João Pedro Neto
João Pedro Neto (born 1970 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a game designer from Lisbon, Portugal, who is known as an inventor of chess variants and abstract games, like Gonnect, Iqishiqi, Nex, and Magnetic Chess. Creator of the World of Abstract Games website and the Trabsact Sagme blog about board games. One of the creators of the Portuguese Tournament of Mathematical Games directed at primary and secondary schools.…
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Co-author of Mathematical Games, Abstract Games, published at Dover Publications, and three other books about games (in Portuguese). Published articles in the Proceedings of Board Game Studies Colloquia, in the Abstract Games Magazine, and in the Journal of Game & Puzzle Design. Website Contributions The World of Abstract Games Trabsact Sagme Diaries My Games at Chessvariants.com BGG Contributions Contributor at the Abstract Games Forum Go Variants blog The Cousins of Go Designing Abstract Games Top20 games to play on a Goban Top20 games to play on Hex/Y boards Combinatorial Card Games Abstract Games geeklists Abstract Games with unpublished/incomplete rules Abstract Games Wiki Interviews Interview with Chessvariants.com Geek of the Week Favorite Designed Games 1996 - Magnetic Chess 1997 - Progressive Orthodox Chess 1998 - Balanced Swap Chess 2000 - Gonnect 2001 - Unstack, Court 2002 - Dispatch 2003 - Iqishiqi, Stiletto, Abstract Chess 2004 - Nex, Lisbon, Send It 2005 - Xana 2007 - Sesqui 2025 - Spora 2026 - Plurality, Sentinel BGG Hyper-parameterized mega-search of Abstract Games Ancient (before 0) Games between 1 and 1849 Games between 1850 and 1949 Games between 1950 and 1999 Games between 2000 and 2024 Games from 2025 onwards Games with no date (BGG assumes date zero)
Biography and credits from BoardGameGeek.
Designed 29 games
Gonnect
| Twin Flames | 2026 | 0 | |
| Sentinel | 2026 | 0 | |
| Plurality | 2026 | 0 | |
| Spora | 2025 | 0 | |
| Detach | 2025 | 0 | |
| Mineway | 2025 | 0 | |
| Pippinzip | 2020 | 0 | |
| Archipelago | 2016 | 0 | |
| Sesqui | 2007 | 0 | |
| Xana | 2005 | 0 | |
| Diamonds & Pivots | 2005 | 0 | |
| Send It | 2004 | 0 | |
| Lisbon | 2004 | 0 | |
| Nex | 2004 | 0 | |
| Iqishiqi | 2003 | 0 | |
| Stiletto | 2003 | 0 | |
| Abstract Chess | 2003 | 0 | |
| Un | 2003 | 0 | |
| Galice | 2002 | 0 | |
| Dispatch | 2002 | 0 | |
| Triskelion | 2002 | 0 | |
| Khan | 2002 | 0 | |
| Life, the Universe, and Everything | 2001 | 0 | |
| Patterns | 2001 | 0 | |
| UnStack | 2001 | 0 | |
| Twirls of Action | 2001 | 0 | |
| Court | 2001 | 0 | |
| Desdemona | 2000 | 0 |