List of game designers
- This page primarily is meant to list non-video game designers. Please see list of computer and video game industry people for a list of well-known video game designers.
A game designer is a person who invents games at the conceptual level. Most game designers are "unsung"; for example, no one knows who invented Chess or Hearts.
However, there are many public figures in game design, including commercial game developers and game-inventing mathematicians.
Some game designers include:
- Dave Arneson
- John Horton Conway
- Monte Cook
- James Ernest
- Richard Garfield
- Andrew Greenberg
- Ed Greenwood
- Gary Gygax
- Larry Harris
- Steve Jackson (UK)
- Steve Jackson (USA)
- Cliff Johnson
- Albert Lamorisse
- Andrew Looney
- Alan R. Moon
- Henrique Olifiers
- Mike Selinker
- Jonathan Tweet
- Michael J. Varhola
- Mark H. Walker
- Jordan Weisman
- Tom Wham
- Skip Williams
- K. Douglas Woolsey
Board game designers
- William Attia (Caylus)
- Richard Breese (Aladdin's Dragons, Keythedral, Reef Encounter)
- Kris Burm (Batik, GIPF, ZÈRTZ, DVONN, TAMSK, YINSH, PÜNCT)
- Leo Colovini (Clans, Carolus Magnus, Cartagena, Doge, The Bridges of Shangri-La, Magna Grecia, Inkognito)
- Franz-Benno Delonge (Big City, Manila, Dos Rios, TransAmerica, Fjords)
- Rudiger Dorn (The Traders of Genoa, Louis XIV, Goa)
- Stefan Dorra (For Sale, Pick Picnic, Medina, Tonga Bonga, Linie 1, Turn the Tide, Intrige)
- Bruno Faidutti (Citadels, Mystery of the Abbey,Terra)
- Friedemann Friese (Power Grid, Fearsome Floors, Fresh Fish)
- Dirk Henn (Alhambra, Atlantic Star, Metro, Wallenstein, Timbuktu)
- Philippe Keyaerts (Evo, Vinci)
- Reiner Knizia (Ra, Modern Art, Tigris and Euphrates, Samurai, Lost Cities, Schotten Totten, Blue Moon, The Lord of the Rings)
- Wolfgang Kramer (El Grande, Java, Mexica, Tikal, Princes of Florence, Torres)
- Alan R. Moon (Capitol, Elfenland, Union Pacific, Ticket to Ride)
- Paul Randles (Pirate's Cove, Key Largo)
- Alex Randolph (Twixt, Raj, Geister, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robots)
- Ken Rolston, part of the core team at West End Games
- Sid Sackson (Acquire, Can't Stop, Kohle, Kies & Knete)
- Michael Schacht (Web of Power, Dschunke, Industria, Hansa)
- Karl-Heinz Schmiel (Attila, Die Macher)
- Andreas Seyfarth (Manhattan, Puerto Rico)
- Daniel Stahl (Pirate's Cove)
- Jerry Taylor (Hammer of the Scots, Crusader Rex)
- Klaus Teuber (The Settlers of Catan, Adel Verpflichtet, Entdecker,Löwenherz)
- Martin Wallace (Liberte, Age of Steam, Struggle of Empires, Princes of the Renaissance)
- Klaus-Jürgen Wrede (Carcassonne)
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