GLA #6: Rising Stars in Boardgame Design
The last issue of GeekListAggregator focussed on GeekLists submitted by game designers. GLA #6 will look at lists about boardgame designers. Several GeekLists deal with the artisans of our hobby: the established and successful designers, wargame designers as well as the rising stars in boardgame design.
GeekList #5937: The best board game designers - as chosen by Boardgamegeek by Tom Vasel
Based on the total average Geek-rating for all their games and expansions, Tom Vasel has found the best designers. The actual disclaimer is a little bit more complicated, but Tom explains it well. #5397 compiles the who-is-who and truely describes the current boardgame designer "establishment": Andreas Seyfarth, Richard Ulrich, Reiner Knizia, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Francis Tresham, Martin Wallace, Rüdiger Dorn, Klaus Teuber, Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling, Richard Borg, Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka, Dirk Henn, Friedemann Friese, Marcel-Andre Casasola Merkle, Richard Garfield, Rob Davieu, Sid Sackson, Steffan Dorra, Alan Moon, Michael Schacht, Frank Nestel, Uwe Rosenberg and Don Greenwood. Wow, what a list!
GeekList #11140: Rising Stars by Andy Parsons
Andy Parson has compiled this list to predict the designing stars of the future. He also takes the approach of using Geek ratings. His query included all designers who published one game in 2004/2005 with a rating of 6.5 or higher and who published not more than one or two games since 2000 with the same rating. This is a very promising list and it will be interesting to see how these predictions compare to the future reality of, say, 2008.
GeekList #5910: One Hit Wonders! Designers and/or publishers with only one credit on BGG by Thomas Eager
Thomas Eager has compiled a list of designers (or publishers) with only one game credit on BoardGameGeek. Compare this list to the One Hit Wonder's in Music.
GeekList #7253: Five Wargame Designers to Watch by M. Kirschenbaum
Unfortunately, I am not a wargamer. Some ten years ago we played Battletech and a few tabletops but this time is long gone. I am posting this list since it relates nicely to the topic and contains a lot of feedback and discussion. M. Kirschenbaum gives a subjective list of five wargame designers to watch out for: Bowen Simmons, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, Ben Hull, Adam Starkweather, and Markus Stumptner. The list was extended by several others and now includes Renaud Verlaque and Richard Sivèl.