Richard Garfield
Richard Channing Garfield, Jr. (born June 26, 1963 in Philadelphia ) is an American game developer ; his most famous creation is the first trading card game Magic: The Gathering .
biography
Garfield studied mathematics and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science. He subsequently remained in the university and dealt with computer-aided mathematics and combinatorics . For the work On the Residue Classes of Combinatorial Families of Numbers , the University of Philadelphia awarded the degree of Dr. phil. awarded.
Garfield was developing games when he was young. He created his first, later commercially published game, Robo Rally , in 1983, which, however, only found a publisher with Wizards of the Coast in 1991 and was not published until 1994. As part of this contract, Garfield came up with the idea for Magic: The Gathering . When this was released in 1993, Garfield was becoming a full-time game developer.
Garfield's game developments
- 1993: Magic: The Gathering , trading card game
- 1994: Robo Rally , board game
- 1994: Vampires: The Eternal Struggle , trading card game
- 1995: The Great Dalmuti , card game
- 1996: Netrunner , trading card game
- 1996: BattleTech CCG , trading card game
- 1997: Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle , card game
- 1998: What Were You Thinking? , Board game
- 1998: Filthy Rich , board game
- 1998: Twitch , card game
- 2002: Star Wars Trading Card Game , trading card game
- 2006: Pecking Order , board game
- 2006: Rocketville , board game
- 2007: Stonehenge , board game (with Bruno Faidutti , James Ernest , Mike Selinker , Richard Borg )
- 2008: Spectromancer , online card game
- 2008: Schizoid , video game
- 2011: King of Tokyo , board game - Dutch Games Award 2013
- 2011: Kard Combat , iOS game
- 2012: SolForge , online trading card game (in cooperation with Gary Games, now Stoneblade Entertainment)
- 2012: Android: Netrunner , Living Card Game (not directly involved, the game is based on Garfield's Netrunner)
- 2013: Ghooost , card game
- 2014: King of New York , board game; based on King of Tokyo
- 2015: Treasure Hunter , board game
- 2016: Robo Rally (revision), board game
- 2016: Greedy Goblins
- 2017: Bunny Kingdom
- 2018: Artifact (with Valve Corporation )
- 2018: Keyforge
- 2018: KeyForge: Call of the Archons , trading card game
- 2019: Carnival of Monsters
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Short biography of Garfield in the Magic press set at the German publisher Amigo
- ^ Richard Garfield at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Web links
- Richard Garfield in the Luding games database
- Richard Garfield in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Garfield, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garfield, Richard Channing Jr. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American game developer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |