Game Designer - Roland Weiniger
I started inventing board games as a kid, handicrafting giant boards with hundreds of paper counters. No wonder I became a vivid collector of all forms of games be it board games, tabletop games, cosims, role playing games, trading card games or whatever years later.
I am a proud owner of a quite big, but still not complete Avalon Hill collection (and some hundred of other games too).
I organized board game conventions with my gaming club in Nurmeberg in late 80s / early 90s and at this time I decided to present an own board game called Jihad!. The first run was 20 pieces with a paper board and cards, as well as painted condensers as playing pieces.
It was sold out in a few minutes and it din't take a long time before I had the chance to present my next game to a small game publisher, starting my career as a game designer. I am actually an Essen trade fair veteran and I have exhibited there for more than 10 times. I owned game shops and was a wholesaler for various British and US games and historical miniatures. When my personal business changed, also the focus of my game designs changed to a more serious approach. This lead to a job as a faculty assistant for game design at a private school in Northern Germany and speaking on conferences about Silver Gaming and game related research.
Today I am working on games - both online or classic (board/card) - for pure fun, but also on Serious Games and Game Based Learning. With Proxy Wars I am mix board games with the world of web 2.0 now. I am speaker about various game related subjects like Hybrid Games or Silver Gaming (games for the generation 55+) and hosted a congress for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science recently.
Board games:
Frank' oder Frei: Historical board game, SpieleGilde, 2004
Superheroes-Tabletop: Superheroes Tabletop Game, W&B Verlag 1999
Mystery: Pirates Tabletop Game, W&B Verlag 1999
Hölle über Berlin: WWII card game, G&S Verlag 1998
Peacemaker (official German Edition): Western Tabletop Game, Guernsey Foundry 1997
Meuterer II: Pirates Tabletop Game, W&B Verlag 1997
Gladius: Ancients tabletop game, W&B Verlag 1997
Elementarmacht: Family card game, W&B Verlag 1996
Flintloque (official German Edition): Fantasy tabletop game, Alternative Armies 1996
Eisernes Ross : Family board game, W&B Verlag 1995
Meuterer: Family board game, W&B Verlag 1992, G&S Verlag 1994
Die Gunst des Zaren: Skull Expansion 1994
Weimar: Political board game, W&B Verlag 1994
Holzhack´n auf Bayerisch : Family card game, W&B Verlag 1993
Skull: Sience Fiction sports board game, W&B Verlag 1993
Burgfried: Medieval tactical board game, G&S Verlag 1992
Jihad!: Family board game, W&B Verlag 1991, G&S Verlag 1993
Serious and Advertizing Games
Radio Galaxy Racing Challenge 2010 Online Game: Bamberger Rundfunk GmbH & Co., 2010
Landbierparadies Card Game: Landbierparadies GmbH, 2010
Entrepreneurial Thinking - Business Plan Basics: Game Based Learning, Bavarian Universities, 2010 (Online)
Minimex – in cooperation with the futorologist Prof. Horst W. Opaschowski, 2008
DIY Champions: World Cup Online Game, Black & Decker 2006 (Online)
Frank' oder Frei: Historical board game, SpieleGilde, 2004
Publications:
Roland Weiniger, Robotics in Toys and Games, Fraunhofer Institute Manufacturing Engineering Automation, 2010
Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Jäger, Roland Weiniger, Silver Gaming – a Promising Means against Age-Related Isolation, 2010
Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Jäger, Roland Weiniger, Spielorientierte Gestaltung altersgerechter Benutzeroberflächen von interaktiven Systemen, 2009
Roland Weiniger (Hrsg.): Manöver – Tabletop- & board games magazine, 1997-1999
Karl-Heinz Koch (Hrsg.): Twilight Games in Spiele per Post, 1989