Game designer
As game designers (including game authors called) used to describe people who board games design.
Terms
Reinhold Wittig coined the name “game designer” in his edition Guinea Fowl at the end of the 1970s - to distinguish it from the “game inventor”. The games in question are so-called author games . In computer games, the game designer is called the game developer . The mostly chronological list of published games by a game designer is called a ludography .
Association
Every year, two important events take place in Germany where renowned game designers and newcomers meet representatives of the game publishers: in spring the game designers 'meeting in Haar near Munich and in early summer the Göttingen game designers' meeting .
The interest group for game designers is the game authors' guild. V. (SAZ).
Successful game designers
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Antoine Bauza (* 1978): 1 × Kennerspiel des Jahres , 1 × Spiel des Jahres , 1 × German Games Prize
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Steffen Bogen (* 1967): 1 × children's game of the year , 1 × game of the year
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Inka Brand (* 1977) and Markus Brand (* 1975) : 1 × Children's Game of the Year , 1 × Kennerspiel of the Year , 1 × German Games Prize , 1 × German Children's Games Prize
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Vlaada Chvátil (* 1971): 1 × Game of the Year , 1 × International Gamers Award -
Rudi Hoffmann (1924–2008): 1 × Game of the Year , 1 × The Golden Pöppel
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Reiner Knizia (* 1957): has published several hundred games, 4 × German Games Prize , 1 × Game of the Year , 1 × Children's Game of the Year
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Wolfgang Kramer (* 1942): 5 × Game of the Year , 3 × German Games Prize , 1 × Special Children 's Game Prize , 1 × German Children's Games Prize and 2 × Winner of the International Gamers Award
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Alan R. Moon (* 1951): 2 × Game of the Year
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Alexander Pfister (* 1971): 2 × Kennerspiel des Jahres , 1 × German Games Prize
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Alex Randolph (1922–2004) “Grand seigneur of game culture”, 1 × game of the year , 1 × children's game of the year , 2 × special prize “Beautiful game”; German Games Prize : Special prize for his life's work -
Uwe Rosenberg (* 1970): 1 × game of the year "Special Prize Complex Game", 1 × German Games Prize , founder of the Bohnanza series and 4 × winner of the International Gamers Award
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Sid Sackson (1920–2002): has published several hundred games, 1 × game of the year
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Andreas Seyfarth (* 1962): 2 × Game of the Year , 1 × German Games Prize
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Donald X. Vaccarino (* 1969): 2 × Game of the Year , 1 × German Games Prize
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Klaus Teuber (* 1952): 4 × Game of the Year , 4 × German Games Prize , founder of the Catan series
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Martin Wallace : 3 × winners of the International Gamers Award
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Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (* 1963): 1 × Game of the Year , 1 × German Games Prize , founder of the Carcassonne series