Exploring the design hallmarks of Dr. Reiner Knizia, one of the most prolific and respected game designers. With over 700 published designs, we can learn much from what makes his games special.
My answer to the poll kinda fits a bit "in-between" or adjacent to the answers – while i was familiar with Reiner Knizia, and had heard the name and knew some of his games, to my knowledge i have not actually played one of them! ... or so i thought – because a quick search uncovered that he's got "Carcassonne: The Castle" to his name, and i grew up playing a *lot* of Carcassonne! we got a fair amount of add-ons and variants, including The Castle, though we didn't play it a lot, preferring the original (with some add-ons though mostly for the extra tiles to have longer games, than using the actual mechanics) ^^ and i suppose, with that many games, i wouldn't be too surprised if i might have played another of his games, though to be honest, i don't have the widest experience.
cool to learn that he's a fellow mathematician, too :) i can see the influence – "simple rules with deep decisions" (or maybe switch "deep decisions" for "emergent complexity/depth") is honestly a great way to sum up math itself x3
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, it's hard to play board games without eventually playing a Reiner Knizia game! And his math background certainly shines through in many of his designs.
My answer to the poll kinda fits a bit "in-between" or adjacent to the answers – while i was familiar with Reiner Knizia, and had heard the name and knew some of his games, to my knowledge i have not actually played one of them! ... or so i thought – because a quick search uncovered that he's got "Carcassonne: The Castle" to his name, and i grew up playing a *lot* of Carcassonne! we got a fair amount of add-ons and variants, including The Castle, though we didn't play it a lot, preferring the original (with some add-ons though mostly for the extra tiles to have longer games, than using the actual mechanics) ^^ and i suppose, with that many games, i wouldn't be too surprised if i might have played another of his games, though to be honest, i don't have the widest experience.
cool to learn that he's a fellow mathematician, too :) i can see the influence – "simple rules with deep decisions" (or maybe switch "deep decisions" for "emergent complexity/depth") is honestly a great way to sum up math itself x3
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, it's hard to play board games without eventually playing a Reiner Knizia game! And his math background certainly shines through in many of his designs.