Richard Garfield

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Richard Garfield, 2014

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

  1. ↑ a b Short biography of Garfield in the Magic press set at the German publisher Amigo
  2. ^ Richard Garfield at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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personal data
SURNAME Garfield, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garfield, Richard Channing Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American game developer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia