Philippe Keyaerts is a Belgian designer of German-style board games. His two most popular games are Evo

Evo (board game)

Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames. The game won the GAMES Magazine award for Game of the year 2002 and was nominated for the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Board...

and Vinci

Vinci (board game)

Vinci is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts. It resembles a diceless variant of Risk with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic, and is also similar in some ways to History of the World. The game's name, pronounced "Vinki", means "to be conquered" in Latin...

. Those two games use the mechanism of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play. He also invented Space Blast, a small space battle game. Philippe Keyaerts is also credited as the designer of Small World

Small World (game)

Small World is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts, released by Days of Wonder. It received GAMES magazine's award for Best New Game of 2010.-Game play:...

, a 2009 fantasy-themed board game based upon a remake of his popular board game Vinci

Vinci (board game)

Vinci is a board game designed by Philippe Keyaerts. It resembles a diceless variant of Risk with variable special abilities and an original decline mechanic, and is also similar in some ways to History of the World. The game's name, pronounced "Vinki", means "to be conquered" in Latin...

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Keyaerts is also active in the organisation of board game conventions in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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