Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (born 10 August 1977 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

) is a game designer. Until now, he published thirteen games and illustrated over 20. Together with other designers, he is active as a game editor since 1999 (amongst others for TransAmerica, 2002). He is co-founder (2000) of the publishing company

Lookout Games Lookout Games is a German board and card game publisher. The company published, among other games, the board game Agricola, which was honored with the ''Complex Game'' award by the German Game of the Year jury in 2008. History The company was fo ...

. His games "Verräter" ("traitor") and "Meuterer" ("mutineer") have won the "À-la-carte-Kartenspielpreis" price of the German games magazine "Fairplay". He's also the initiator of the wiki "Lexikon des Spieleerfindens" ("lexicon of game-invention").

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* * 1977 births Living people German game designers People from Nuremberg {{germany-bio-stub