No monkeying around: board game designer scores a success
When you play a board game, you don't expect to win every time. Well, maybe you hope to; but you don't. That's also true when you design a board game.
Mark Sellmeyer, a 49-year-old graphic designer and St. Louis native, kept trying, however. Now he has earned international recognition as a board game designer.
"I've played them for as long as I can remember," said Sellmeyer. "Me and a group of friends started off on magic, but burned out on that and continued with board games."
Sellmeyer, sporting a a ponytail that puts Willie Nelson to shame, got hooked during the renaissance of the mid-'90s. The market began to absorb new concepts flooding over games from Europe that differed from traditional American games that focused on player elimination. Think Risk or Monopoly. The European model was more structured, with time limits and players able to stay in for the entire game.
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