Walther Gerdts

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Walther Gerdts

Walther M. Gerdts (* 1962 in Hamburg ), known as Mac Gerdts , is a German game designer .

Life

The graduate economist began developing board games, mostly extensive strategy games with historical themes, when he was still at school in the 1970s and 1980s . His first publication, Antike , hit the market in 2005. The thematic orientation ensured popularity, especially on the American market and for all games for editions by international publishers. Gerdts' themed games do not have any of the random elements common for this genre in the course of the game.

Gerdts lives in Hamburg , where he works in administration.

Action roundabout

Gerdts' name is associated with the development of the so-called action roundabout , a cyclical arrangement of the actions possible in the game, on which you move your own character and thus determine your actions. As a rule, the next actions in the sequence can be accessed free of charge , but you can also skip them by paying game money or victory points. This element leads, on the one hand, to strategies that can be individually designed (by dispensing with certain actions in order to be able to process others in a faster rhythm), and, on the other hand, to the fact that the very detailed moves usual in the field of thematic-historical games are broken down into smaller parts After taking an action, the waiting time until it is a player's turn decreases.

Ludography

  • Imperial (2006, eggertspiele / PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )
  • Jogo do Ano (Portugal) 2006
  • 7th place German Games Prize 2007
  • Recommended list Game of the Year 2007
  • Finalist International Gamers Award 2007
  • Hall of Game of the Vienna Games Academy
  • Hamburgum (2007, eggertspiele / PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games and PD Games )
  • Finalist International Gamers Award 2008
  • 6th place German Games Prize 2008
  • The Princes of Machu Picchu (2008, PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )
  • Imperial 2030 (2009, PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )
  • Navegador (2010, PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )
  • Ancient Duellum (2012, PD-Verlag)
  • Antike II (2014, PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )
  • Concordia Salsa (2015, PD-Verlag, published internationally by Rio Grande Games )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt
personal data
SURNAME Gerdts, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerdts, Walther M .; Gerdts, Mac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German game designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany