Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia Walter ( born November 16, 1957 in Illertissen ) is a German game designer. Of his over 400 published games so far more than ten million copies were sold.

Many of his plays have won many awards, he has won four times the German game prize and three times the top prize at the Austrian game of games. In 2008 he received both the award Game of the Year as well as child's play of the year.

Life

He studied mathematics at the University of Ulm, where he made his diploma, received a Master of Science at Syracuse University in the U.S. and eventually earned a doctorate for his work on "Characterization of multi-dimensional Perron integrals " turn in Ulm, for which in 1987 he a promotional price received.

Knizia was project manager and team leader for software development, finally, deputy department director of information technology in international business from a major German bank and department director of corporate planning a major German bank. In addition, he was General Manager and the board of a British mortgage lending company. This was followed by teaching assignments for project management and management techniques at several universities and institutes.

Game Designer

With about eight years Knizia developed his first own games. Serious, he worked on games but only from the mid / late 1980s. One of the first developed by Reiner Knizia games were games for his post founded in 1985 Zine Postspillion. Seven different post games started between 1985 and 1987. Postspillion The published until 2005 and his game Bretton Woods, which was launched in 1987 and ran until April 2007.

In 1990 he published then Digging in Hexagames and gold rush with Hans in Luck, which reached the 5th place in the German game prize. In the same year, his book New tactic games with dice and cards at Hugendubel.

Since 1997 he has been full-time game designer, but had already published about 80 games so far. Between 1999 and 2001 Knizia was also chairman of the Game Designer Association SAZ. 2004, the total number of its games released was estimated at more than 200. Today his Ludographie includes more than 400 different games.

Knizias games were a multitude of awards. 1993, 1998, 2000 and 2003 he was awarded for Modern Art, Euphrates & Tigris, Taj Mahal and Amun -Re in each case the German game prize, 2003, 2004 and 2006, he received King Arthur, Ingenious and Valley of the adventure the main prize at the Austrian game of the Year. In 2008 he received the award for Keltis game of the year and for Who was it? the Children's Award of the year. In the Internet Top 100 Games List 16 are Knizia games, including six games in the top 20 (as of 2004).

Criticism

The games by Reiner Knizia is said occasionally to dry and be mathematically perfect. There are yea, and counter-examples, such as the published end of 2003, King Arthur, an electronic board game, or published in 2005 Pickomino, a simple dice game that are entertaining and easy to understand. The assertion that one could divide Knizias games into two categories, the more complex and more strategic " Knizia games" and the loose and happiness more pronounced " Reiner games," according Knizia is not true. He wants to " not in these two boxes, namely, Knizia games ' and, Reiner games ' stuck ' because it was one of his claims to" make very diverse things, " for example, in the children's, Knobel, and even electronics.

• Reiner Knizia: New tactics games with dice and cards. Hugendubel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88034-458-2.
• Reiner Knizia: New Games in ancient Rome. Hugendubel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88034-735-2.
• Reiner Knizia: Card in the Wild West. Hugendubel, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88034-808-1.
• Reiner Knizia: The Big Book of dice games. Hugendubel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7205-2183-4.
• Reiner Knizia: Card Chess. Berlin Playing Cards, 2000

Awards

• Game of the Year 1992: Quo vadis: Selection List
• 1993: Tutankhamun: Selection List
• 1993: Modern Art: Selection List
• 1995: Medici: Selection List
• 1998: Through the Desert: Selection List
• 1998: Money: Selection List
• 1998: Euphrates & Tigris: Selection List
• 2000: Taj Mahal: Selection List
• 2001: The Lord of the Rings: Special Price "Literature in the game"
• 2001: Royal Turf: Selection List
• 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship - The Card Game: Selection List
• 2003: Amun -Re: Selection List
• 2004: Ingenious: nominated
• 2004: Carcassonne - The Castle: Recommendation List
• 2006: Blue Moon City: nominated
• 2008: Keltis: Grand Prize
• 2008: Pingu Party: Recommendation List

• 2004: Treasure of the Dragon: nominated
• 2005: Mago Magino: nominated
• 2005: Turtle Race: nominated
• 2005: Stain Monsters: Recommendation List
• 2007: The small talk badger: Recommendation List
• 2008: Who was it? Main prize
• 2008: All Tomato: Recommendation List

• 2003: King Arthur: Grand Prize
• 2003: Amun- Re: Games Hit for experts
• 2004: Ingenious: Grand Prize
• 2005: Mago Magino: Games Hit for Children
• 2006: Valley of Adventure: Grand Prize
• 2007: Risk Express: games hit for families

• 2003: Amun -Re: 2nd place Freak games
• 2004: Ingenious: 1st place strategy games
• 2005: The Tower of Babel: 1st place strategy games
• 2006: Pirates: 2nd Place Family Games
• 2007: Ingenious puzzle fun: 1st Place Family Games

• 2004: Amun- Re: nominated
• 2005: Veel Soeps: nominated
• 2006: Through the Desert: nominated
• Nominated: 2006: Pirates!
• 2007: Taj Mahal: nominated

• 2002: Kingdoms

• 2000: Ra: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2000: Stephenson 's Rocket: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2000: Scots Totten: nominated in the category of two-player
• 2001: The Lord of the Rings: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2001: The merchants of Amsterdam: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2001: Taj Mahal: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2001: Dream Factory: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2004: Ingenious: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2004: Carcassonne: The Castle: nominated in the category of two-player
• 2006: Blue Moon City: nominated in the category Multiplayer
• 2007: Medici vs. Strozzi: nominated in the category of two-player

• 2010: Ingenious