Brett J. Gilbert

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