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Martin Wallace


Martin Wallace is a game designer from Manchester, England (currently living in New Zealand), who is the founder of Warfrog/Treefrog Games.

Abridged List of Notable Games


1998 Cloudbusters
1999 Mordred
2000 Empires of the Ancient World
2000 Way Out West
2001 Liberté
2001 Volldampf
2002 Age of Steam
2003 Princes of the Renaissance
2003 Secrets of the Tombs
2004 Struggle of Empires
2004 La Strada
2005 Byzantium
2006 Perikles
2007 Brass: Lancashire
2008 Tinners' Trail
2008 After the Flood
2008 Steel Driver
2008 Toledo
2009 God's Playground
2009 Automobile
2009 Rise of Empires
2009 Last Train to Wensleydale
2009 Steam
2009 Waterloo
2010 Age of Industry
2010 Gettysburg
2010 Moongha Invaders: Mad Scientists and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth!
2010 London
2010 First Train to Nuremberg
2011 A Few Acres of Snow
2011 Discworld: Ankh-Morpork
2011 Test of Fire: Bull Run 1861
2012 Aeroplanes: Aviation Ascendant
2012 Clash of Wills: Shiloh 1862
2012 P.I.
2013 A Study in Emerald
2013 Field of Glory: The Card Game
2013 The Witches: A Discworld Game
2014 In Flanders Field
2014 Mythotopia
2014 Onward to Venus
2015 Ships
2015 A Study in Emerald (second edition)
2016 Via Nebula
2016 Hit Z Road
2016 The Arrival
2017 A Handful of Stars


Interviews
See weblinks module, and:

Interviews by an Optimist # 68 - Martin Wallace (designer of Age of Steam)
Interview for the "SIC" blog




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Sebagai designer di boardgame

Nanty Narking  [2019]

Nanty Narking is a Victorian board game of wit and podsnappery that reimplements the well-known Discworld: Anhk Morpork board game. Immersed deeply in the world of Dickens' and Doyle's literature (which inspired Sir Terry Pratchett in his Ankh-Morpor...

Wildlands  [2018]

The great evil has fallen, and has taken the capital with it. Where once there was a kingdom, there is now only the Wildlands. In a lawless fantasy world, you must band together for survival, treasure, or maybe even glory. Players control rival facti...

Railways of Nippon  [2018]

Description from the publisher:

Railways of Nippon is a self-contained 2-4 player version of (but not a re-implementation because it also integrates with) Railways of the World with a new map of Japan designed by the Japanese game designer H...

London (second edition)  [2017]

A brand new edition of a popular classic, London will appeal to the strategic thinker among board game fans. Tasked with rebuilding London in the decades following the great fire, players juggle building requirements, bank loans, and poverty as they ...

A Handful of Stars  [2017]

A Handful of Stars is the final title published by Treefrog Games and the third entry into the unofficial "A Few Acres of Snow Trilogy." The first game was the two-player A Few Acres of Snow, whose main mechanisms were then reimplemented in...

Via Nebula  [2016]

Crafters, builders and carriers — your help is needed to dispel the mists of Nebula! The people of the valley will reward you handsomely if you harvest and exploit our many resources, open paths through the mists, and help our settlers build new stru...

Ships  [2015]

Ships deals with the history of shipping, from the time of the Phoenicians to the modern era. The game is divided into three ages, marked with different ship types. The first age is that of the galley, followed by the age of the galleon, then finally...

The Witches: A Discworld Game  [2013]

The Witches: Game Discworld adalah game kedua dari tiga game oleh Martin Wallace yang dibuat di Discworld Terry Pratchett (Lihat game pertamanya di sini: Discworld: Ankh-Morpork

Aeroplanes: Aviation Ascendant  [2012]

Game description from the publisher:

Aeroplanes: Aviation Ascendant explores the dawn of commercial aviation, an exciting era between 1919 and 1939. Experience the difficulties and triumphs of commercial airlines in Europe, pioneering airpor...

A Few Acres of Snow  [2011]

A Few Acres of Snow is a two-player, deck-building game about the French and British conflict in North America.

The card-play contains a focus on a deck-building mechanic similar to Dominion, each card will have multiple uses like card-drive...

Discworld: Ankh-Morpork  [2011]

Martin Wallace and Treefrog Games present Ankh-Morpork, set in the largest city-state in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Lord Vetinari has disappeared and different factions are trying to take control of the city. Each player has a secret personality w...

London  [2010]

London lies devastated after the Great Fire of 1666. This is your opportunity to build a new city on the ashes of the old. It is up to you how you employ the talents of the people of London to this end. Will you favor the business classes, who will e...

Automobile  [2009]

Automobile is a 3-5 player game that bears a modern setting when compared to most of Wallace’s releases. Players are competing in the U.S. auto industry in the early 20th century, purchasing factories that turn out low-, medium- and high-valued vehic...

Steam  [2009]

In Steam you build railroads and deliver goods along an ever changing network of tracks and stations. You build the tracks, upgrade towns, improve your train, and grab the right goods to make the longest, most profitable deliveries. Score your delive...

Brass: Lancashire  [2007]

Brass: Lancashire — first published as Brass — is an economic strategy game that tells the story of competing cotton entrepreneurs in Lancashire during the industrial revolution. You must develop, build, and establish your industries and network so t...

Railways of the World  [2005]

Railways of the World (2009) is the new edition of the base game for Eagle Games' popular Railways of the World series, first published as Railroad Tycoon in 2005. It reimplements the original game with several improvements.

Revisit the ear...

Struggle of Empires  [2004]

Struggle of Empires recreates the various wars fought between the European powers as they attempted to become the dominant force in Europe and the rest of the world during the eighteenth century. Build armies and fleets, make alliances, establish co...

Age of Steam  [2002]

Steam-belching iron horses roar across the wild plains! Age of Steam relives the era when pioneering U.S. railroads built the tracks that transformed America's economy. The cut-throat action is centered on the industrial powerhouses of the growing na...