For the Love of Board Games

by Erin Dean

Overview

For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games. Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others. Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed but how they started playing board games and got involved in the industry. Designers will also reveal stories about board games they designed, but never published! Readers will discover the fun facts and challenges behind some of their favorite board games. For the Love of Board Games is a must-have gift for tabletop gamers of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543954258
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	03/03/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	638 KB

About the Author

Growing up, Erin Dean played traditional mass market games, like Monopoly, Life, and Trouble. In high school, she was gifted Ticket to Ride and that's when she fell in love with the board gaming hobby.In the past, she has worked at Pieces: The St. Louis Board Game Bar & Cafe as a Game Navigator, as well as Genius Games, a St. Louis board game publishing company, as a Video Intern. She is currently the Social Media Manager for Lucky Duck Games. In the Spring of 2017, Erin released a short board game documentary on YouTube called, "The Board Game Boom," which has over 30,000 organic views so far.For the Love of Board Games is Erin's first book and a huge passion project for her. She hopes her book will help readers discover fun facts and stories behind some of their favorite designers and their board games.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments i

Foreword iii

Jeffrey Alters 1

Ted Alspach 7

Kristian Amundsen Østby 10

Antoine Bauza 15

Åse and Henrik Berg 19

Bernd Brunnhofer 24

Marco Canetta and Stefania Niccolini 26

Scott Caputo 33

Bruno Cathala 45

Isaac Childres 48

Dominic Crapuchettes 54

Chris Darsaklis 56

Evan Derrick 63

Glenn Drover 66

Geoffrey Engelstein 70

Don Eskridge 79

Bruno Faidutti 83

Tim Fowers 86

Roberto Fraga 91

Jacob Fryxelius 96

Richard Garfield 101

Mac (Walther) Gerdts 117

Jonathan Gilmour 121

Bruce Glassco 124

Ken Gruhl 131

Elizabeth Hargrave 136

Seiji Kanai 139

Kane Klenko 142

Reiner Knizia 150

Carla Kopp 157

Wolfgang Kramer 166

Ryan Laukat 169

Richard Launius 174

Matt Leacock 182

Sen-Foong Lim 185

Devin Low 193

Keith Matejka 199

Emerson Matsuuchi 205

Jason Matthews 211

Helge Ostertag 214

Sébastien Pauchon 220

Alexander Pfister 227

Shem Phillips 232

Shimpei Sato 236

Michael Schacht 239

Jamey Stegmaier 243

Daniele Tascini 246

Rodney Thompson 253

David Turczi 260

Alexandr Ushan 263

Phil Walker-Harding 270

Martin Wallace 275

Jonathan Ying 279

Index of Games and Designers 289