , Piatnik
  • 2000 M , Grünspan / Abacus games
  • 2002 Hekla , wooden island games
  • 2005 Aqua Romana , Queen Games
  • 2005 Cugolo , wooden island
  • 2006 John Silver , Eggertspiele
  • 2006 Top or Flop , Argentum Verlag
  • 2009 Darwinci , LudoArt, Heidelberger Spieleverlag
  • 2010 Key West , game idea publisher
  • 2010 Bangkok Klongs , dlp-games
  • 2010 fairground , eggertspiele, (joint work of 10 authors)
  • 2013 Atacama , mosquito games
  • 2013 Sauschwer , Zoch Verlag (together with Andrea Meyer)
  • 2014 Takamatsu , mosquito games
  • 2014 4ty4 , Spellenvereniging Ducosim
  • 2015 Sirens in sight , Smiling Monster Games
  • 2016 West of Africa , ADC Blackfire Entertainment
  • 2016 Oranjepolder , Spellenvereniging Ducosim
  • 2016 Luther: Das Spiel (together with Erika Schlegel), KOSMOS
  • 2017 No frills! Catholic rural youth movement in the Archdiocese of Paderborn
  • 2017 Adios Calavera! Mosquito games
  • 2018 CityGang, City of Hagen: Young, old Hagen
  • 2019 Wolfheze, Spellenvereniging Ducosim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biographical information on Martin Schlegel , profile of the game designer at Verlag Mücke Spiele, accessed November 9, 2014
  2. ^ Luding-Info zu West of Africa , accessed on April 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Schlegel's profile at the game designers guild ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spieleautorenzunft.de
  4. ^ "Sirens in sight" , description
personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Awls