Let's be serious: it's a game.

Do you mean rules have to be explained _before_ playing?

-- Retired BGA admin since the 1st of March 2023: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29431 --
-- Just a regular player now :) --

- Place the board in the center of the table. -
Is the - Once upon a time - for boardgames.

Let me teach you this delightfully silly game

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose !

i love gaming and cooking- both things you can do with friends.

Rashly grab a demo for tabletop play (9)

Champion of bad dice rolls

Fullstack developer, devops, (board)geek and biker 🏍.

Here comes a new challenger!

«╬♣

I'm a chess player and enjoy to be challenged by great boardgames.

Sorry but my internet connection is going on and off, so I prefer turn based tables and/or turn based tournaments.

I speak Polish and English. My favorite game: Terraforming mars.

Power Resides Where Men Believe It Resides.

Hey, sit down and let's play a game!

Trying board games on for size in Edmundston NB 🇨🇦. J'essaie des jeux de société pour voir si ils me font à Edmundston NB 🇨🇦

A floating octopus adorabilis

Now back to my virtual tabletop game sessions. To contact me send a mail.

I enjoy playing boardgames and also develop them for BGA in my spare time

Developer of Santorini, Kingdom Builder, Concept, Welcome To, YinYang, Nidavellir and more to come...

Co-dev of Alhambra, Papayoo, Marrakech, The Crew, Agricola, Bang, Equinox.

Think outside the shrinkwrap.

My niche as an abstract game designer is an architecture first approach. A set of rules has a beauty all its own, independent of the gameplay. Go, Reversi, Hex, and Y inspired me initially, without ever having played any of them. Like those games, my games are based on pure, simple, essential mechanisms - more discovery than invention. They aren't arbitrary or hodgepodge. I also try to make my games as unique as possible - different from what I've already done, and different from what's out there. I don't do "with a twist" games.

Other designers, some very successful, do it differently. They start with a concept, playtest it extensively, tweak it, playtest it again, tweak it again... until they arrive at gameplay which meets their high standards. I couldn't do that even if I wanted to. I'm a decidedly below average player of games, and I'm not one to judge quality of play. I do playtest my games to make sure they don't have any robustness issues, but I can never really be sure until talented players get ahold of them and try to wring them out. Generally, the simpler a game is, the more vulnerable it is to problems. There was speculation that Dodo would quickly fall, but it's still standing strong.

Luckily, a small percentage of my games turned out to be pretty good in spite of my modus operandi.

My journey at BGA. I am not a programmer. I saw that there were tutorials and I thought, How hard can it be? Little did I know. I designed Gopher as a super simple game to make my first programming project easy. It wasn't. My strategy was to copy the Reversi program and swap out the graphics and game logic. My program was a total kludge and it took a lot of work by Sunil Patel to make it functional. He was a fan of my game, Flume, which he had programmed for his own fledgling game site, and he took me under his wing. He disappeared after Gopher, but then Tisaac stepped in and helped me quite a lot on various game programs. He wasn't writing my programs for me but he always told me just what I need to know to get back on track. Tisaac really helped me get a toehold at BGA. UFM deserves mention for his help with the pie rule and player panel which I've used in many programs since. Eventually I would get through a few programs without needing any help. But then I got stuck on Cephalopod and VictoriaLa came to the rescue.

The developers are overall a stellar bunch of guys (and girls). To those who helped, reluctantly or otherwise, I say Thank you. It was noble of you to take time away from your own projects to help a doddering old amateur develop a game program that would be lucky to get .01% of the playership.

The admins here are awesome. Most have personally thanked me for my contributions. Pleasant admins are the exception to the rule. At most game sites the admins are dimwits who take pleasure in lording over the designers.

To me, designers are the apex predators. Selectors (developers) play an important role but are decidedly lower in the food chain. In my case, I wear a designer hat with a little developer feather in the band. My specialty, the naturally finite (no superko etc.), decisive abstract, is the highest form of a game.

Other designers I admire include Michael Amundsen and Alek Erickson. I view Michael as the current torch bearer in this thin sliver of the design universe we've found ourselves in. Alek has collaborated with Michael on many designs. I like Christian Freeling. He's been around for a long time designing Chess and Checkers variants.

There aren't many shrink-wrapped games I like. Azul for example, popular though it is, totally misses me.

I've lived in Mongolia since March 2019. I lived in California for 20 years before moving here.

Article about me:
https://www.abstractgames.org/marksteere.html

Article by me:
https://www.abstractgames.org/finitude.html

Mark Steere Games chat: https://discord.gg/ukXZfJrPRE

Developer of Gaia Project, PARKS, Space Station Phoenix, and other BGA adaptations. Send me a message if you're looking to adapt your game!

BGAddict

I develop games on BGA!

If you're a publisher looking for a slick implementation, send me a message.

Let's roll :)

Adapted for BGA: Quoridor, Gear&Piston, Tournay, Time Masters, Sobek, Quantum, The Palaces of Carrara, Lords of Xidit and Metromania ^^

Stets auf der Suche nach frischem Löwenzahn...

I can move move move any mooountaaaain

BGA developer of Lucky Numbers, Imhotep, Schrödinger's Cats and the Boomerang series (Australia, Europe, USA)

Developer of:

INCAN GOLD
TAKARA ISLAND
VEGGIE GARDEN
DRAGON KEEPER
TALUVA
SANTORINI
...and board game geek

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BGA developer & Abe wannabe:
Hello...Hello..............Follow me.....

Great games, you might have missed:
Innovation.
Number Drop.
NXS.
The Battle for Hill 218.

Hi! I am a developer of Martian Dice and Just One, co-developer of BANG! and a very passionate boardgamer :)
I am a Russian living in the UK. Would love to play some boardgames IRL!

Game designer (Project L, Snekagon), developer, mid-euro player.

My BGA projects:

Released: Draftosaurus, Lost ruins of Arnak

Beta: Squadro, Bug

Alpha: Snekagon,

Upcoming projects: Project L

Gamer, Software Developer (on BGA and elsewhere) and other things too. Developed BGA adaptations for Gold West, The Isle of Cats, Bärenpark and Earth.

Joueur, Programmeur (sur BGA et ailleurs) et d'autres choses aussi. J'ai développé l'adaptation BGA de Gold West, The Isle of Cats (L'île des chats), Bärenpark et Earth.

I am a collector with too many games on my Shelf of Shame.

I implement games for BGA as a hobby. I am currently working on Martin Wallace's Perikles (in alpha now), and Three Kingdoms Redux.

千里之行，始于足下。

Un joueur :) .

Non non l'appelez pas ça s’ joue à 3 !
Bon c'est pas grave on va s’ démerder…

BGA Developer of Dungeon Roll, 13 Clues and Wizard

Alaskan board game enthusiast.

Developer of Barbu, Luxor, Harbour

Co-dev of Burgle Bros.

Auteur de jeux en herbe, Hydroracers ici. Et
developpeur BGA si l'occasion se présente. Contactez-moi.

Working my way to being an Alpha reviewer (up to 700+ games).

Developer:
In the meantime, I also started making BGA games.
My first implementation is the 2 player variant for The Crew, Jarvis.
I really appreciate the help from the BGA Dev Community, thanks to Tisaac, Thoun, VictoriaLa, Vincentt, and Archduke.

I developed Tic-Tac Match, currently in Beta. a filler card game inspired by tic tac toe.

Board game designer of games like Assyria, Byzanz, Pioneers and many others. I am also a software engineering.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - Shaw

I play bass guitar and Euro board games. I go to Emmanuel Church and I helped design your phone's brain.

I have taken over the maintenance of Race for the Galaxy. While I didn't wrote the original implementation (it was sourisdudesert), I fixed tons of bugs in the expansions and added many improvements to the interface.
There's still a lot to do.

Favourite Games:

- Connect Four
- Kalah
- Werewolf
- Hanabi
- Carcassonne

Innovation developer

I love innovation and am part of the volunteer dev team

highest innovation elo? 460 (78th) ->220726
highest vectorace elo? 391 (14th) ->221028
highest wingspan elo? 291 () ->221028
highest wingspan score 100, bonus points 29
ranks not tied to elo/date, just when I notice

I co-implemented 'Abandon All Artichokes' on BGA.

Developer of Gizmos
Avid gamer

Author and Programmer of Flaming Pyramids

Developer of Letter Tycoon

Développeur informatique, a découvert les jeux de société depuis peu.

Hi all 👋 I'm a volunteer developer for BGA and enjoy adapting board games onto the BGA platform for all players to have fun on.

Developed:
- Chromino

I'm current working on:
- KAWA (Alpha)

Software Developer and lover of all types of games from Sydney, Australia

https://xnedkx.github.io/games.htm

I've developed the BGA adaptation for Dinosaur Tea Party

Oh-Seven developer

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Hellllllloooooooo!

The board can't be flipped when it's online

Insatiable euro-gamer and occasional BGA developer

http://www.giocareinscatola.it

Geek, nerd, freak, terco y vago. Web & Desktop Developer. Adicto a Internet. Vivo la vida de a 140 caracteres a la vez.

也許這輩子都無法釋懷了吧 =<

Board game designer from Decking Awesome Games (https://www.dag.irish/)

Not much to look at but occasionally good for a laugh.

Part-time game designer, part-time translator, part-time reviewer, part-time chikuwa and tiramisu lover, and part-time world peace thinker.

I love board games since childhood. And since school, we have a weekly board game evening going, since about 10 years even with web based result protocol. When Covid changed the world, it also changed our boardgaming and we discovered BGA, which is since then our weekly gaming place. Besides that, also my family likes to play board games, in real and on BGA, so I'm quite happy about it! And being a software engineer, it gave me the chance to publish a game myself: https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=baolakiswahili

I'm the developer of the Bids card game. You can find my game here on BGA. If you have questions about the game, feel free to ask

Board game designer and video game developer. My game development related blog is at http://chesstris.com/

Avid follower of Christ, husband, father and gamer. I developed Remember When here on BoardGameArena.

Discover Gangsta!, the first game created by Schmeta Games, a brand new game publishing company from Belgium: https://www.schmetagames.be/en/gangsta.php

Developer and creator of Trusis, a simple murder party game now available on BGA!

Vater, Ehemann, Programmierer und Brettspieler aus Leidenschaft

https://youtu.be/-P08rTazu1U

I love traditional card games - especially Tarot games. Feel free to hit me up for one!

I absolutely love playing games on BGA! It's great to be able to play any game any time!

I have an inner desire to try every single game on BGA :-) but I will need to work a lot harder to make that happen :-)

I am currently playing in the Allround League, and I am a team captain for United We Stand Season 5 - team Crazy Eight.