Designer Spotlights

Scott Caputo has designed a handful of great tile-laying games over the years, and he has been kind enough to ...
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Mac Gerdts is a designer from Hamburg (Germany) known for using the rondel action selection system in a lot of ...
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Stefan Malz has been designing games mostly with his son Louis. Most known games are probably Rococo (with Matthias Cramer) ...
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Dávid Turczi is one of the most diverse designers out there. He keeps on making completely different games with different ...
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Ignacy Trzewiczek is the cookie loving mastermind behind Portal Games. He has designed several great games, including one of my ...
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Asger Harding Granerud is the designer behind the smash hits Flamme Rouge and 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis. He's also ...
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Bruno Faidutti is one of the legends in the boardgame industry. He has designed so many great games and a ...
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You might not know who Matthew Dunstan is, but soon you will. He designed 2 games I very much enjoy ...
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Phil Walker-Harding is the man behind some of my favourite lighter games. Actually 3 of them are games I play ...
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Matt Leacock the man behind the number one game on BoardGameGeek Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is one of the hottest names ...
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Jonathan Gilmour is the man behind many great games, most noticeably the fantastic game Dead of Winter. He also made a great ...
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Alexander Pfister has designed a lot of great games in a short amount of time. Chief among them is Broom Service that won ...
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Richard Breese was probably the person who invented worker placement as a mechanic and has created many fantastic games including the ...
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Bruno Cathala is not only a great designer, but also a nice funny guy. He's the man behind some of ...
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Isaias Vallejo the genius behind one of my most anticipated games of 2016, has been so kind to take some ...
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Shem Philips has designed quite a few games, but probably he's most famous for his design of the "North Sea" saga ...
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The king of awesome and dark sci-fi games has been kind enough to take some time out of designing his ...
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For me two player games have always been a bit of a odd thing. Either they are deeply seated in the ...
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You might not know a lot about Nicolas Sato, but one thing you should know is that he makes great games ...
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This year at the Essen Spiel far, I met up with a designer whom I greatly admire for his merging ...
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Jamey Stegmaier has been behind some of the most successful boardgame Kickstarters, both in terms of critical reception and well ...
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Ryan Laukat has for a long time been one of my favorite designers. He makes very interesting games that are ...
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Ben Harkins is not only a great designer that makes fun thematic games, with different and unique angles than most ...
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