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Vlaada Chvátil


Vlaada Chvátil is a Czech game designer whose games are often on the border between thematic games and euros.
He is known for his unique style of rulebook writing that is both praised and criticised by different people. The rulebooks are often divided into several "learning scenarios", each adding some more rules until reaching the full game. The rulebooks also often use humour as a method of explanation.

Notable games include:

2002 Prophecy
2006 Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
2007 Galaxy Trucker
2008 Space Alert
2009 Dungeon Lords
2011 Dungeon Petz, Mage Knight Board Game, Pictomania
2013 Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends
2015 Codenames,Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization




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Codenames Duet  [2017]

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents. (Why you don't already know who ...

Codenames: Deep Undercover  [2016]

Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.

In Codenames: Deep Undercover, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters gi...

Codenames: Pictures  [2016]

What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents!

Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for c...

Codenames  [2015]

Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES.

In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues...

Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization  [2015]

Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization adalah edisi baru dari Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, dengan banyak perubahan kecil pada kartu permainan dan perubahan besar pada bagaimana pasukan militer bekerja.

Through the Ages adalah...

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends  [2013]

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends is a game played by masters of magic. Two to four summoners encounter each other in the Tash-Kalar arena, either in teams or each on his own, and prove their skill and strategy in a short but intense battle. By clever dep...

Pictomania  [2011]

Pictomania is a drawing game in which everyone is both drawing and guessing at the same time, giving a chance for those who excel only at one or the other skill to crush the dreams of other players.

Pictomania lasts five rounds, and at the s...

Dungeon Petz  [2011]

Become the leader of an imp family that has just started a new business – breeding and selling petz. Sound simple and safe? Well, we forgot to mention that those petz are for Dungeon Lords. This means magical, playful, sometimes angry monsters that c...

Mage Knight Board Game  [2011]

The Mage Knight board game puts you in control of one of four powerful Mage Knights as you explore (and conquer) a corner of the Mage Knight universe under the control of the Atlantean Empire. Build your army, fill your deck with powerful spells and ...

Dungeon Lords  [2009]

In Dungeon Lords, you are an evil dungeonlord who is trying to build the best dungeon out there. You hire monsters, build rooms, buy traps and defeat the do-gooders who wish to bring you down.

From the publisher's webpage:

Have you ...

Bunny Bunny Moose Moose  [2009]

Box text: Once again, the hunter prowls the forest. All the animals flee in terror! Well, not really. Only a dumb animal would call attention to itself. In our forest, the animals are smart, otherwise their heads would be decorating the hunter’s mant...

Space Alert  [2008]

Space Alert is a cooperative team survival game. Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of the galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only ...

Galaxy Trucker  [2007]

In a galaxy far, far away... they need sewer systems, too. Corporation Incorporated builds them. Everyone knows their drivers -- the brave men and women who fear no danger and would, if the pay was good enough, even fly through Hell.
Now you can...

Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization  [2006]

Through the Ages is a civilization building game. Each player attempts to build the best civilization through careful resource management, discovering new technologies, electing the right leaders, building wonders and maintaining a strong military. W...

Prophecy  [2002]

Prophecy (originally released as Proroctví) is a Talisman-style game by Czech designer Vladimír Chvátil. The players represent fantasy characters on a path through a land full of adventure with the goal of grabbing ancient artifacts from the claws of...