Alf Seegert

Board Game designer Alf Seegert with his game Trollhalla










Alf's board games include...

BRIDGE TROLL








TROLLHALLA








THE ROAD TO CANTERBURY








FANTASTIQA









And a bunch more. (See below.)

Alf Seegert is an internationally published designer of Euro-style strategy games. His board games have been featured on BBC America's The Nerdist, in WIRED Magazine, The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian UK, MTV Geek, The Onion AV Club, The Huffington Post, GAMES Magazine, and TheOneRing.net.

Alf has been designing board games since 2001. He has noticed a strange decline in sleep that began.... in 2001. Six of his designs have been end-round finalists at the annual Hippodice board game design competition in Bochum, Germany: The Vapors of Delphi (2nd place, 2004), Bridge Troll (end-round finalist, 2005 -- later published by Z-Man Games), Ziggurat (end-round finalist, 2005), Mont-Saint Michel (end-round "Recommended Title," 2007), TEMBO (3rd place, 2008 -- later published by Z-Man Games as Trollhalla), and DRUID STONES (2nd Place, 2012).

Alf enjoys designing games with unusual and irreverent themes, and when possible, which allow the players to play fantastical characters or villains. His first published title, BRIDGE TROLL, was released in 2009 by Z-Man Games. His second game, TROLLHALLA, was released in spring 2011, also by Z-Man Games.

In Alf's third game, players get to play the bad guy again, this time troll-free, in a parody inspired by Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, THE ROAD TO CANTERBURY: a game of Pilgrims, Pardoners, and the Seven Deadly Sins -- available from FRED/Gryphon Games.

Alf's game, FANTASTIQA, was published by Gryphon Games in late 2012.

Alf holds a masters degree in Philosophy and an MA and PhD in Literature. He is Associate Professor (Lecturer) in English at the University of Utah.

See his homepage at http://www.alfseegert.com.

Designer Diaries


A Game Designer’s Peculiar Pilgrimage along The Road to Canterbury



The Somewhat Bizarre History of Trollhalla



A Wanderer's Way into the Wild, Weird World of Fantastiqa


Interviews


GAMES Magazine interview with Alf Seegert about The Road to Canterbury - April 2012



"Black Humour: an interview with quirky game designer Alf Seegert" in Battlespace Strategy Gaming Magazine (begins on p. 48). - June 2011



"The State of Games" podcast interview on Dice Hate Me with Alf Seegert on The Road to Canterbury - April 2011



Dice Hate Me interview with Alf Seegert on Trollhalla and The Road to Canterbury - March 2011



Z-Man Games Newsletter interview with Trollhalla designer Alf Seegert - February 2011



Alf Seegert Interview with dreamwithboardgames - August 2009



Troll in the Corner interviews Alf Seegert and Ryan Laukat - June 2009



Z-Man Games Newsletter interview with Alf Seegert and Ryan Laukat - June 2009