Mac Gerdts

Walther M. Gerdts (* 1962 in Hamburg), called Mac Gerdts, is a German game designer.

Life

Studied economics began at school in the 1970s and 1980s with the development of board games, most extensive strategy games with historical themes. His first publication, antiquity, came in 2005 on the market. The thematic orientation made ​​it for popularity especially in the U.S. market and in all games for requirements imposed by international publishers. Gerdts ' themed games here have for this genre, unusually, on any random elements in the game.

Gerdts lives with his wife and their son in Hamburg- Harburg, where he worked in the administration.

Action Rondell

Connected to Gerdts ' name is the development of the so-called action rondel, a cyclic arrangement of the possible in-game actions, on the one takes with its own character and thus determines his actions. Normally, the next actions of the sequence are accessible free of charge, you can skip this but also against charges of play money or victory points. This element leads to a very personalized ausgestaltbaren strategies (due to lack certain actions to other work through at a faster pace can ), and secondly to the fact that the usual in thematic- historical games sector very detailed trains are broken down into smaller parts, which by its own action, the waiting time until a player is back on the series, decreases.

Ludographie

  • Antiquity (2005, eggertspiele / PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games and Oya )
  • Imperial (2006, eggertspiele / PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games )
  • Jogo do Ano (Portugal ) 2006
  • 7th German Games Award 2007
  • Recommendation List Game of the Year 2007
  • Finalist International Gamers Award 2007
  • Hall of Game Wiener Spiele Akademie
  • Hamburgum (2007, eggertspiele / PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games and PD games)
  • Finalist International Gamers Award 2008
  • 6th German Games Award 2008
  • The Princes of Machu Picchu (2008, PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games )
  • Imperial 2030 (2009, PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games )
  • Navegador (2010, PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games )
  • Ancient Duellum (2012, PD -Verlag)
  • Concordia (2013, PD -Verlag, internationally displaced by Rio Grande Games, 999 games)
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