Board Game designer Alf Seegert with his game Trollhalla
Alf's board games include...
BRIDGE TROLL
TROLLHALLA
THE ROAD TO CANTERBURY
Alf Seegert is an internationally published designer of Euro-style strategy games. His board games have been featured in WIRED Magazine, The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian UK, MTV Geek, The Onion AV Club, The Huffington Post, and TheOneRing.net.
Alf has been designing board games since 2001. He has noticed a strange decline in sleep that began.... in 2001. Five of his designs have been end-round finalists at the annual Hippodice board game design competition in Bochum, Germany: The Vapors of Delphi (2nd place, 2004), Bridge Troll (end-round finalist, 2005 -- later published by Z-Man Games), Ziggurat (end-round finalist, 2005), Mont-Saint Michel (end-round "Recommended Title," 2007), and TEMBO (3rd place, 2008 -- later published by Z-Man Games as Trollhalla).
Alf enjoys designing games with unusual and irreverent themes, and when possible, which allow the players to play fantastical characters or villains. His first published title, BRIDGE TROLL, was released in 2009 by Z-Man Games. His second game, TROLLHALLA, was released in spring 2011, also by Z-Man Games.
In Alf's latest game, players get to play the bad guy again, this time troll-free, in a parody inspired by Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, THE ROAD TO CANTERBURY: a game of Pilgrims, Pardoners, and the Seven Deadly Sins -- now available from FRED/Gryphon Games.
Stay tuned for details on Alf's newest game, FANTASTIQA, which will be published by Gryphon Games in 2012.
Alf is a member of the Board Game Designers Guild of Utah: http://www.bgdg.info
Alf holds a masters degree in Philosophy and an MA and PhD in Literature. He is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in English at the University of Utah.
See his homepage at http://www.alfseegert.com.
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