Phil Eklund

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Game designer, aerospace engineer, and rocket scientist Phil Eklund will be at Play 2025.

Phil Eklund has worked in the aerospace industry on space programmes since 1983, before moving to Germany in 2010 to focus full-time on board game design. His company, Sierra Madre Games, has published over 40 games, including High Frontier, Greenland, Bios: Genesis, Bios: Origins, Pax Porfiriana, Pax Renaissance and Pax Hispanica. His current project is Arrival, a sequel to High Frontier in which an interstellar rocket reaches an alien planet. Phil Eklund is currently working for Ion Games Design in Stockholm.

Philosophy of Boardgame Design

Phil Eklund Phil Eklund's famous lecture for the Sodertorn University in Stockholm

Hall 20 - AMM S4 04 Friday
hours 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Tipology: Talk
Target: Adults
immagine evento: Philosophy of Boardgame Design

Game Design Evolution: how game design has changed in the new millenium

With Antoine Bauza, Phil Eklund, and Simone Luciani A roundtable discussion exploring how game design has evolved over the past 25 years – ...

Hall 15 - AMM S30 05 Saturday
hours 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tipology: Talk
Target: Adults
immagine evento: Game Design Evolution: how game design has changed in the new millenium

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