Donald X. Vaccarino Explained

Donald X. Vaccarino (born 1969) is an American board and card game designer. He published the card game Dominion in 2008, which won the Spiel des Jahres award along with many others, and has had 15 expansions, 2 of which have been combined into one.[1] Dominion and its expansions have sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, as of 2017.[2] His 2012 game Kingdom Builder also won the Spiel des Jahres award.[3]

With Dominion, Vaccarino has been credited with pioneering the genre of deck-building games.[4] Dominion has been studied academically as a test-bed for how evolving game rules can create balanced play.[5]

Life and work

Vaccarino got his first full-time job as a programmer at age 16, before becoming self-employed as a game designer around 1994.[6] [7] Vaccarino was influenced by and was credited with contributing to the game in the Comprehensive Rules of Magic.[8] Vaccarino's games have been published by companies including Rio Grande Games[9] and Queen Games.[10]

Selected works

Vaccarino's published works include:[11]

Personal life

Vaccarino lives in California with at least two daughters.[6]

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dominion Announces 15th Expansion . 2022-11-29 . GAMING . en.
  2. News: Table-top Generals . The Economist . 6 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Kingdom Builder . 2022-11-29 . Spiel des Jahres . en-US.
  4. Book: Livingstone . Ian . Board Games in 100 Moves . Wallis . James . 2019-09-17 . Penguin . 978-1-4654-9871-7 . en . 150.
  5. Book: Mahlmann . Tobias . Togelius . Julian . Yannakakis . Georgios N. . 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation . Evolving card sets towards balancing dominion . June 2012 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6256441 . 1–8 . 10.1109/CEC.2012.6256441. 978-1-4673-1509-8 . 15555254 .
  6. Web site: Dagmar . 2021-02-03 . Spelauteur onder het vergrootglas: Donald X. Vaccarino – Spellengek . 2023-12-06 . nl-NL.
  7. Web site: Interview with Donald X. Vaccarino Donald X. Vaccarino . 2024-07-20 . BoardGameGeek . en-US.
  8. Book: Hiwiller, Zack . The Game Designer's Playlist: Innovative Games Every Game Designer Needs to Play . 2018-08-14 . Addison-Wesley Professional . 978-0-13-487329-9 . en.
  9. Web site: Dominion . 2022-11-29 . Rio Grande Games . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021-01-21 . Kingdom Builder . 2022-11-29 . Queen Games - Connecting Generations . en-US.
  11. Web site: Donald X. Vaccarino . 2022-11-29 . www.luding.org.

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