Marcel-André Casasola Merkle (born 10 August 1977 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...

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) is a game designer. He has published thirteen games, including ''

Rules! ''Rules!'' is a 2014 educational puzzle video game co-developed by Marcel-André Casasola Merkle and Agnes Lison and published by TheCodingMonkeys. It was released for iOS in August 2014 and became the first game to be released on the Apple Watch ...

'', and illustrated for 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 owned by Asmodee. 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 T ...

. 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