Hi!

I'm Alf Seegert, professor at the University of Utah, game designer, and game writer.

I teach courses in the Department of English, including Video Game Storytelling; Literature, Film, and Video Games; Virtuality and Enchantment; Introduction to Critical Theory; and Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen.

I'm also an Affiliate Professor for Entertainment Arts and Engineering, EAE. 

Eleven of my board games have been published so far and include Haven, Fantastiqa, The Road to Canterbury, Heir to the Pharaoh, and Dingo's Dreams. More are on the way! 

I'm also a writer of interactive fiction, including story encounters for Ryan Laukat's storytelling board games Above and Below, Near and Far, and Sleeping Gods: Tides of Ruin with Red Raven Games (the avatar above is one Ryan created based on me for Near and Far, with thanks to Jake "Seven" Thomashow for the wonderful calligraphy from Illumination). 

This is a close up from my game The Road to Canterbury, with the Parson marking the sin to which game designers are most susceptible. Photo courtesy of Chris Kirkman of Dice Hate Me.

Selected links: 

• My favorite link goes on top: Two Towels calls my game The Road to Canterbury "The best ecclesiastical, penance-based, medieval-themed board game you'll play this year." Probably. That made my day. 
• Tied for favorite: Board Game Sanctuary's quirky and highly informative review of my game Haven. If you want to learn how to play it, this video is a perfect orientation. 
• Purple Phoenix Games gives a glowing review to the new edition of The Road to Canterbury. 
• ILLUMINATION is reviewed here by Space-Biff. "It’s as mesmerizing as a Gregorian chant, as jaunty as a day away from the monastery, and brimming with moments of anticipation and reversal."
• ILLUMINATION is now available to purchase from Eagle-Gryphon Games.
• The new "Impoverished Pilgrim's Edition" of my game The Road to Canterbury is now available to purchase from Eagle-Gryphon Games. 
• Inverse on "12 Board Games for Earth Day," or, "12 Board Games that Fix the Biggest Problem with Settlers of Catan." Includes interview and my game Haven. 
• EndersGame on BoardGameGeek reviews Illumination here. 
• You can now obtain Haven directly from Red Raven Games. 
• My game Haven is reviewed here by Space-Biff. 
• The Dice Tower gives my game Haven its Seal of Approval. 
• Rahdo Runs Through my game Heir to the Pharaoh, calling it "crackerjack smart" and a "very cleverly designed, very intense 2-player battle of wits."  
• SpaceBiff has posted a review of my board game Heir to the Pharaoh: "...a tight, clever, brisk, artistically brilliant, and never-dull game for two that I’ll be happy to call mine for years to come."
• AndHeGames interviewed me here.
• New Fantastiqa expansions include a special new card dedicated to Rich Sommer of Mad Men, who talked about Fantastiqa on BBC America's The Nerdist!
• Artistry in Games has a wonderful, art-filled review of Fantastiqa here. 
• ​My article "The Mistress of Sp[l]ices: Technovirtual Liaisons in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel" is now published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. You can read it here. 
• My chapter "Ewe, Robot" in Philip K. Dick and Philosophy is now available here.