Steffen Benndorf

Steffen Benndorf (born 1974 in Schmölln , GDR ) is a German game designer who mainly develops dice and card games . He was best known for developing the dice game Qwixx and the card game The Game , each of which was nominated for the jury award Game of the Year .

biography

In 2009, Benndorf published the dice game Würfel Express as the first game at Ravensburger Spiele , followed in 2011 by Fiese 15! at Schmidt games . This was followed in 2012 by the dice game adaptation of the classic Mensch ärgere dich nicht under the name Mensch ärgere dich nicht - a different way, and in 2013 the game I have finished at the Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag (NSV). The published by him in 2012 also at NSI dice game Qwixx was in the following year for the Game of the Year nominations, but was against Hanabi by Antoine Bauza not prevail. Due to the success of Qwixx, Benndorf developed several adaptations of the game that were published in the following years, including Qwixx Deluxe (2013), Qwixx gemixxt (2014), Qwixx - Das Kartenspiel! (2014) and Qwixx: Das Duell (2016). The card game The Game , published in 2015, was also nominated for Game of the Year in the same year, but was defeated by Christophe Raimbault's Colt Express . He also developed other versions of this game: The Game: On Fire (2015) and, together with Reinhard Staupe, The Game: Extreme (2016). Other games from Benndorf are the abstract card game Träxx , published in 2015 with Reinhard Staupe as co-author, and the cooperative card game Verflucht ! from 2018.

Ludography (selection)

• 2009: Würfel Express ( Ravensburger Games )
• 2011: nasty 15! ( Schmidt Games )
• 2012: Don't get angry - with a difference (Schmidt Spiele)
• 2013: I finished ( Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag )
• 2012: Pescado (Steffen Games)
• 2012: Qwixx (Nürnberg Spielkarten Verlag)
• 2014: Qwixx - The Card Game! (Nuremberg playing cards publisher)
• 2015: The Game (Nürnberg Spielkarten Verlag)
• 2015: Träxx (with Reinhard Staupe , Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag)
• 2017: twenty one (with Reinhard Staupe , Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag)
• 2018: Damn it! ( Amigo Spieleverlag )
• 2019: Ohanami (Nuremberg playing cards publisher)
• 2019: Anubixx (with Florian and Helmut Ortlepp; Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag)
• 2020: Contact - Signals from Space (Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag)

Awards

• game of the year
  • Qwixx : Nomination 2013
  • The Game : Nomination 2015
• À la carte card game price
  • The Game : 2nd place in 2015

Web links

• Steffen Benndorf in the Luding games database
• Steffen Benndorf in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)