Tom Lehmann (game designer)

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Thomas "Tom" Lehmann (born July 1, 1958 ) is an American game designer and game publisher.

Life

Thomas Lehmann initially studied at Michigan State University and completed his studies in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Arts, then he switched to Stanford University and graduated in 1982 with a Master of Science in Engineering-Economic Systems. In the following years Lehmann worked, among other things, as a programmer and technical editor .

Lehmann began developing board games as a part-time job in the early 1990s. The first games were created in cooperation with James "Jim" Hlavaty and were published by their joint small publisher Prism Games / TimJim Games. Lehman's first major success was in 2002 with the auction game Pizarro & Co. , published in English by Rio Grande Games and in German under the title Magellan by Hans im Glück . The game was included in the shortlist for "Game of the Year 2002". This was followed, among other things, in 2006 by the dice game Um Krone und Kragen (English title: To Court the King , published in Germany by Amigo ) and in 2007 the card game Race for the Galaxy (published in Germany by Abacusspiele ). To date, five additions to Race for the Galaxy have been released. The dice game Roll for the Galaxy , invented by Wei-Hwa Huang and Lehmann and published in 2014, is based on the card game .

In addition, Lehman, together with Matt Leacock, has so far developed three expansions for his cooperation game Pandemie and the first expansion for the offshoot Pandemie - Die Heilung . With Roll Through the Ages: The Iron Age , Lehmann also created a successor to Leacock's dice game Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age . Lehmann is also the author of several scenarios in the 18XX series , a railway economy simulation . Its prototype, initially named in 1834, was renamed 1833NE by GMT Games and included in the p500 project, after reaching the required minimum order quantity, it is to be published in the near future.

Lehmann has been developing games full-time since 2007 and lives in Palo Alto , California .

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  1. ↑ http://sites.google.com/site/ptlehmann/home/about
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American game writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century