Donna Gregory, Sir Ian Livingstone, John Kovalic

Broschiertes Buch

What Board Games Mean To Me

Beschreibung

Celebrating the role that board games hold in our lives, celebrities, industry professionals and lifelong gamers share the remarkable and personal stories of their profound love for gaming

Autor

A lifelong hobby gamer with a predilection for customising board game sets, DONNA GREGORY spent two decades editing non-board game books before realising she could combine her passion and her profession and edit books about games. Loves dinosaurs, biscuits, and the wild weather of the western Scottish coast where she lives. Ian Livingstone is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975 with Steve Jackson, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe. Ian and Steve co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982: the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series has sold over 18 million copies worldwide. Ian was executive chairman of Eidos until 2002, where he launched global games franchises such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. John Kovalic is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer who has contributed artwork to many game products, including Munchkin, What'Ya Know, and Apples to Apples. He is best known for his Dork Tower comic, and he has also created other humorous works set in and about the fantasy role-playing game genre, such as The Unspeakable Oaf. Kovalic is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post. Dr Reiner Knizia is one of the world’s most successful and prolific board games designers, having designed over 700 published games. Reiner’s games Keltis was awarded the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 2008. His Lord of the Rings board game (2000) is credited with beginning the popular revival of cooperative games, among his many other achievements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aconyte Books
• Paperback Original
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 138mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781839082726
• ISBN-10: 1839082720
• Artikelnr.: 67869764