Michael Palm (game designer)

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Michael Palm (born December 26, 1971 in Waiblingen near Stuttgart ) is a German game developer and author. He lives near Engen in Hegau.

Life

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Michael Palm is the son of the politician Guntram Palm . In 1991 he began studying law at the University of Konstanz . In 1993 he opened with three friends in Konstanz the Seetroll , a specialty shop for comics and games. There are now also branches in the surrounding towns.

Michael Palm develops games of various genres independently and on behalf of him, sometimes in a team with other authors. Among other things, he is an author for trading card games . In 1999 the publishing house "Ars Ludi" was founded.

Together with Sebastian Jakob (Team Telepathic Brothers) Michael Palm developed the trading card game The Simpsons on behalf of Dino AG in 2001 , which was expanded by three editions. For Fishtank, a subsidiary of Ravensburger , the Telepathic Brothers developed the well-known game Behind , which for the first time combined elements of trading card game and tabletop and also appeared on the French market.

In 2006, in collaboration with Lukas Zach, Palm's team partner at Ludocreatix, the trading card game for the popular cartoon series Dragon Hunters was created on behalf of Super RTL . In 2007 the trading card game Need for Speed ​​- Trading Card Game followed for the well-known computer racing game series Need for Speed by Electronic Arts .

In 2009, the "Mach Party!" Games that were developed for the "McDonald's Children's Birthday with TOGGO" in cooperation with Super RTL by the LudoCreatix development team received the Lima Award for "Promotion of the Year".

The revised version of The Carriage Ride to the Devil's Castle - Il Castello del Diavolo , which was revised for the Italian market, won the "Best Card Game of the Year" award in Italy in 2010.

In addition to his development activities, Michael Palm has been the owner of a games shop in Konstanz since 1993 with several branches in the surrounding areas, which mainly sell comics and all kinds of games and organize regular game evenings.

Ludography (selection)

  • 1996: The Secret on the Nile (with Martin Drewes; Jeux Descartes )
  • 1997: Sports for everyone (with Martin Drewes; State Sports Association Baden-Württemberg)
  • 1999: Bloodrace ( Truant Verlag )
  • 1999: Illegal (with Sebastian Jakob; Ars Ludi-Verlag)
  • 2000: Simpsons board game (with Sebastian Jakob; Dino AG )
  • 2001: Digimon board game (with Sebastian Jakob; Dino AG)
  • 2001: The Simpsons trading card game (with Sebastian Jakob; Dino AG); Extensions: Krusty (2002), Horror (2002), Sport (2004)
  • 2003: Behind trading card game (with Sebastian Jakob; Fishtank Verlag); Extensions: Reinforcement 1 (2004), Scenario Pack (2004); German and French versions
  • 2004: Traumschiff Surprise period 1 - card game (with Sebastian Jakob; Ravensburger / Fishtank)
  • 2004: My dwarfs fly high (with Sebastian Jakob; Pegasus Verlag , graphics: John Kovalic ), German and English edition
  • 2005: Chi-Zo (with Sebastian Jakob; Temple Games)
  • 2006: The Dragon Hunters (RTL Disney, Layout: Lukas Zach)
  • 2006: The carriage ride to the Teufelsburg (with Lukas Zach; Adlung Spiele), German-English edition
  • 2007: Need for Speed ​​- Trading Card Game (with Lukas Zach; Imagination)
  • 2007: Letter Bag (with Lukas Zach; Hiku Games)
  • 2008: Thinx (with Lukas Zach; PublicSolution)
  • 2008: Voodoo Party (with Lukas Zach; Hiku Games)
  • 2009: Yvio Partytime (with Lukas Zach; PublicSolution)
  • 2009: Galileo Thinking Fitness (with Lukas Zach; PublicSolution)
  • 2009: party! (with Lukas Zach; Super RTL and McDonald's)
  • 2010: Il Castello del Diavolo (with Lukas Zach; dV Giochi), Italian edition of Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg
  • 2011: Artifact (with Lukas Zach; Winning Moves)
  • 2012: Bim Bamm! (Card game) (with Lukas Zach; Verlag Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne)
  • 2012: The dark prophecy extension to Die Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg (with Lukas Zach; Adlung Spiele), German-English edition
  • 2012: Die Zwerge (board game) (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag ; board game for the book Die Zwerge by Markus Heitz )
  • 2013: Caught mixed! (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2013: BANG! The dice game (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2014: Die Zwerge - Das Duell (board game) (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag ; board game for the book Die Zwerge by Markus Heitz )
  • 2014: Evoker Mobile Game (digital trading card game) (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2014: Kung Fu (card game) (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2014: Groovy Pips (dice game) (with Lukas Zach; three rabbits in the evening sun )
  • 2016: Etoile (wooden game) (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2016: Die Zwerge - saga and character expansion (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag )
  • 2016: Magic to the power of three (board game) (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag ; on the recommendation list for Game of the Year 2017)
  • 2016: Bookworm (card game) (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2016: Bang! Dice game expansion - Old Saloon (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2016: Aventuria adventure card game (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2017: Aventuria extension - tears of fire (with Lukas Zach)
  • 2017: Tenno (card game) (with Lukas Zach; yikes! )
  • 2017: Asterix and Obelix (card game) (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag )
  • 2018: Adventure Island (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag )
  • 2018: Talisman - Legendary Adventure (board game) (with Lukas Zach; Pegasus Verlag )

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personal data
SURNAME Palm, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game developer and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Waiblingen near Stuttgart