Hello there!
I am a Norwegian board game designer, having designed games professionally since 2004.
In 2014 I co-founded the publisher Aporta Games, which I manage and run in cooperation with Eilif Svensson.
Below you will find a selection of my designs.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me by using the form to the right.
If you're looking for Aporta Games' web page, GO HERE.
-Kristian
Some of my games
Trails of Tucana
Published by: Aporta Games (2019)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Quick flip'n'write for 1-10 players, playing time 15 minutes.
Santa Maria
Published by: Aporta Games (2017)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Strategy game for 1-4 players, playing time 60-90 minutes.
Offshore
Published by: Aporta Games (2019)
Co-designed with Thor Egil Braadland & Eilif Svensson
Family strategy game for 3-5 players, playing time 60 minutes.
Four suspects
Published by: Ten Days Games (2016)
Deduction game for 2-5 players.
Playing time 30 minutes.
Capital Lux
Published by: Aporta Games (2016)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Tactical card game for 2-4 players, playing time 30-45 minutes.
Avenue
Published by: Aporta Games (2016)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Family game for 1-10 players
Playing time 20 minutes
Escape:
The curse of the temple
Published by: Queen Games (2012)
Award winning cooperative real-time action game.
You have 10 minutes to explore the temple, return the cursed gems, and find the exit.
Several mini expansions (Queenies) have been released for this game, as well as three main expansions:
- Illusions (2012)
- Quests (2013)
- Traps (2015)
Escape: Zombie City
Published by: Queen Games (2014)
Stand-alone game in the Escape series
Real-time cooperative game for 2-4 players
Several mini expansions (Queenies) have been released for this game, as well as one main expansion:
- The Survivor Chronicles (2015)
Automania
Published by: Aporta Games (2015)
Co-designed with Kenneth Minde
Family strategy game for 2-4 players.
Playing time 60-90 minutes.
Perfect Alibi
Published by: Lautapelit / Vennerød (2015)
Deduction game for 3-5 players
Playing time 30-45 minutes
Doodle City
Published by: Aporta Games (2014)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Family game for 1-6 players
Draw a network of roads through your city to connect hotels and shops, parks and houses.
Kampen om Fredriksten
Published by: Rognøy publishing (2013)
Family game where players are merchant families in the city of Halden during the 17th century.
Use dice to activate your businesses, earn money, building material and soldiers, and help protect the city against the Swedish invaders.
Roll to the South Pole
Published by: Rio Grande Games / Vennerød (2012)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson and Emil Amundsen
Family game for 2-5 players
Choose your equipment, find the optimal route, and push your luck as you venture into no-man's land, trying to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Scheibenkleister
Published by: Huch & Friends (2012)
Party/word game for 3-12 players
One player tries to describe a word, term or person to the other players.
One opponent is the trap maker who tries to foresee how the explainer will describe the word. The trap maker secretly writes down forbidden trap words - which are unknown to the explainer, but which she still needs to avoid.
Amundsen: Kappløpet til Sydpolen
Published by: Vennerød (2011)
Co-designed with Eilif Svensson
Family game for 2-5 players, age 7+
Playing time 20 minutes
Quick and easy family game where you push your luck trying to achieve dice combinations to advance your tent towards the South Pole.
Note: Although the box graphics are the same as that used for "Roll to the South Pole", the gameplay is different.
Mammut
Published by: Queen Games (2011)
Family game for 2-5 players
Playing time 30 minutes
The spoils of the mammoth hunt need to be divided, and everyone tries to secure the largest share for themselves.
Hotel Samoa
Published by: White Goblin Games (2010)
Family game for 3-6 players
Samoa. A popular vacation resort, where groups of tourists arrive every week. The hotel owner's only care is to give these tourists the stay of their life - and of course to rid them of as much money as possible.
Phenomena
Published by: Gyldendal (2007)
Adventure game for 2-5 players
Based on the Norwegian fantasy book series by Ruben Eliassen.
Travel through the land of Aldra, harvest magic stones, advance in the skills of fighting, wisdom and friendship, learn powerful spells, and fulfil prophecies to defeat the evil magician Sherpa.
Mutiny on Little Blue
Published by: Egmont (2004)
Bluffing/negotiation game for 3-7 players
"Little Blue" arrives at a new island, and the Captain can bring one other cew member ashore to collect treasures. The Captain, however, is a very old and senile man, his eyesight is bad, it's foggy and the middle of the night, so it's hard to tell who is who. The other players must convince the captain to bring them along, by negotiating or bluffing about their identity.
