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.
Hi!
I'm Alf Seegert. I am a professor at the University of Utah and design board games. To learn about my current projects and past pursuits, please select from the links above.
Latest updates:
Thanks!
Alf
Latest updates:
- 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's review of my latest 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."
- I'm happy to be working yet again with Red Raven Games. I'm writing story encounters and questlines for Ryan Laukat's epic storygame Near and Far, the sequel to Above and Below.
- For Fall 2016 I'm teaching The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen, Intro to Critical Theory, and Video Games and Storytelling.
- My new game, Heir to the Pharaoh, comes out later this year. (15 years in the making!)
- Red Raven Games has published my latest game, Dingo's Dreams.
- I'm a writer for Ryan Laukat's exciting new storytelling board game Above and Below.
- AndHeGames recently interviewed me here.
- My latest game, MUSÉE, is now available!
- 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!
- Cubist, a new board game I co-designed with Steve Poelzing, is now available. Early reviews are in!
- Artistry in Games has a wonderful, art-filled review of Fantastiqa here.
- My new interactive fiction game Ritual is playable here.
- My new 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 article "Ewe, Robot" in Philip K. Dick and Philosophy is now available here.
- I recently wrote an article for "Why I Design Games" which goes into some detail about my game Fantastiqa.
Thanks!
Alf
