Kevin Wilson (game designer)

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Kevin Wilson
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Kevin Wilson is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games and role-playing games. [1]

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Early life and education

Wilson received a B.A. in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence) from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, and was active in the interactive fiction community at the time. [2] He wrote several works of interactive fiction — including Once and Future and The Lesson of the Tortoise — and founded the annual Interactive Fiction Competition and the Internet magazine SPAG. [2]

Career

Kevin Wilson has been a game designer since the late 1990s. [2] Wilson co-designed 7th Sea (1998), the second role-playing game from Alderac Entertainment Group, with Jennifer Wick and John Wick. [3] : 264  Wilson wrote the adventure Wonders Out of Time (2001), the sequel to Akrasia: Thief of Time (2001) in the "Eden Odyssey" series of adventures from Eden Studios. [3] : 342  Wilson is the co-designer of the Spycraft roleplaying game. [2]

Fantasy Flight Games hired Wilson to manage their retooling on the Legends & Lairs line, and he decided to split the line into smaller sublines made up of smaller sourcebooks. [3] : 346 

Christian T. Petersen and Wilson designed the wargame A Game of Thrones (2003), which was one of several games published by Fantasy Flight in the American style while the company had been republishing eurogames. [3] : 347  Wilson is the author of the RPG book Spellslinger. [2] Petersen and Wilson created a gaming system for Doom: The Boardgame (2004), which was later revised and used in Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2006). [4] [3] : 347 

Wilson also designed World of Warcraft: The Board Game (2005), as well as Arkham Horror second edition (with Richard Launius). [2] He also designed Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game (2010). [5]

Wilson lives near the Twin Cities. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin Wilson | Board Game Designer | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wilson, Kevin (2007). "Vinci". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best . Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 352–355. ISBN   978-1-932442-96-0.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  4. ↑ Theel, Charlie (2024-03-25). "In bettering Descent's Terrinoth with its vibrant world, Kinfire Chronicles has become the fantasy board game to watch". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  5. ↑ True, Mike Didymus- (2024-05-24). ""It's not uncommon for me to revise parts of the game as many as 15 to 20 times": Descent, Arkham Horror design veteran Kevin Wilson dives into worker placement for his third Kinfire game -" . Retrieved 2025-03-21.
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