I did my research mainly on Internet at the best sources that can be found in free access, neglecting magazine articles or information given in game boxes, with few exceptions. Any designer (or authorized relative) who would complete his birth date/place/time or correct any error or typo is invited to contact me. Also, as anyone who would let me know any serious information or link to complete this page.
The B.G.D.A.P. is related to board game designers only, not video game designers nor role playing game designers (with one or two exceptions). I've been interested in boardgames for ... ever: in its historical evolution since the Game of Goose (Gioco dell' Oca) to figurative and thematic modern games, and highly, for more than 30 years, in a real classification of boardgames by types oriented not only by mechanisms but also by feelings. In total 124 main categories: that project is in progress and will be published here within some years.
As a player: for one part I'm firstly a player of abstract games, a rather good one in some of them (Dvonn, Medina, Penguin, Ponte del Diavolo, Lines of Action) and mainly interested in creative refined and streamlined process of these games, but a mediocre Chess player too since November 1967 and a far more mediocre one in Go since July 1984 ; for another part I'm interested in historical and cultural simulation as they are elaborated in wargames, not so much by the fight itself than by the reproduction of historical conflict situations as they are represented into the game ; and for a medium part I'm finally convinced by heavy strategic boardgames and by their underlying mechanisms. So I roughly divided the games into these three categories: abstract games ca. 10%, wargames ca. 12%, the third and main category including some lighter, "family", or "thematic" but significant games.
A game and its rules could be considered as a true legislative corpus involving the free will of the human mind in its capacity to take decisions. It is a true creative body of rules engaging the liberty of each one, although a liberty framed, including that one to commit himself in such a game or in another. Games are pieces of creative thinking but also pieces of art, and some of them can be considered as real artistic objects. From this perspective, the German school has perhaps not been overstepped (Franckh/Perlhuhn, Theta, then LudoArt games), but see, recently, Trickerion (2015) by Mindclash Games, Kingdom Death: Monster (2015) by Kingdom Death, Mechs vs. Minions (2016) by Riot Games, and Lisboa (2017) by Eagle-Gryphon Games. However I will not give here any light on graphism, just focusing on selected designers for their inventiveness in mechanisms and game sequences.
This database of designers via their games is a mixture of four criteria : the games I've played, the games I own in my collection, the games I like, and the games historically important relatively to my knowledge. The result is a selection of 200 designers (including 26 deceased ones) out of the 32,500 or so in the BGG database, i.e. about 0.6%. A second table shows a selection of about 800 games whose I've played to more than half of them.
And I decided which designer will appear in the database before receiving or not (when I was able to have a contact) a positive feedback or an agressive skeptic one for some of them (in fact only one). The game designer may be curious in astrology or not "believing" in it : it's definitively not the question nor my problem. Personnally I do not believe either in common astrology nor in the main part of what can be found in books or on internet, but only in the astral philosophy that I've defended in my doctoral thesis on March 19, 1993 at 9:30 in room 113 of the Sorbonne University in Paris.
On one side, people (and many board game designers) generally do not have a correct idea of what is astrology but some are aware of what lies in magazine horoscopes or in skeptic/zetetic propaganda. They ignore that Kepler has been one of the main reformer of astrology (see Kepler's Astrology). On another side, people (and most of the astrologers) are not aware of the huge development of boardgames for fifty years, except some party games that could be found on supermarket shelves, and do not consider boardgame designing as a real creative activity of thinking. On the two main professionals birth databases on internet (the Gauquelin one on Cura, and the Astrodatabank) whose birth data end up being on the wikis, one can find only one designer: the inventor of Magic The Gathering. So, honestly, I do not know who could be interested in this study, except some very few people involved in history of boardgaming or some others, curious about serious natal astrology. On my side, I do "believe" in games and I see the acts of creating games, of playing, of thinking about invention and mechanics of gaming as real positive activities. I personally designed about 30 card and board games, but not having any time nor testing team for just trying to develop then promote them.
The borderline between author's games and industrial/commercial games is not so evident, and remains more difficult to establish in this field than for cinema or music. Commercial games, taking up proven game mechanisms but transposed to another thematic universes, can prove to be excellent games and nice to play in the end. On the other hand, author's games may not work and leave the player's playful thirst dissatisfied. And what ultimately matters in a game is the feeling produced by the act of playing and in the player's desire to renew his experience by restarting a game play.
Many of the pages on board games that can be found on the internet are mainly promotion of games, opinions of players, industry and business, and it's really hard to find any place where games are involved in historical and comparative studies, except for ancient and classic games (see The World of Abstract Games by João Pedro Neto, Card Games and Tile Games from around the World by John McLeod, or Board and Pieces by James J. Bond), in collectors pages (see Giochi dell'Oca e di percorso by Luigi Ciompi & Adrian Seville, and Collection de jeux anciens by Alain Rabussier), in the rather good historical summary by Marco Hirt too, the Kleines Spiele-Museum, and perhaps in some rare personal pages posted on BGG. I must add that I have not been authorized there to use my main account to contact designers.
Some designers who were not selected but nevertheless are the inventors of at least one excellent game published in the last 10/15 years, could be added to the database if ever they would inform me about their birth details:
Martin Ebel (DE) for Ponte del Diavolo (2007) ; Gordon Lamont and Fraser Lamont (US) for Snow Tails (2008) ; Colby Dauch (US) for Summoner Wars (2009)
Fran Diaz (ES) for Polis: Fight for the Hegemony (2010) ; Touko Tahkokallio (FI) for Eclipse (2011) ; Matt Calkins (US) for Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan (2011)
Greg Daigle (CA) for Hawaii (2011) ; Alain Epron (FR) for Vanuatu (2011) ; Brian Mayer (US) for Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2012)
Jim Pinto (US) for Dominare (2012) ; Yeon-Min Jung and Jun-Hyup Kim (KR) for Patchistory (2013) ; József Dorsonczky (RO) for Six Making (2013)
Etienne Espreman (BE) for Bruxelles 1893 (2013) ; François-Stanislas Thomas (FR) for Napoleon against Europe (2013)
Cody Miller (US) for Xia: Legends of a Drift System (2014) ; Shimpei Sato (JP) for Onitama (2014) ; Matúš Kotry (SK) for Alchemists (2014)
Adam Poots (US) for Kingdom Death: Monster (2015) ; Hervé Rigal (FR) for Shakespeare (2015) ; Koota Yamada (JP) for IKI (2015)
Alexander Huemer (AT) for Lignum (2015) ; Ole Steiness (DK) for Champions of Midgard (2015) ; Eros Lin (TW) for Burano (2015) and Round House (2016)
Tim Puls (DE) for The Colonists (2016) ; Frédéric Henry (FR) for Conan (2016) ; David Short (US) for Automobiles (2016)
François Vander Meulen (FR) for Tenkatoitsu (2016) ; Eric Reuss (US) for Spirit Island (2017) ; Marc Neidlinger (US) for Vindication (2018)
David Ausloos (BE) for Dreamscape (2019) ; Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison (FR) for Dominations: Road to Civilization (2019)
The information provided in the database are in free access on internet, and as such they are not private. I can give the links for each of them. For birth date and place, those that can be found on de.wikipedia (Spieleautor), en.wikipedia (Board game designers), fr.wikipedia (Auteur de jeux de société), it.wikipedia (Autori di giochi) and boardgamegeek.com (Designers Notices) are marked by white cells. Other ones were communicated to me by the designers themselves, specifically for this project, and I thank them all warmly, even those who are not aware about their birth time (read "p.c." as personal communication and "b.c." as birth certificate in Source column of the first table). The fact that these game authors let me know their birth hours does not imply in any way that they believe in astrology, but only that they were kind enough to give them to me.
In the following table, designers can be listed by Name, Year of Birth, Country of birth ... Reload the page to return to the original table.
In the last column, an index of the designers' notoriety as indicated by the "fans" mention in BGG database at Christmas 2020. In the fourth column, one can access to the charts (CH) of designers whose birth time is now known. Another annexed page, Board Game Designers Charts, is regrouping the charts that are calculated with OCTOTOPE (8 Houses System), Longitudes and ALTITUDES for significant planetary bodies, and TRUE MC (the real ecliptic point of highest altitude at birth) : See my doctoral thesis (VIII.7-15) on the question about "How to draw a right astrological chart".
NUM NAME FORNAME COD YEA MON DAY HOU PLACE NAT SOURCE BGG 7 Lamorisse Albert Emmanuel CH 1922 01 13 21:00 Paris 14e FR (b.c. acte 5.1), d 02/06/1970 Karadj, Iran 1 24 Parlett David CH 1939 05 18 02:12 London, University College hospital GB (p.c. from his mother) 30 28 Dalgliesh Tom CH 1945 08 24 06:10 Aberdeen GB (p.c. James Eisert, Columbia Games) 19 30 Eberle William "Bill" Caveny CH 1945 10 29 11:20 Syracuse, NY US (p.c.) 25 34 Freeling Christian CH 1947 02 01 05:15 Enschede NL (p.c.) 19 50 Hostettler Urs CH 1949 08 14 20:30 Bern CH (p.c.) 15 37 Donadoni Marco Alberto CH 1951 11 08 09:30 Milano IT (p.c.) 12 67 Herman Mark CH 1954 11 18 12:00 Brooklyn, NY US (p.c. from b.c.) 228 39 Nédelec François Xavier CH 1954 12 03 12:15 Suresnes FR (b.c. acte n° 2.16), d 15/06/2009 Paris 1 69 Breese Richard CH 1956 06 20 15:00 London GB (p.c.) 120 73 Burm Kris CH 1957 08 26 05:15 Wilrijk near Antwerp BE (p.c. from his mother) 97 60 Knizia Reiner Walter CH 1957 11 16 06.00 Illertissen, BAY DE (p.c. Karen Easteal, "around 06:00") 1116 70 Ehrhard Dominique CH 1958 03 05 05:15 Mulhouse FR (b.c. acte n° 8.1) 16 93 Fraga Roberto CH 1960 12 11 11:30 La Coruña ES (p.c.) 38 89 Bey Frédéric CH 1961 04 20 01:20 Issy-les-Moulineaux FR (b.c. acte n° 4.2) 29 78 Garfield Richard Channing CH 1963 06 26 05:00 Philadelphia US (Selma Schepel, from mother, Data News 66) 434 61 Looney Andrew J. CH 1963 11 05 03:24 Washington US (p.c. from b.c.) 50 110 Cathala Bruno CH 1963 11 22 15:20 Belley FR (b.c. acte n° 4.1) 898 116 Meglio (di) Roberto CH 1966 03 29 13:00 Pisa IT (p.c. from his mother) 25 140 Lacerda Vital CH 1967 06 01 06:45 Lisboa PT (p.c.) 918 117 Boelinger Christophe CH 1967 07 16 02:50 Nice FR (p.c. and b.c. acte n° 2.51) 94 136 Gigli Virginio CH 1968 02 24 13:00 Roma IT (p.c. "about 13.00") 56 128 Matthews Jason CH 1970 07 14 19:55 Los Angeles, Queen of the Angeles hosp. US (p.c. from b.c.) 122 130 Feld Stefan CH 1970 10 02 10:00 Karlsruhe DE (p.c. "around 10:00 in the morning") 1483 166 Zizzi Pierluca CH 1970 12 17 12:00 Torino IT (p.c. "about 12:00 am") 21 127 Pauchon Sébastien CH 1971 06 04 14:00 Montreux CH (p.c. "around 2 pm") 65 170 Soledade Paulo CH 1975 11 12 06:00 Leiria PT (p.c.) 55 152 Brand Markus CH 1975 10 01 19:43 Beckum, NRW DE (p.c.) 51 151 Brand Inka CH 1977 03 19 16:15 Aurich, NDS DE (p.c.) 61 171 Fowers Tim CH 1977 12 18 05:46 Ithaca, NY US (p.c.) 130 189 Matejka Keith CH 1978 02 16 03:15 Corpus Cristi, TX US (p.c.) 39 160 Bauza Antoine CH 1978 08 25 12:15 Valence FR (b.c. acte n° 1.89) 985 131 Bonnessée Régis CH 1979 03 15 12:55 Levallois-Perret FR (b.c. acte n° 1.6) 38 190 Amundsen Østby Kristian Roald CH 1980 02 23 05:00 Stavanger, Rogaland NO (p.c.) 38 178 Bizarro Sentieiro Nuno CH 1980 02 26 16:00 Leiria PT (p.c.) 69 176 Kanai Seiji CH 1980 03 06 18:25 Kanagawa district JP (p.c.) 179 192 Childres Isaac CH 1982 04 24 14:20 Bakersfield, CA US (p.c. Chris Kessler, Cephalofair Games) 331 194 Péter Viktor CH 1985 10 19 02:30 Budapest HU (p.c. "during the early morning hours") 27 191 Chiacchiera Martino CH 1993 03 10 10:30 Perugia IT (p.c. "between 10 and 11 a.m.") 17 1 Magie Elizabeth "Lizzie" 1866 05 09 Macomb, IL US d 02/03/1948 Arlington, VA 4 2 Parker George Swinnerton 1866 12 12 Salem, MA US d 26/09/1952 Boston 5 3 Darrow Charles Brace 1889 08 10 Cumberland, Allegany, MD US d 29/08/1967 Ottsville, Bucks, PA 3 4 Butts Alfred Mosher 1899 04 13 Poughkeepsie, NY US d 04/04/1993 Rhinebeck, NY 2 6 Pratt Anthony Ernest 1903 08 10 Birmingham GB d 09/04/1994 Birmingham 1 5 Hein Piet 1905 12 16 Copenhagen DK d 17/04/1996 Middelfart, Funen 6 13 Sackson Sid 1920 02 04 Chicago US d 06/11/2002 New York 149 14 Randolph Alexander 1922 05 04 Dobrohost, South Bohemia CZ d 27/04/2004 Venezia 68 15 Soucie Claude 1923 06 14 Québec CA d 15/11/1996 Ridgewood, NY 1 18 Hoffmann Rudi 1924 08 30 Höxter, NRW DE d 18/07/2008 Bensheim, HES 7 8 Glonnegger Erwin 1925 05 19 Aulendorf, BW DE d 06/02/2016 Ravensburg 2 9 Roberts Charles Swann 1930 02 03 Baltimore, MD US d 20/08/2010 Baltimore 14 16 Fallon Michel 1931 11 30 Bruxelles BE d 03/03/2015 Fosses-la-Ville, NAM 1 10 Calhamer Allan Brian 1931 12 07 Hinsdale, IL US d 25/02/2013, La Grange, IL 12 19 Watts David Gwyn 1932 09 03 Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex GB 1 11 Abbott Robert 1933 03 02 St. Louis, MO US d 20/02/2018 Jupiter, FL 20 20 Benge Donald 1933 11 04 Chicago, Ravenswood Hospital US d 06/04/2007 Los Angeles 12 21 Solomon Eric William 1935 03 03 Royal Sutton Coldfield GB d 03/04/2020 Ilford 12 22 Tresham Francis George 1936 04 Northampton GB d 23/10/2019 Leighton Buzzard 87 12 Wittig Reinhold 1937 01 02 Göttingen DE 17 23 Gygax Ernest Gary 1938 07 27 Chicago US d 04/03/2008 Lake Geneva, WI 73 25 Chadwick Frank 1940 08 06 US 80 44 Kramer Wolfgang 1942 06 29 Stuttgart DE 373 26 Berg Richard Harvey 1943 03 10 New York US d 26/07/2019 Charleston, SC 124 17 Dunnigan Jim (James F.) 1943 08 08 * Spring Valley, NY US (p.c. time unknown) 93 72 Neuwahl Niek 1944 04 24 Zoeterwoude NL 7 45 Kobbert Max Jürgen 1944 05 28 Königsberg (Kaliningrad) DE 9 32 Wham Thomas "Tom" 1944 08 28 Chester, IL US 78 27 Olotka Peter 1944 11 18 US 39 29 Hamblen Richard 1945 02 02 Albuquerque, NM US 66 46 Brunnhofer Bernd 1946 07 27 Graz AT 45 84 Schlegel Martin 1946 09 20 Ahlen, NRW DE 13 33 Besinque Craig 1946 CA 26 48 Borg Richard 1948 02 30 Connecticut US 246 47 Schmiel Karl-Heinz 1948 11 28 DE 30 35 Petit Jean-Jacques 1949 06 17 FR 4 49 Mathieu Gérard 1949 Versailles FR 3 65 Sohre Michael 1949 Radebeul, SAX (Spielbox 06/2011) DE d 17/10/2011 Kleinmachnow, BB 2 51 Greenwood Don 1950 04 27 US 52 36 Bromley Darwin Paul 1950 10 23 Huntington, WV US d 02/01/2019 Jacksonville, FL 15 38 Pulsipher Lewis Errol 1951 01 22 Detroit US 14 64 Moon Alan Richard 1951 11 18 Southampton GB 244 56 Teuber Klaus 1952 06 25 * Breuberg (Rai-Breitenbach), HES DE (p.c. time unknown) 146 40 Siegers Roland 1952 10 02 Verviers BE 2 81 Vasey Charles 1952 Edinburgh GB 12 52 Leroy Claude 1952 FR 6 63 Zoch Klaus 1953 04 30 Zell am Harmersbach, BW DE 7 31 Jackson Steven "Steeve" Gary 1953 Tulsa, OK US 154 42 Jolly Thomas "Tom" 1954 04 08 Los Angeles US 37 88 Yianni John 1954 12 GB 48 41 Vitale Duccio 1954 IT 7 125 Eklund Phil 1955 03 31 US 328 54 Launius Richard 1955 05 04 US 219 85 Delonge Franz-Benno 1957 05 13 München DE d 02/09/2007 München 39 74 Simonitch Mark 1957 12 30 Ross, CA US 135 121 Kiesling Michael 1957 Bremen DE 248 68 Lehmann Thomas "Tom" 1958 07 01 US 286 71 Dorra Stefan H. 1958 07 30 * Soltau, NDS DE (p.c. time unknown) 75 86 Raicer Ted Samuel 1958 08 17 New Jersey US 59 43 Rowland Harry Grant 1958 10 05 * Townsville, Queensland AU (p.c. time unknown) 17 53 Laget Serge 1959 02 13 Oloron-Sainte-Marie FR 38 55 Johnson Jervis 1959 06 12 London GB 37 111 Simmons Bowen "Rachel" 1959 07 14 US 98 115 Steere Mark 1959 08 02 Palo Alto, CA US 13 91 Pallières (des) Philippe 1959 12 04 Paris FR 11 87 Keyaerts Philippe 1959 BE 60 92 Tavitian Bernard 1960 03 03 FR 6 146 Elliott Mike 1960 10 11 US 71 76 Cornett Günter 1960 Flensburg, SH DE 13 75 Henn Dirk 1960 Bendorf, RP DE 73 66 Faidutti Bruno 1961 10 32 Avignon FR 368 97 Burkhardt Günter 1961 DE 10 165 Stockhausen Reiner 1962 03 07 Aachen DE 68 98 Ruhnke Volko 1962 04 26 US 195 90 Wallace Martin 1962 07 10 * Romsey, Hampshire GB (p.c. time unknown) 889 77 Seyfarth Andreas 1962 11 06 München DE 112 118 Gerdts Walther "Mac" 1962 Hamburg DE 299 137 Beach Edward "Ed" 1963 02 23 US 39 109 Albertarelli Spartaco 1963 03 19 Milano IT 25 94 Wrede Klaus-Jürgen 1963 08 19 Meschede, NRW DE 118 95 Colovini Leo 1964 11 19 * Venezia IT (p.c. time unknown) 75 96 Schacht Michael 1964 Wiesbaden DE 174 59 Baker Stephen 1964 GB 47 112 Drover Glenn 1965 07 01 US 59 62 Nestel Frank 1965 10 12 Backnang, BW DE 8 143 Stein Dieter 1965 DE 27 113 Browne Cameron Bolitho 1966 06 16 * Brisbane, Women's hospital AU (p.c. no time recorded) 24 79 Chambers Andy 1966 10 20 Nottingham GB 10 119 Rieneck Michael 1966 Kiel, SH DE 58 124 Jensen Chad Erik 1967 04 16 San Francisco Bay Area US d 14/11/2019 Santa Rosa, CA ? 179 99 Nepitello Francesco 1967 12 29 Venezia IT 33 141 Eisenstein Bernd 1967 Speyer, RP DE 22 164 Alspach Ted 1968 02 01 New York US 132 102 Staupe Reinhard 1968 09 20 * Kassel, HES DE (p.c. time unknown) 15 142 Vaccarino Donald X. 1969 01 04 New York US 340 80 Dorn Rüdiger 1969 07 30 * Ibbenbüren, NRW DE (p.c. Maja Dorn, time unknown) 233 122 Drögemüller Jens 1969 10 19 DE 58 123 Sivél Richard 1969 DE 46 145 Cramer Matthias 1969 11:50 DE (Helvetia) 142 100 Rosenberg Uwe 1970 03 27 Aurich, NDS DE 1872 108 Daviau Robert "Rob" 1970 04 24 Maine US 267 104 Friese Friedemann 1970 06 05 Stadthagen, NDS DE 562 129 Chiarvesio Andrea 1970 07 19 Torino IT 47 148 Georges Xavier 1970 BE 112 147 Leacock Matt 1971 08 10 St. Paul, MN US 519 120 Chvátil Vladimír "Vlaada" 1971 09 14 * Jihlava CZ (p.c. Lena, time unknown) 1855 187 Pfister Alexander 1971 10 18 Bludenz, Vorarlberg AT 585 168 Roudy Ludovic 1971 FR 20 101 Petersen Christian Thomas 1972 04 04 Washington US 168 150 Lang Eric M. 1972 09 11 Montreal, Quebec CA 934 200 Hargrave Elizabeth 1972 12 31 US 166 103 Moorsel (van) Corné 1972 NL 33 149 Romeral Andrés Néstor 1972 ES 44 126 Ornella Emanuele 1972 IT 29 169 Chaboussit Cédrick 1973 FR 19 106 Wiersinga Joris 1974 Arnhem NL 49 163 Fryxelius Jacob 1974 SE (birth year, p.c.) 109 188 Matsuuchi Yukinori "Emerson" 1975 08 04 Los Angeles US 95 135 Chudyk Carl 1975 10 12 US 231 138 Oracz Michal 1975 PL 108 107 Doumen Jeroen 1975 NL 74 154 Trzewiczek Ignacy 1976 09 23 Gliwice PL 681 134 Attia William 1976 FR 50 157 Torbey Shadi 1976 Siegburg, NRW DE 142 153 Dubarry Philip 1977 01 24 US 35 158 Bentley Nick 1977 07 16 US 28 156 Mori Paolo 1977 07 04 Parma IT 97 105 Casasola Merkle Marcel-André 1977 08 10 Nürnberg DE 37 175 Carlson Adam 1977 09 19 US 16 167 Luciani Simone 1977 09 07 * Porto San Giorgio, Fermo IT (p.c. time unknown) 286 132 Wilson Kevin 1979 02 14 US 229 183 Gilmour Jonathan 1979 12 23 US 79 161 Marcussen Christian 1980 01 22 GB 85 193 Warsch Wolfgang 1980 02 19 Steyr AT 182 180 Stegmaier Jamey 1981 01 09 New York US (born in the evening) 869 159 Walker-Harding Phil 1981 Wollongong, New South Wales AU 244 155 Konieczka Corey 1982 02 18 US 629 197 Phillips Shem 1984 NZ 216 179 Al-JouJou Juma 1985 09 30 * Sharjah, United Arab Emirates AE (p.c. time unknown) 44 172 Laukat Ryan 1985 11 11 US 511 195 Wehrle Cole 1986 10 03 US 301 181 Almes Scott 1987 07 31 US 183 196 Dunstan Matthew 1987 11 15 Sydney AU 17 174 Hayashi Hisashi ? JP 78 177 Hawthorne Jerry ? US 105 199 Thompson David ? US 52 139 Bleasdale Sebastian ? GB 36 186 Dujardin Sébastien ? Tournai BE 80 184 Risthaus Stefan ? DE 24 185 Odendahl Andreas ? DE 21 162 Orgler Leonhard "Lonny" ? AT 26 82 Ernest James ? US 81 83 Zeimet Jacques ? LX 15 133 Czarnetzki Frank ? DE 2 173 Tascini Daniele ? Porto San Giorgio, Fermo ? IT 244 57 Poël (du) Jean ? DE 7 58 Riedesser Wolfgang ? DE 3 198 Turczi David ? HU 185 144 Suchý Vladimír ? Praha CZ 139 182 Canetta Marco ? IT 9 114 Steding Andreas ? Göttingen DE 65
As coincidences, there are three designers who have their aniversaries on April 24, three others on November 18, and even four on August 10, but as expected, the distribution of Board Game Designers in the Zodiac (Solar Sign) does not appear as significant as Chess Champions one. Nevertheless the Summer and Fall quarters are more represented than the Spring and Winter ones (41-41 vs 31-35), probably because Spring is the area of Social/Work activity and Winter that one of Mental/Scientific thinking while Summer and Fall are related to Imaginary Worlds. More specically, well below average, Gemini/Jupiter represents legislative Law and Capricorn/Saturn Scientific Law, while the acts of creating and playing games are related to free and extra-social activities often condemned by legislations over the centuries (prohibition of gambling, practice of Morris attested by lines engraved on the stone at paved forecourts of cathedrals when women went to pray, the sulphurous reputation of role-playing games in the 1980s...). Gaming is both a convivial and "trans-social" phenomenon in that it invites to go beyond the usual social cogs and precedences, and to distance from them. Thus the Moment of Gaming is a privileged piece of time that is to be shared and allows to escape from the locks, subordinations and sometimes humiliations that could be experienced in one's factories, companies or offices.
| 1 | Elizabeth "Lizzie" | Magie | 1903 | the inventor of The Landlord's Game (1903), the very first prototype of Monopoly (Parker Brothers, 1933), designer of Bargain Day (1937) and King's Men (1937) | |
| 2 | George Swinnerton | Parker | 1888 | founder of Parker Brothers Company, designer of Chivalry (1888) aka Camelot (1930), Pit (1903), Rook (1906) | |
| 3 | Charles Brace | Darrow | 1933 | the reinventor of Monopoly (1933) after Lizzie Magie | |
| 5 | Piet | Hein | a | 1933 | mathematician, physicist and "gruking" poet, inventor of a solid dissection puzzle, the Soma Cube (1933), and connection game Hex (1942) |
| 4 | Alfred Mosher | Butts | 1938 | the inventor of Scrabble (1938) | |
| 6 | Anthony Ernest | Pratt | 1949 | the inventor of Clue or Cluedo (1949) | |
| 9 | Charles Swann | Roberts | w | 1954 | the father of modern Board Wargaming with Tactics (1954), Tactics II (1958), Bismarck (1962), Afrika Korps (1964) |
| 11 | Robert | Abbott | a | 1956 | Eleusis (1956), Epaminondas (1975), Code 777 (1985), Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War (1992) |
| 7 | Albert Emmanuel | Lamorisse | 1957 | film-maker and designer of La Conquête du Monde (1957), the very first version of the successful Risk (1959) | |
| 10 | Allan Brian | Calhamer | 1958 | the designer of Diplomacy (1958) | |
| 8 | Erwin | Glonnegger | 1959 | editor for Ravensburger during 35 years, author of "Das Spiele-Buch" (1988 ; 2009), designer of Memory aka Concentration (1959) | |
| 12 | Reinhold | Wittig | 1959 | Piratenbillard (1959), Das Spiel (1980), Corda (1982), Cubus (1987), Maritim (1987), Volta (2003) | |
| 14 | Alexander | Randolph | 1962 | American designer: Twixt (1962), Code 777 (1985), Raj (1988), Inkognito (1988), Orbit (1993), Ricochet Robots (1999), Big Shot (2001) | |
| 13 | Sid | Sackson | 1963 | author of "A Gamut of Games" (1969) ; designer of Focus (1963), Acquire (1964), Sleuth (1971), Can't Stop (1980), Samarkand (1980), I'm the Boss! (1994) | |
| 16 | Michel | Fallon | 1966 | baron and engineer, designer of Magellan (1966) | |
| 17 | Jim (James F.) | Dunnigan | w | 1967 | Jutland (1967), PanzerBlitz (1970), Panzergruppe Guderian (1976), Empires of the Middle Ages (1980) |
| 15 | Claude | Soucie | a | 1969 | Lines of Action (1969), Zen l'initié (1997) |
| 20 | Donald | Benge | a | 1972 | Conquest (1972), Grand Conquest (2006) |
| 28 | Tom | Dalgliesh | w | 1972 | Quebec 1759 (1972), Napoléon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (1974), EastFront (1991), Wizard Kings (2000), Hammer of the Scots (2002), Crusader Rex (2005), Richard III (2009) |
| 18 | Rudi | Hoffmann | 1973 | Tally Ho! (1973), Janus (1975), Café International (1989), Ramparts (1993) | |
| 19 | David Gwyn | Watts | 1973 | Railway Rivals aka Dampfross (1973-79), Chessington (1990) | |
| 21 | Eric William | Solomon | a | 1973 | Aggression (1973), Black Box (1977), Hyle (1979), Billabong (1992) |
| 24 | David | Parlett | 1973 | Hare & Tortoise (1973) ; author of several books on abstract and card games including a "History of Board Games" (1999 ; 2018) | |
| 22 | Francis George | Tresham | 1974 | 1829 (1974), Civilization (1980), 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons (1986), Revolution: The Dutch Revolt 1568-1648 (2004) | |
| 23 | Ernest Gary | Gygax | r | 1974 | the designer of the renowned fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (1974), then Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1977-79) |
| 26 | Richard Harvey | Berg | w | 1976 | Conquistador (1976), Terrible Swift Sword (1976), Blackbeard (1991), SPQR (1992), Successors (1997-2008), Pax Romana (2006), Onward, Christian Soldiers (2006) |
| 25 | Frank | Chadwick | w | 1977 | Imperium: Empires in Conflict (1977), A House Divided (1981), Fire in the East (1984), The Third World War: Battle for Germany (1984) |
| 27 | Peter | Olotka | 1977 | Cosmic Encounter (1977), Dune (1979) and Borderlands (1982) with Bill Eberle and Jack Kittredge | |
| 29 | Richard | Hamblen | w | 1977 | Victory in the Pacific (1977), Magic Realm (1979), Gunslinger (1982), Merchant of Venus (1988) |
| 30 | William "Bill" Caveny | Eberle | 1977 | poet, programmer and database developer, designer of Cosmic Encounter (1977), Dune (1979) and Borderlands (1982) with Peter Olotka and Jack Kittredge | |
| 31 | Steven "Steeve" Gary | Jackson | w | 1977 | Ogre (1977), Melee (1977), G.E.V. (1978), Car Wars (1981), Illuminati (1987), Munchkin (2001) |
| 32 | Thomas "Tom" | Wham | 1979 | The Awful Green Things From Outer Space (1979), Kings & Things (1986), Iron Dragon (1994), Feudality (2011) | |
| 37 | Marco Alberto | Donadoni | w | 1979 | the main designer of famous "International Team": Zargo's Lords (1979), Colonisator: The Twelve Planets' War (1979), VII Legio (1982), The Game of Medici (1982) |
| 39 | François Xavier | Nédelec | r | 1979 | designer of the Space Opera role-playing game Empire Galactique (1984) ; Colonisator: The Twelve Planets' War (1979), Mai 68 (1980), El Dorado (1981) |
| 34 | Christian | Freeling | a | 1980 | the creator of MindSports The ArenA ; Havannah (1980), Emergo (1986), Grand Chess (1987), Dameo (2000) |
| 35 | Jean-Jacques | Petit | w | 1980 | RPG designer and a pioneer of French wargame after Jean-Pierre Défieux ; Bataille de Fleurus (1980), Bataille de Valmy (1981), Bataille de la Marne 1914 (1982), Les Aigles (1990) |
| 41 | Duccio | Vitale | 1980 | French designer: Mai 68 (1980) with François Nédelec, Condottiere (1995) and Serenissima (1996) with Dominique Ehrhard, Fief 2 (1989), Kharkov 1943 (1992) | |
| 33 | Craig | Besinque | w | 1982 | Rommel in the Desert (1982), EastFront (1991), Hellenes: Campaigns of the Peloponnesian War (2009), Triumph & Tragedy (2015) |
| 36 | Darwin Paul | Bromley | 1982 | Empire Builder (1982), Eurorails (1990), Iron Dragon (1994) | |
| 38 | Lewis Errol | Pulsipher | 1982 | Dragon Rage (1982), Britannia (1986) | |
| 40 | Roland | Siegers | a | 1983 | Uisge (1983), Abilene (1983), Restaurant (1987), Pyramidis (1988), Cabale (1999) |
| 42 | Thomas "Tom" | Jolly | 1983 | Wiz-War (1983), Diskwars (1999), Cave Troll (2002), The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire (2016), Battle for Rokugan (2017) | |
| 43 | Harry Grant | Rowland | w | 1983 | Empires in Arms (1983), World in Flames (1985), 7 Ages (2004) |
| 53 | Serge | Laget | 1984 | Le Gang des Traction Avant (1984), Mystery of the Abbey (1995), Mare Nostrum (2003), Shadows over Camelot (2005), Ad Astra (2009), Nidavellir (2020) | |
| 44 | Wolfgang | Kramer | 1985 | Wildlife adventure (1985), Forum Romanum (1988), El Grande (1995), Tikal (1999), Torres (1999), Java (2000), Princes of Florence (2000), Mexica (2002), Raja (2004), Palaces of Carrara (2012), Nauticus (2013) | |
| 46 | Bernd | Brunnhofer | 1985 | Greyhounds (1985), Saint Petersburg (2004) and Stone Age (2008) under the pen name of Michael Tummelhofer, Pantheon (2011) | |
| 49 | Gérard | Mathieu | 1985 | SuperGang (1985), Full Metal Planète (1988), Les Dessous de la ville (1990) | |
| 51 | Don | Greenwood | w | 1985 | Advanced Squad Leader (1985), The Republic of Rome (1990), Breakout: Normandy (1992), Age of Renaissance (1996) |
| 52 | Claude | Leroy | a | 1985 | Gygès (1985), Mana (1987) |
| 45 | Max Jürgen | Kobbert | 1986 | Labyrinth (1986), Master Labyrinth (1991) | |
| 47 | Karl-Heinz | Schmiel | 1986 | co-founder of Hans im Glück with Bernd Brunnhofer ; Die Macher (1986), A la carte (1989), Extrablatt (1991), Was sticht? (1993), Tribune: Primus Inter Pares (2007) | |
| 50 | Urs | Hostettler | 1986 | Kremlin (1986), Tichu (1991), Anno Domini (1998) | |
| 55 | Jervis | Johnson | 1986 | Blood Bowl (1986), Necromunda (1995) | |
| 48 | Richard | Borg | 1987 | Liars Dice (1987), Battle Cry (2000), Wyatt Earp (2001), Memoir '44 (2004), Commands & Colors: Ancients (2006), BattleLore (2006) | |
| 63 | Klaus | Zoch | 1987 | Bausack (1987), Zicke Zacke Hühnerkacke (1998), Zapp Zerapp (2000), Neue Heimat (2007) | |
| 54 | Richard | Launius | 1987 | Arkham Horror (1987-2005-2018), Defenders of the Realm (2010), Elder Sign (2011) | |
| 57 | Jean | Poël (du) | 1987 | Ben Hur (1987), Mare Mediterraneum (1989), Wettstreit der Baumeister (1994), Carabande aka PitchCar (1995), Aeronautika (1996) | |
| 58 | Wolfgang | Riedesser | 1989 | Ave Caesar (1989), Ausgebremst (1993) | |
| 59 | Stephen | Baker | 1989 | HeroQuest (1989), Space Crusade (1990), Battle Masters (1992), Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie (2004) | |
| 61 | Andrew J. | Looney | a | 1989 | Icehouse (1989), Fluxx (1997), Chrononauts (2000), Zendo (2001) |
| 56 | Klaus | Teuber | 1990 | Adel Verpflichtet (1990), Drunter und Drüber (1991), Catan (1995), Entdecker (1996), Löwenherz (1997) | |
| 62 | Frank | Nestel | 1990 | Igel Ärgern (1990), Mü & More (1995), Primordial Soup (1997), Frank's Zoo (1999), Urland (2001) | |
| 66 | Bruno | Faidutti | 1990 | anti-astrology activist (p.c.) ; Alpages: La guerre des moutons (1990), Tempête sur l'Echiquier (1991), Vallée des Mammouths (1991), Citadelles (2000) | |
| 60 | Reiner Walter | Knizia | 1992 | Modern Art (1992), Medici (1995), Tigris & Euphrates (1997), Samurai (1998), Through the Desert (1998), Ra (1999), Schotten Totten (1999), Lost Cities (1999), Taj Mahal (2000), Amun-Re (2003), The Quest for El Dorado (2017) | |
| 64 | Alan Richard | Moon | 1992 | Elfenroads (1992), Elfenland (1998), Union Pacific (1999), Santa Fe Rails (2001), San Marco (2001), Capitol (2001), New England (2003), Ticket to Ride (2004), Oasis (2004) | |
| 75 | Dirk | Henn | 1992 | The Rose King (1992), Timbuktu (1993), Show Manager (1996), Wallenstein (2002), Alhambra (2003), Shogun (2006) | |
| 80 | Rüdiger | Dorn | 1992 | Cameo (1992), Genoa (2001), Goa (2004), Louis XIV (2005), Arkadia (2006), Dragonheart (2010), Istanbul (2014), Karuba (2015) | |
| 67 | Mark | Herman | w | 1993 | We the People (1993), For the People (1998), Empire of the Sun (2005), Washington's War (2010), Churchill (2015) |
| 78 | Richard Channing | Garfield | 1993 | Magic: The Gathering (1993), RoboRally (1994), Netrunner (1996), King of Tokyo (2011), Android: Netrunner (2012), Bunny Kingdom (2017) | |
| 79 | Andy | Chambers | 1993 | Warhammer 40,000: 2nd-3rd-4th Eds. (1993-2004), Necromunda (1995), Space Hulk 2nd Ed. (1996), Blood Red Skies (2017) | |
| 65 | Michael | Sohre | 1994 | Cubicado (1994), Tri-Ba-Lance (1995), Fire (1996) | |
| 68 | Thomas "Tom" | Lehmann | 1994 | Age of Exploration (1994), 1846: The Race for the Midwest (2005), Race for the Galaxy (2007), Roll for the Galaxy (2014), Res Arcana (2019) | |
| 77 | Andreas | Seyfarth | 1994 | Manhattan (1994), Puerto Rico (2002), San Juan (2004), Thurn and Taxis (2006) | |
| 72 | Niek | Neuwahl | a | 1995 | Aztec (1995), Pitagoras (1996), Ta Yü (1999) |
| 69 | Richard | Breese | 1995 | Keywood (1995), Keydom (1998), Morgenland (2000), Keythedral (2002), Reef Encounter (2004), Key Market (2010), Keyflower (2012), Keyper (2017), Key Flow (2018) | |
| 70 | Dominique | Ehrhard | 1995 | painter and designer of Condottiere (1995), Serenissima aka Méditerranée (1996), Marrakech (2007), Sylla (2008), Boomerang (2010), Panic Lab (2012) | |
| 71 | Stefan H. | Dorra | 1995 | Linie 1 (1995), Yucata (1996), MarraCash (1996), For Sale (1997), Land Unter (1997), Nyet! (1997), Medina (2001), Die Sieben Siegel (2003), Kreta (2005) | |
| 76 | Günter | Cornett | a | 1995 | The Bottle Imp (1995), Kahuna (1998), Autoscooter (1999), Kanaloa (2002), Penguin aka Hey, That's My Fish! (2003) with Alvydas Jakeliunas, Chinagold (2004) |
| 81 | Charles | Vasey | w | 1995 | The Flowers of the Forest (1995), Chariot Lords (1999), Unhappy King Charles (2008) |
| 73 | Kris | Burm | a | 1996 | the master of abstract games: Gipf (1996), Zèrtz (1999), Elcanto (2000), Dvonn (2001), Yinsh (2003), Pünct (2005), Tzaar (2007), Lyngk (2017) |
| 74 | Mark | Simonitch | w | 1996 | Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage (1996), Successors (1997-2008) |
| 82 | James | Ernest | 1996 | Kill Doctor Lucky (1996), Brawl (1999), Pirates of the Spanish Main (2004), Lords of Vegas (2010), Tak (2017) | |
| 83 | Jacques | Zeimet | 1996 | Bamboleo (1996), Hamsterrolle (2000), Ghost Blitz (2010) | |
| 100 | Uwe | Rosenberg | 1997 | Bohnanza (1997), Mamma Mia (1998), Agricola (2007), Le Havre (2008), Loyang (2009), Merkator (2010), Ora et Labora (2011), Glass Road (2013), Caverna (2013), Patchwork (2014), Fields of Arle (2014), A Feast for Odin (2016) | |
| 101 | Christian Thomas | Petersen | 1997 | Twilight Imperium (1997-2000-05-17), Battlemist (1998), A Game of Thrones (2003), Star Wars: Armada (2015) | |
| 89 | Frédéric | Bey | w | 1998 | the French maestro of wargames: Rivoli 1797 (1998), Au fil de l'épée (2002), Aspern-Essling 1809 (2009), Fuentes de Onoro 1811 (2011) |
| 90 | Martin | Wallace | 1998 | Liberté (1998), Volldampf (2001), Age of Steam (2002), Struggle of Empires (2004), Railways of the World (2005), Brass (2007), Steam (2009), God's Playground (2009), London (2010), A Few Acres of Snow (2011), Brass: Birmingham (2018) | |
| 102 | Reinhard | Staupe | 1998 | Colorado County (1998), Basari (1998), Edel, Stein & Reich (2003), Havana (2009), 7 Steps (2014) | |
| 103 | Corné | Moorsel (van) | 1998 | Nasca (1998), Isi (1999), Morisi (2000), StreetSoccer (2002), Logistico (2003), Factory Fun (2006), Habitats (2016), Nova Luna (2019) | |
| 105 | Marcel-André | Casasola Merkle | 1998 | Verräter (1998), Meuterer (2000), Attika (2003), Taluva (2006) | |
| 85 | Franz-Benno | Delonge | 1999 | Big City (1999), TransAmerica (2001), Dos Rios (2004), Manila (2005), Container (2007) | |
| 86 | Ted Samuel | Raicer | w | 1999 | Paths of Glory (1999), Reds! The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 (2001), World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin (2002), The Dark Valley (2013) |
| 87 | Philippe | Keyaerts | 1999 | Vinci (1999), Evo (2001), Small World (2009), Olympos (2011), Twin Tin Bots (2013) | |
| 106 | Joris | Wiersinga | 1999 | Bus (1999), Roads & Boats (1999), Ur: 1830 BC (2001), Antiquity (2004), Indonesia (2005), Greed Incorporated (2009), The Great Zimbabwe (2012), Food Chain Magnate (2015) with Jeroen Doumen | |
| 107 | Jeroen | Doumen | 1999 | Bus (1999), Roads & Boats (1999), Ur: 1830 BC (2001), Antiquity (2004), Indonesia (2005), Greed Incorporated (2009), The Great Zimbabwe (2012), Food Chain Magnate (2015) with Joris Wiersinga | |
| 84 | Martin | Schlegel | 2000 | M (2000), Aqua Romana (2005), Bangkok Klongs (2010), Atacama (2013), Adiós Calavera (2017) | |
| 88 | John | Yianni | a | 2000 | Hive (2000), Army of Frogs (2007), Tatsu (2016) |
| 92 | Bernard | Tavitian | a | 2000 | Blokus (2000), Blokus Trigon (2006) |
| 93 | Roberto | Fraga | 2000 | French designer: Les Dragons du Mékong aka River Dragons (2000), Dancing Eggs (2003), Captain Sonar (2016) | |
| 94 | Klaus-Jürgen | Wrede | 2000 | Carcassonne (2000), Carcassonne: The Castle (2003), The Downfall of Pompeii (2004), Rapa Nui (2011) | |
| 95 | Leo | Colovini | 2000 | Cartagena (2000), Carolus Magnus (2000), Vabanque (2001), Clans (2002), The Bridges of Shangri-La (2003), Go West (2005), Masons (2006) | |
| 96 | Michael | Schacht | 2000 | Web of Power (2000), Serengeti (2001), Dschunke (2002), Magna Grecia (2003), Richelieu (2003), Coloretto (2003), Felinia (2010) | |
| 108 | Robert "Rob" | Daviau | 2000 | Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit (2000), Betrayal at House on the Hill (2004), Heroscape Master Set (2004), Risk Legacy (2011), Pandemic Legacy 1 (2015), Pandemic Legacy 2 (2017), Cthulhu: Death May Die (2019) | |
| 91 | Philippe | Pallières (des) | 2001 | Les Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux (2001), La Guerre des Moutons (2002), Shazamm (2003) | |
| 97 | Günter | Burkhardt | 2001 | Kupferkessel Co. (2001), Maori (2009), Seeland (2010), Ulm (2016) | |
| 98 | Volko | Ruhnke | w | 2001 | Wilderness War (2001), Labyrinth: The War on Terror (2010), Andean Abyss (2012), Cuba Libre (2013), A Distant Plain (2013), Fire in the Lake (2014), Falling Sky (2016), Pendragon (2017) |
| 99 | Francesco | Nepitello | 2001 | X-Bugs (2001) with Marco Maggi, War of the Ring (2004), War of the Ring: 2nd Ed (2012) and The Battle of Five Armies (2014) also with Roberto di Meglio | |
| 104 | Friedemann | Friese | 2001 | Funkenschlag (2001), Fearsome Floors (2003), Power Grid (2004), Mégawatts (2008), Friday (2011), Faiyum (2020) | |
| 109 | Spartaco | Albertarelli | 2002 | Dice Run (2002), Coyote (2003), Dust (2007), VektoRace (2018) | |
| 113 | Cameron Bolitho | Browne | a | 2002 | Akron (2002), Margo (2006), Yavalath (2007) ; author of "Connection Games" (Wellesley, MA, 2005) |
| 131 | Régis | Bonnessée | 2002 | Himalaya (2002), Seasons (2012), Dice Forge (2017) | |
| 112 | Glenn | Drover | 2003 | Age of Mythology (2003), Conquest of the Empire (2005), Railways of the World (2005), Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery (2007), Raccoon Tycoon (2018) | |
| 114 | Andreas | Steding | 2003 | Kogge (2003), Hansa Teutonica (2009), Firenze (2010), Norenberc (2010), Gùgōng (2018) | |
| 132 | Kevin | Wilson | 2003 | A Game of Thrones (2003), Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2005), Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game (2010) | |
| 110 | Bruno | Cathala | 2004 | Drôles de Zèbres (2004), Mission: Red Planet (2005), Mr. Jack (2006), Jamaica (2007), Cyclades (2009), 7 Wonders (2010), Five Tribes (2014), Kingdomino (2016), Yamataï (2017) | |
| 116 | Roberto | Meglio (di) | 2004 | War of the Ring (2004), War of the Ring: 2nd Ed (2012), The Battle of Five Armies (2014) with Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi | |
| 117 | Christophe | Boelinger | 2004 | Dungeon Twister (2004), Earth Reborn (2010), Sarena (2011), Archipelago (2012), Living Planet (2019) | |
| 122 | Jens | Drögemüller | 2004 | The Scepter of Zavandor (2004), and with Helge Ostertag: Terra Mystica (2012) and Gaia Project (2017) | |
| 123 | Richard | Sivél | w | 2004 | Friedrich (2004), Maria (2009), Wir sind das Volk (2014) |
| 126 | Emanuele | Ornella | 2004 | Oltre Mare (2004), Il Principe (2005), Hermagor (2006), Assyria (2009), Pioneers (2017) | |
| 133 | Frank | Czarnetzki | 2004 | graphic designer and game designer: Master Thieves (2004), Black Elephant (2004), Marquis (2005), Gangster (2006), Fragile (2006) | |
| 111 | Bowen "Rachel" | Simmons | w | 2005 | Bonaparte at Marengo (2005), Napoleon's Triumph (2007), The Guns of Gettysburg (2013) |
| 118 | Walther "Mac" | Gerdts | 2005 | Antike (2005), Imperial (2006), Hamburgum (2007), The Princes of Machu Picchu (2008), Navegador (2010), Antike Duellum (2012), Concordia (2013) | |
| 128 | Jason | Matthews | w | 2005 | Twilight Struggle (2005), 1960: The Making of the President (2007), 1989: Dawn of Freedom (2012), Imperial Struggle (2020) |
| 134 | William | Attia | 2005 | Caylus (2005), Spyrium (2013) | |
| 135 | Carl | Chudyk | 2005 | Glory to Rome (2005), Innovation (2010), Red7 (2014) | |
| 115 | Mark | Steere | a | 2006 | Cephalopod (2006), Dipole (2007), Atoll (2008), Monkey Queen (2011) |
| 119 | Michael | Rieneck | 2006 | The Pillars of the Earth (2006), Palastgeflüster (2007), Cuba (2007) and World Without End (2009) with Stefan Stadler, Santiago de Cuba (2011), Merlin (2017) | |
| 120 | Vladimír "Vlaada" | Chvátil | 2006 | Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization (2006), Galaxy Trucker (2007), Space Alert (2008), Dungeon Lords (2009), Mage Knight Board Game (2011), Dungeon Petz (2011), Tash-Kalar (2013), TTA: A New Story of Civilization (2015), Codenames (2015) | |
| 124 | Chad Erik | Jensen | w | 2006 | Combat Commander: Europe (2006), Combat Commander: Pacific (2008), Dominant Species (2010) |
| 127 | Sébastien | Pauchon | 2006 | pool player, author of a book on billiards (2001), designer of Yspahan (2006), Jamaica (2007), Metropolys (2008), Jaipur (2009), Corto (2013) | |
| 136 | Virginio | Gigli | 2006 | Leonardo da Vinci (2006), Egizia (2009), Lorenzo il Magnifico (2016), Coimbra (2018) and Terramara (2019) with Flaminia Brasini, Grand Austria Hotel (2015) | |
| 137 | Edward "Ed" | Beach | w | 2006 | Here I Stand (2006), Virgin Queen (2012), also designer of video game Civilization VI |
| 138 | Michal | Oracz | 2006 | Neuroshima Hex (2006), This War of Mine (2017), Etherfields (2020) | |
| 139 | Sebastian | Bleasdale | 2006 | On the Underground (2006), Keyflower (2012), Black Fleet (2014), Lemminge (2014), Key Flow (2018) | |
| 121 | Michael | Kiesling | 2007 | Vikings (2007), Cavum (2008), Artus (2011), Coal Baron (2013), Porta Nigra (2015), Heaven & Ale (2017), Azul (2017) and many others with Wolfgang Kramer | |
| 125 | Phil | Eklund | 2007 | Origins: How We Became Human (2007), High Frontier (2010), Pax Porfiriana (2012), Neanderthal (2015), Pax Pamir (2015), Pax Renaissance (2016), Pax Emancipation (2018) | |
| 129 | Andrea | Chiarvesio | 2007 | Kingsburg (2007), Hyperborea (2014), Signorie (2015) | |
| 130 | Stefan | Feld | 2007 | Year of Dragon (2007), Macao (2009), Castles of Burgundy (2011), Trajan (2011), Bora Bora (2013), Bruges (2013), Amerigo (2013), Oracle of Delphi (2016), Carpe Diem (2018), Bonfire (2020) | |
| 144 | Vladimír | Suchý | 2007 | League of Six (2007), Shipyard (2009), Last Will (2011), The Prodigals Club (2015), Pulsar 2849 (2017), Underwater Cities (2018), Praga Caput Regni (2020) | |
| 141 | Bernd | Eisenstein | 2008 | Pack & Stack (2008), Alea Iacta Est (2009), Peloponnes (2009), PAX (2011), Pandoria (2018) | |
| 142 | Donald X. | Vaccarino | 2008 | Dominion (2008), Dominion: Intrigue (2009), Kingdom Builder (2011) | |
| 147 | Matt | Leacock | 2008 | Pandemic (2008), Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age (2008), Forbidden Desert (2013), Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015) | |
| 151 | Inka | Brand | 2008 | A Castle for All Seasons (2008), Village (2011), Murano (2014), Exit (2016), Rajas of the Ganges (2017), Rise of Queensdale (2018) all with Markus Brand | |
| 152 | Markus | Brand | 2008 | A Castle for All Seasons (2008), Village (2011), Murano (2014), Exit (2016), Rajas of the Ganges (2017), Rise of Queensdale (2018) all with Inka Brand | |
| 155 | Corey | Konieczka | 2008 | Battlestar Galactica (2008), Runewars (2010), Eldritch Horror (2013), Star Wars: Imperial Assault (2014), Star Wars: Rebellion (2016) | |
| 159 | Phil | Walker-Harding | 2008 | Cannonball Colony (2008), Sushi Go! (2013), Cacao (2015), Imhotep (2016), Bärenpark (2017), Gizmos (2018), Imhotep: The Duel (2018) | |
| 160 | Antoine | Bauza | 2008 | Ghost Stories (2008), 7 Wonders (2010), Hanabi (2010), Takenoko (2011), 7 Wonders Duel (2015) | |
| 146 | Mike | Elliott | 2009 | Thunderstone (2009), Battle Spirits: Trading Card Game (2009), Quarriors (2011), Dice Masters (2014), also designer of expansions for Magic (1993) | |
| 148 | Xavier | Georges | 2009 | Carson City (2009), Ginkgopolis (2012), also Troyes (2010), Tournay (2011) and Black Angel (2019) with Sébastien Dujardin and Alain Orban | |
| 149 | Néstor | Romeral Andrés | a | 2009 | Adaptoid (2009), Onager (2012), Quantum Leap (2013), Pent-Up (2014), Flink (2016), Ni-Ju (2016), Greener (2017) |
| 150 | Eric M. | Lang | 2009 | Chaos in the Old World (2009), Quarriors (2011), Arcadia Quest (2014), Blood Rage (2015), The Godfather: Corleone's Empire (2017), Rising Sun (2018) | |
| 153 | Philip | Dubarry | 2009 | Revolution (2009), Courtier (2012), Kingdom of Solomon (2012), Spirits of the Rice Paddy (2015), Black Orchestra (2016) | |
| 154 | Ignacy | Trzewiczek | 2009 | Stronghold (2009), Prêt-à-Porter (2010), The New Era (2011), Robinson Crusoe (2012), Imperial Settlers (2014), Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game (2018) | |
| 156 | Paolo | Mori | 2009 | Vasco da Gama (2009), Libertalia (2012), Augustus (2013), Dogs of War (2014), Ethnos (2017) | |
| 176 | Seiji | Kanai | 2009 | Chronicle (2009), Love Letter (2012), Unicornus Knights (2016) | |
| 140 | Vital | Lacerda | 2010 | Vinhos (2010), CO2 (2012), Kanban (2014), The Gallerist (2015), Lisboa (2017), Escape Plan (2019), On Mars (2020) | |
| 143 | Dieter | Stein | a | 2010 | Volo (2010), Mixtour (2011), Fendo (2014), Tintas (2016), Urbino (2017) |
| 145 | Matthias | Cramer | 2010 | Glen More (2010), Lancaster (2011), Helvetia (2011), Rococo (2013), Kraftwagen (2015), Glen More II: Chronicles (2019), Watergate (2019) | |
| 157 | Shadi | Torbey | 2010 | Belgian opera bass singer, designer of Onirim (2010), Sylvion (2015), Aerion (2019) | |
| 158 | Nick | Bentley | a | 2010 | Catchup (2010), Stinker (2015), Circle of Life (2015), Blooms (2018), Oceans (2020) |
| 161 | Christian | Marcussen | 2010 | Danish designer: Merchants & Marauders (2010), Clash of Cultures (2012) | |
| 162 | Leonhard "Lonny" | Orgler | 2010 | Poseidon (2010) and Russian Railroads (2013) with Helmut Ohley, 18CZ (2017) | |
| 186 | Sébastien | Dujardin | 2010 | Troyes (2010), Tournay (2011) and Black Angel (2019) with Xavier Georges and Alain Orban, Deus (2014), Solenia (2018) | |
| 163 | Jacob | Fryxelius | 2011 | Space Station (2011), Terraforming Mars (2016), After The Virus (2017) | |
| 164 | Ted | Alspach | 2012 | Suburbia (2012), Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2014) | |
| 167 | Simone | Luciani | 2012 | Tzolk'in (2012), The Voyages of Marco Polo (2015), Council of 4 (2015), Grand Austria Hotel (2015), Lorenzo il Magnifico (2016), Newton (2018), Barrage (2019) | |
| 172 | Ryan | Laukat | 2012 | Empires of the Void (2012), Above and Below (2015), Islebound (2016), Near and Far (2017) | |
| 173 | Daniele | Tascini | 2012 | Tzolk'in (2012), The Voyages of Marco Polo (2015), Council of 4 (2015), Teotihuacan: City of Gods (2018), Trismegistus (2019), Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun (2020) | |
| 174 | Hisashi | Hayashi | 2012 | Trains (2012), Trains: Rising Sun (2014), Yokohama (2016) | |
| 175 | Adam | Carlson | 2012 | Hoplomachus: The Lost Cities (2012), Too Many Bones (2017), Too Many Bones: Undertow (2018), Cloudspire (2019) | |
| 177 | Jerry | Hawthorne | 2012 | Mice and Mystics (2012), Stuffed Fables (2018), Aftermath (2019) | |
| 168 | Ludovic | Roudy | 2013 | 8 Masters' Revenge (2013), The 7th Continent (2017), Just One (2018) and The 7th Citadel (2022) with Bruno Sautter | |
| 169 | Cédrick | Chaboussit | 2013 | Lewis & Clark (2013), Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (2015) | |
| 170 | Paulo | Soledade | 2013 | Madeira (2013), Panamax (2014) and Nippon (2015) with Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro | |
| 178 | Nuno | Bizarro Sentieiro | 2013 | Madeira (2013), Panamax (2014) and Nippon (2015) with Paulo Soledade | |
| 180 | Jamey | Stegmaier | 2013 | Viticulture (2013), Euphoria (2013), Scythe (2016), Charterstone (2017), Tapestry (2019) | |
| 165 | Reiner | Stockhausen | 2014 | Orléans (2014), Altiplano (2017) | |
| 166 | Pierluca | Zizzi | 2014 | Hyperborea (2014), Signorie (2015), Barbarians: The Invasion (2018), Tang Garden (2020) | |
| 171 | Tim | Fowers | 2014 | video game designer, and designer of Paperback (2014) and Burgle Bros. (2015) | |
| 179 | Juma | Al-JouJou | 2014 | German designer: Green Deal (2014), Clans of Caledonia (2017) | |
| 181 | Scott | Almes | 2014 | Tiny Epic Kingdoms (2014), Tiny Epic Galaxies (2015), Heroes of Land, Air & Sea (2018) | |
| 182 | Marco | Canetta | 2014 | ZhanGuo (2014) and Railroad Revolution (2016) with Stefania Niccolini | |
| 183 | Jonathan | Gilmour | 2014 | Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game (2014), Dinosaur Island (2017), Path of Light and Shadow (2017) | |
| 184 | Stefan | Risthaus | 2014 | Arkwright (2014), Gentes (2017) | |
| 185 | Andreas | Odendahl | 2014 | La Granja (2014) and Solarius Mission (2016) with Michael Keller, Cooper Island (2019) | |
| 187 | Alexander | Pfister | 2015 | Mombasa (2015), Isle of Skye (2015), Broom Service (2015), Great Western Trail (2016), Blackout: Hong Kong (2018), Maracaibo (2019) | |
| 188 | Yukinori "Emerson" | Matsuuchi | 2015 | Specter Ops (2015), Century: Spice Road (2017), Reef (2018) | |
| 190 | Kristian Roald | Amundsen Østby | 2015 | Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2012), Automania (2015) and Santa Maria (2017), The Magnificent (2019) and Trails of Tucana (2019) with Eilif Svensson | |
| 192 | Isaac | Childres | 2015 | Forge War (2015), Gloomhaven (2017), Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion (2020) | |
| 194 | Viktor | Péter | 2015 | Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (2015), Anachrony (2017) and Cerebria: The Inside World (2018) with Richard Amann | |
| 195 | Cole | Wehrle | 2015 | Pax Pamir (2015), John Company (2017), Root (2018), Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile (2021) | |
| 196 | Matthew | Dunstan | 2015 | Elysium (2015), Pioneer Days (2017), Monumental (2020) | |
| 197 | Shem | Phillips | 2015 | Raiders of the North Sea (2015), Explorers of the North Sea (2016), Architects of the West Kingdom (2018), Paladins of the West Kingdom (2019), Viscounts of the West Kingdom (2020), Raiders of Scythia (2020) | |
| 189 | Keith | Matejka | 2016 | Roll Player (2016), Herbaceous (2017), Skulk Hollow (2019) | |
| 198 | David | Turczi | 2016 | specialist of solo modes, designer of Days of Ire: Budapest 1956 (2016), Anachrony (2017), and with Daniele Tascini : Tekhenu (2020) and Tawantinsuyu (2020) | |
| 193 | Wolfgang | Warsch | 2018 | The Quacks of Quedlinburg (2018), The Mind (2018), That's Pretty Clever! (2018), The Taverns of Tiefenthal (2019) | |
| 199 | David | Thompson | 2018 | Pavlov's House (2018), and with Trevor Benjamin: War Chest (2018) and Undaunted: Normandy (2019) | |
| 191 | Martino | Chiacchiera | 2018 | Barbarians: The Invasion (2018), Mysthea (2019), Icaion (2020) | |
| 200 | Elizabeth | Hargrave | 2019 | Wingspan (2019), Mariposas (2020) |
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Birth Data of 200 successful Designers http://cura.free.fr/2020/bgdesignersap.html Nice, 16-01-2021 ; updated 25-02-2021 © C.U.R.A., 2021, Dr. Patrice Guinard |
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