Martin Wallace is a game designer from Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, England

England

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. He is the founder and chief designer of Treefrog (former Warfrog) Games. Wallace is known for designing complex strategy game

Strategy game

A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...

s that depict a variety of historical settings. Two themes he has frequently used are the construction and operation of railroads, and the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. He has developed a reputation for blending elegant European style game mechanics with the strong themes that are more typical of American style games. Many of his games feature economic systems, incorporating rules for income, taxation, and debt.

Martin Wallace's most popular game, Age of Steam, was the winner of the 2003 International Gamers Award, and is one of the top twenty rated games on BoardGameGeek

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Notable games

• Empires of the Ancient World (2000)
• Liberté (2001)
• Volldampf (2001)
• Age of Steam (2002)
• Tyros (2002)
• Princes of the Renaissance (2003)
• Runebound
  Runebound
  Runebound is a 1-6 player high fantasy adventure board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2004. A second edition was published in 2005. In Runebound, players take the roles of adventurers who seek out quests . The quests are then resolved with either victory for the player, or a loss of some...
  
  (2004)
• Struggle of Empires (2004)
• Byzantium (2005)
• Railroad Tycoon
  Railroad Tycoon (board game)
  Railroad Tycoon is a railway-themed board game designed by Martin Wallace and Glenn Drover. The game, published in 2005 by Eagle Games, is derived from Wallace's earlier railway-themed game Age of Steam with more stylistic box art and simplified rules. Railroad Tycoon takes place in the eastern...
  
  (2005)
• Tempus (2006)
• Perikles (2006)
• Brass
  Brass (board game)
  Brass is a board game set in Lancashire, England during the Industrial Revolution. The object is to build mines, cotton factories, ports, canals and rail links, and establish trade routes. The game is divided into two historical periods: the canal period and the rail period. Victory points are...
  
  (2007)
• Tinners' Trail (2008)
• After The Flood (2008)
• Steel Driver (2008)
• Steam: Rails to Riches (2009)
• Waterloo (2009)
• Automobile (2009)
• Last Train to Wensleydale (2009)
• God's Playground (2009)
• Moongha Invaders (2010)
• Age of Industry (2010)
• London (2010)
• A Few Acres of Snow (2011)
• Ankh-Morpork (2011)

External links

• Martin Wallace article in The Games Journal
• Rank-ordered list of Martin Wallace's games