The Most Prolific Game Designers Of All Time
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Hungary
Budapest
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Have you ever wondered which guys have the most game entries in the BGG database? Let's shed light on the facts!
PS if you know a prolific designer who deserves to be on the list please comment or geekmail me.
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Hungary
Budapest
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Games: ~750
Top ranked: no ranked games
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: 39
Fun fact: He has made available on the Internet hundreds of free rulesets in a plethora of formats, mechanics, and genres.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 297
With Expansions: 312
Top ranked games: Tigris & Euphrates, Ra, Samurai
Profile: Gamer's Games (or Eurogames)
Nationality: German
Age: 52
Fun Fact: He earned a PhD in mathematics and has previously worked in the banking industry.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 141
With expansions: 152
Top ranked: El Grande, The Princes of Florence, Tikal
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: German
Age: 67
Fun Fact: Kramer is also an author of mystery novels.
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Franklin Turner
United States
Fultondale
Alabama
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Games: 129
With Expansions: 153 (which includes players guides and a book on game design.
Age:?
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: American
Top Ranking Games: Successors (3rd edition), The Great Battles of Alexander Deluxe Edition, Pax Romana.
Fun Facts: Berg is trained as a lawyer and has a Hall of Fame Charles S. Roberts award.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 119
With expansions: 119
Top ranked: Igloo Pop, Hula Hippos, Zapp Zerapp
Profile: Children's Games
Nationality: German
Age: ?
Fun fact: He won the German "Spiel des Jahres" prize 8 times.
Geeklist: The Genius That Is
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 113
With expansions: 130
Top ranked ones: Light Speed, The Big Idea, Brawl, Kill Doctor Lucky, Gloria Mundi
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: Ernest originally developed the idea for selling basic games without all the common components while freelancing at Wizards of the Coast during the 1990s. However, Wizards rejected the idea, and in 1995, Ernest quit and started up the company Cheapass Games.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 112
With expansions: 118
Top ranked: Waterloo 20, Zulus on the Ramparts!, NATO, Nukes & Nazis
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: Joseph possesses master's degrees in Criminal Justice and in Political Science. He teaches university courses in terrorism, criminal justice and Middle Eastern conflict, as well as organizing and speaking at numerous professional military history and simulations seminars.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 112
With expansions: 113
Top ranked: Acquire, Can't Stop, I'm The Boss
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Died at the age of 82 in 2002.
Fun fact: Sackson collected games throughout his life; at the time of his death, his collection was estimated at over 18,000 titles. Many of those were unique, sent to him by hopeful game developers who wanted Sackson's advice.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 109
With expansions: 114
Top ranked: Panzergruppe Guderian, Battle for Germany, Empires of the Middle Ages
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: 66
Fun fact: After high school, he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 109
With expansions: 109
Top ranked games: Piratenbillard, Das Spiel, Auf Kurs
Profile: Children's Games, Abstract
Nationality: German
Age: 72
Fun fact: In the African editions of his game, he uses characteristical local materials: leather fixtures, wood carvings, Makalani nuts and semi-precious stones.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 107
With expansions: 107
Top ranked: Ricochet Robots, Twixt, Code 777
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Passed away at the age of 82 (in 2004)
Fun quote:
"... gaming is the opposite of working. Work is something terrible. One should do as litle as this as possible. Culture is fully dependent on non-work (otherwise would it not be culture). Culture is leisure, culture is spare time, including literature, theater etc., a complete separation from the usual life. It is a process of stepping down. And what do you find there? You find life again, but another life where the order has been created by you, and which has a sense. It does not bring anything material with it. All playful forms, like philosophy or matemathics, have certain characteristics, they have order, they have rhythm."
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 104
With expansions: 155
Top ranked: Web of Power, China, Coloretto
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: German
Age: 45
Fun fact: He wrote a geeklist explaining the origins of his games. Read it here.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 90
With expansions: 94
Top ranked: Max, The Secret Doors, Caves & Claws
Profile: Children's Games
Nationality: Canada
Age: ?
Fun fact: He ran his business in the early years in an old farm house with his family.
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Ryan Hackel
United States
Falls Church
Virginia
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Jonathan Leistiko
Austin, Texas
Credited Designs: 91
Most Popular Games: Isle of Doctor Necreaux, Cthul-B-Que, Run Hamster Run, Peep War
Jon has been posting his free print-n-play games at Invisible City Productions, adding a new design nearly every month for almost a decade.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 88
With expansions: 96
Top ranked: A House Divided, Imperium, The Third World War
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: His wikipedia page was obviously written by a fan.
"There is little doubt that, even in the rather busy pantheon of (wargame) industry heroes, Frank Chadwick is a Zeus amongst the Ajaxes. He is one of - if not THE - finest game designer working today."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chadwick
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Christiaan
Netherlands
's-Hertogenbosch
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Games: 73
With expansions: 80
Top ranked games: Ticket to Ride series, Elfenland, San Marco
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun Fact: Has won the SdJ award twice, with Elfenland and Ticket to Ride.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 70
With expansions (scenarios, rulebooks): 141
Top ranked: Illuminati: Deluxe Edition, Ogre, G.E.V., Munchkin Cthulhu
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Age: 54
Fun fact: Lego is one of his favourite "time-wasters".
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 69
With expansions: 70
Top ranked: Situation 4, Scan, The Inventors
Profile: Children's Games
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: He was crazy about security. His office was double-walled and set to the inside of the building so that "spies" could not eavesdrop from the moody bible institute across the street.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 61
With expansions: 61
Top ranked games: Proud Monster: The Barbarossa Campaign, Drive on Stalingrad, NATO, Nukes & Nazis
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: He has spent several years in the intelligence community, after learning Arabic and Russian.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 56
Top ranked: Raid on St. Nazaire, Soldier Kings, Soldier Emperor
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 56
Top ranked: Ausbrecher AG, Dumm Gelaufen!, Panda Monium
Profile: Children's Games
Nationality: German
Age: 65
Fun fact: He works as a journalist.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 55
With expansions: 56
Top ranked: Tunisia, Case Blue, DAK2
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun fact: Has won the Charles S. Roberts Award six times.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 53
With expansions: 56
Top ranked: Citadels, Warrior Knights, Mission: Red Planet
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: French
Age: 47
Fun fact: He is an historian and sociologist.
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 53
With expansions, modules, manuals: 63
Top ranked: We The People, For The People, The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition, Deluxe S.P.Q.R., Pacific War
Profile: Wargames
Nationality: U.S.
Age: ?
Fun quote:
"There are many things that can be simulated in a game and no game that I am aware of handles all of the details of conflict at the same level of detail in a user entertaining manner. A good simulation is one that picks out the key variables with easy to implement systems that let the player(s) manipulate them within an historical context. Additionally, the historical outcome and decisions should in some manner be within the set of game outcomes. In the end all simulations are wrong, but some are useful and hopefully entertaining."
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T A
Hungary
Budapest
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Games: 50
With expansions: 107
Top ranked: The Settlers of Catan, CATAN 3D Collector's Edition, Domaine
Profile: Gamer's Games
Nationality: German
Age: 57
Fun fact: He admires the game designs of Wolfgang Kramer.
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I thought he was joking when he wrote this blurb for his W&W card:
