Alan R. Moon

Alan Richard Moon ( born November 18, 1951 in Southampton ) is a living in the U.S. British game designer. He was twice honored with the Game of the Year.

Life

1967 Moon moved to Canada two years later in the United States. After involuntary military service in the Vietnam War, he studied English and Theatre Studies at Kean College in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1979. During his studies he began articles for Avalon Hills games magazine, The General Magazine to write. After graduation, he was hired as deputy editor and then also all responsible editor. He noted that the development of games was more to him and so he worked in the development department at Avalon Hill. After working in the engineering group for video games at Parker Brothers 1983-1984, he decided to become a freelance game designer. He perfected a own ideas and tried to accommodate them with game publishers, but with little success in the much larger market of the German cultural area. Therefore, in 1991 he aka Mick Ado to the publisher White Wind publish its own games in small editions founded with Peter Gehrmann. He hoped the fact that other publishers would be thus aware of his games and then they would publish games on a larger scale. Since the publisher was not particularly successful, it was 1996/1997 games development manager at the North American division of FX Schmid around there .. to establish a series of games from FX Schmid on the market After FX Schmid was acquired by Ravensburger, he was Director of Games by Ravensburger USA.

Breakthrough as a game designer

After White Wind was disbanded in 1997, Amigo inquired of Moon, if he can develop a simplified version of 1992 published by White Wind game elves Roads. The result was Elfenland 1998 Game of the Year, and thus began Moons big break as a game designer. Since 2000 he is a full-time game designer. 2004 with train to train a second time a game of Moon Game of the Year.

From 2003 to 2005 Moon was the first chairman of the Game Designer Association. Alan R. Moon has been married to his wife Janet Niver since 14 February 2004.

Awards

  • Game of the Year Gravy Train & Co: Selection List 1996
  • Elfland: 1998
  • Union Pacific: nominated in 1999
  • The Amulet: nominated in 2001
  • Capitol: Selection List 2001
  • San Marco: Selection List 2001
  • Train to train: 2004
  • Oasis: Recommendation List 2004
  • Diamond: Recommendation List 2005
  • Gravy Train & Co: 5th place 1996
  • Elfland: 3rd place 1998
  • Union Pacific: 3rd place 1999
  • Capitol: 5th place 2001
  • San Marco: 7th place 2001
  • The Amulet: 10th place 2001
  • New England: 8th place in 2003
  • Train to train: 6th place 2004
  • Union Pacific 1999
  • Lumberjack: Games Hit for Families 2002
  • Europe Tour: Games Hit for families 2003
  • Diamond: Games Hit for Many 2005
  • Train to train: 2nd place Family Games 2004
  • Train to train 2005
  • Union Pacific: Multiplayer Nominees 2000
  • San Marco: Grand Prize Multiplayer 2002
  • Capitol: Multiplayer Finalist 2002
  • Train to train: Multiplayer Finalist 2004
  • Train to train Europe: Grand Prize Multiplayer 2005
  • Train to train: 2004
  • Train to train: named in 2004
  • U.F.O.s: 8th place in 1992
  • Freight Train: 8th place in 1994
  • Gravy Train & Co: 2nd place in 1996
  • King of the Elves: 8th place in 2000
  • Europe Tour: 3rd place 2003
  • Grand Canal: 4th place 2003
  • Diamond: 4th place 2005
  • Gloria Picktoria: 9th place 2007

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