Rob Daviau

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Rob Daviau (left) and Matt Leacock at the book signing at the stand with their game Pandemic Legacy at the international game days SPIEL 2016 in Essen

Rob Daviau (born 1970 in Maine ) is an American game designer best known for developing the first legacy games . In addition to working on independent games, as a former Hasbro employee , he mainly developed special editions for various established board games .

biography

Rob Daviau started as a game designer in 1998 and developed more than 70 games by 2016, focusing on both children's and family games as well as tactical board games. In addition, there were various additional and special editions for established board games such as Trivial Pursuit , Monopoly , Stratego and Risk as well as editions of the role-playing game Heroscape . In 2011 the game Risk Evolution , in the original Risk Evolution , was released on the basis of Risk , which is designed as the first legacy game and is accordingly characterized by permanent changes to the game material. The cooperative board game Pandemic Legacy (Season 1) , released in 2015, relies on the game Pandemie by Matt Leacock , with whom Daviau collaborated on this, and applies the legacy concept to this game. Another game of its kind he developed SeaFall in 2016 .

Ludography (selection)

Rob Daviau has developed numerous board games, board game expansions and editions since 1998. As a former Hasbro employee, he developed numerous additional and special editions of established board games.

  • 2000: Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit
  • 2001: Axis and Allies: Pacific
  • 2001: Risk 2210 AD
  • 2002: Star Wars Epic Duels
  • 2002: Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition
  • 2004: Trivial Pursuit: The Lord of the Ring Trilogy Edition with DVD
  • 2004: Betrayal at House on the Hill (with Bruce Glassco )
  • 2005: Risk: Star Wars - The Clone Wars Edition
  • 2006: Risk Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition
  • 2006: Wild Horde
  • 2011: Risk Evolution
  • 2012: Viking Funeral
  • 2015: Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (with Matt Leacock )
  • 2016: SeaFall
  • 2016: V-Wars
  • 2017: Stop Thief!
  • 2017: Indulgence (with GW "Jerry" D'Arcey, Justin D. Jacobson)
  • 2017: Downforce (with Justin D. Jacobson, Wolfgang Kramer)
  • 2017: Mountains of Madness
  • 2017: Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 (with Matt Leacock)
  • 2018: Ultimate Werewolf Legacy (with Ted Alspach)
  • 2018: Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar (with JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, Bruce Lund; new edition of Fireball Island from 1986)
  • 2018: Downforce: Danger Circuit (with Justin D. Jacobson, Wolfgang Kramer)
  • 2018: Betrayal Legacy (with Noah Cohen, JR Honeycutt, Ryan Miller, Brian Neff, Andrew Veen; Legacy version of Betrayal at House on the Hill )
  • 2019: Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One (with JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson)
  • 2019: Unmatched: Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot (with JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson)
  • 2019: ShipShape (with Ted Alspach)
  • 2019: Machi Koro Legacy (with JR Honeycutt, Masao Suganuma; Legacy implementation by Machi Koro )
  • 2019: Cthulhu: Death May Die (with Eric M. Lang )
  • 2019: Conspiracy: The Solomon Gambit (with JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Eric Solomon)

Awards

Several games by Rob Daviau have been nominated or won various game awards:

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Work , ludography on Rob Daviau's official website; accessed on January 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ Steffen Daniel Meyer: Risk "variant": A board game that does not forget. Spiegel online, October 25, 2014; accessed on January 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Dominik Schönleben: The board game “Pandemic Legacy” destroys itself after 18 games. Wired, October 5, 2015; accessed on January 4, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Daviau, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American game designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Maine