Alan R. Moon

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Alan R. Moon
Alan R. Moon playing his game, Ticket to Ride at Origins, 5 July 2007
Born (1951-11-18) November 18, 1951 (age 74)
Southampton, England
OccupationBoard Game Designer
Known forTicket to Ride
Websitealanrmoon.com
Moon's Santa Fe Rails in play.

Alan R. Moon (born 18 November 1951) is a British game designer best known for creating the turn-based strategy game Ticket to Ride. He is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games. Many of his games can be seen as board game variations on the travelling salesman problem.

Career

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Moon has worked as a game designer for Avalon Hill, Parker Brothers, and Ravensburger F.X. Schmid USA.[1] His first published game was Black Spy (Avalon Hill, 1981), inspired by the classic card game, Hearts.[1] But his first game that got him attention was Airlines, published by the German company Abacus in 1990.[1] He started his own publishing company, White Wind in 1990 and ran it until 1997.[1] He now publishes his games through other companies, such as Ravensburger and Days of Wonder.

Since 2000, Moon has been a full-time freelance game designer, with dozens of games to his credit.[1] Moon has won the Spiel des Jahres award twice, for Elfenland in 1998 and for Ticket to Ride in 2004; Ticket to Ride has won almost two dozen other awards worldwide.[1]

Selected list of games

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a full list is available from Moon's website in the external links section.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Moon, Alan R. (2007). "Descent". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 77–80. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
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