Brett J. Gilbert
Brett J. Gilbert is a British board game designer and game design consultant, based in Ely, Cambridgeshire. “A game designer is someone for whom game design is more difficult than it is for other people.” Online Portfolio – Complete list of published games: brettjgilbert.co.uk. UPCOMING & RECENT RELEASES …
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MAJOR AWARDS & NOMINATIONS 2013 Spiel des Jahres: Recommended — Divinare 2013 Fairplay À la carte: Winner — Divinare 2015 Kennerspiel des Jahres: Nominee — Elysium 2018 Major Fun Award — Professor Evil and The Citadel of Time 2020 DuAli (Best 2-Player Game): Winner — Mandala 2021 MinD-Spielepreis (Best 2-Player Game): Winner — Mandala 2022 Deutscher Spielzeug Preis (For The Whole Family): Winner — Labyrinth: Team Edition 2024 Kennerspiel des Jahres: Nominee — The Guild of Merchant Explorers DESIGNER DIARIES Divinare, or It’s Better to Be Lucky than Smart — published 06/12 Elysium, or The Path of Heroes — published 05/15 Dice Heist, or Art and Other Accidents — published 05/16 The Great City of Rome, or How Long Did You Say Rome Was Gonna Take Again? — published 11/18 Under The Leaves, or Less is More, and More is Better — published 08/25 INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES Interview: My design process — published 07/17 Article: Building a Bigger Boat — editorial for 2018 edition of ‘Mojo Nation 100’, published 02/18 Interview: Origins of Rubik’s Match — published 04/19 Interview: Review of Essen 2019 — published 11/19 Interview: Lockdown, JigStars and looking ahead to 2021 — published 09/20 Article: Should tabletop designers create mass market games? — published 08/21 Interview: Labyrinth: Team Edition — A new spin on a classic — published 05/23 PODCASTS Five Games for Doomsday — published 06/22 Amusing Meeples: Gluttony for Dummies — published 07/23 Player Lair: Brett J. Gilbert and Trevor Benjamin — published 12/23 Intertextual Experience: Collabrestriction — published 05/24 Behind the Cardboard: Abandonment and Rejection — published 12/25 BEYOND BOARDGAMEGEEK Serpentiles: Single-player logic puzzle, published by ThinkFun, 2008 Quarta: 2-player iOS board game, with AI opponent, published by Opal Limited, 2015 Dot to Dot: Single-player logic puzzle, published by moses, 2020
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Designed and illustrated 5 games
| Good Little Martian | 2017 | 0 | |
| The Other Hat Trick | 2013 | 0 | |
| Good Little Trains | 2017 | 0 | |
| Good Little Ninjas | 2017 | 0 | |
| Jest | 2013 | 0 |
Designed 68 games
| Fantastic Park | 2017 | 0 | |
| Labyrinth: Team Edition | 2022 | 0 | |
| Piece of Pie | 2020 | 0 | |
| Happy Holiday | 2026 | 0 | |
| Nile Artifacts | 2021 | 0 | |
| Fantastique | 2026 | 0 | |
| Brethren of the Coast | 2016 | 0 | |
| Karnickel | 2013 | 0 | |
| First Giants: Newspaper Tokens Mini-Expansion | 2026 | 0 | |
| Seagrass | 2026 | 0 | |
| In voller Blüte | 2026 | 0 | |
| The Guild of Merchant Explorers: Party Pack | 2025 | 0 | |
| Labyrinth Go! | 2025 | 0 | |
| Die drei ??? Labyrinth: Team Edition | 2024 | 0 | |
| Junk Forts | 2022 | 0 | |
| NOM: Simon's Cat Card Game | 2021 | 0 | |
| JigStars | 2021 | 0 | |
| Games from the Deep, Dark Wood | 2019 | 0 | |
| Chocolate Factory: Master Chocolatier Mini-Expansion | 2019 | 0 | |
| Rubik's Match | 2019 | 0 | |
| Fussball Duell | 2018 | 0 | |
| Pocket Pharma: R&D Mini Expansions | 2018 | 0 | |
| Beowulf Legends: Terror at Heorot | 2017 | 0 | |
| Scotland: The Board Game | 2017 | 0 | |
| Good Little Gardens | 2017 | 0 |
Art for 4 games
| Muses | 2013 | 0 | |
| Bad Grandmas | 2011 | 0 | |
| Combo | 2013 | 0 |