Strategy Board Game Designer

Dean Morris

I design gateway-plus and mid-weight euro games built around spatial puzzles. Most build upward as well as outward, using tactile 3D components to give them real presence on the table: games that pull people over to watch, and reward them when they sit down.

Pacific Rails Inc. and Florence are published, and Highlands goes to crowdfunding in 2027. Everything else is a prototype, and the artwork shown for them is placeholder.

Australian, living in London. I'm at UK Games Expo and Essen Spiel every year to pitch in person. Full details of every game are below: sell sheets, rules, links to TTS and videos. Some of them are playable online in your web browser.

Portfolio

Games

Currently Pitching

Seeking Publisher 4 titles

Fancy That!Pitching

A spot of strategy with your afternoon tea. At this tea party you fancy everything - but your eyes are bigger than your board. Every treat you serve leaves behind an empty plate that never clears away. Serve shrewdly, though and you'll be the one who takes the cake.

2–4 Players45 MinAge 10+

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Firefly FestivalPitching

A route-building game that grows upwards as well as outwards. Span the water with bridges and stack the sky with pagodas - but height must be earned: every tower is a promise your bridges must keep.

2–4 Players45–60 MinAge 10+

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Acacia - Eject FourPitching

Like Connect Four, but you can knock the other player's pieces off the board. Owls and squirrels fight for the hollows of a towering acacia, and every attack is a gamble: replacing what you lose costs you dearly. Teach it in five minutes, analyse it for years.

2 Players15–30 MinAge 6+

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Greener PasturesPitching

An engine builder where your rivals are the engine. Every farmer grows a single crop, so everyone needs everyone - and every neighbour who visits your farm leaves coins behind. Other games ask you to ignore your opponents. This one pays you to use them.

1–4 Players40–60 MinAge 10+

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In Development

In Development 2 titles

SegoviaIn Development

A strategic tile-placement game where players build the iconic aqueduct and cathedral of Segovia through clever hand management and spatial planning.

2–4 Players45–60 MinAge 12+

About FaceIn Development

About Face is a trick-taking game where players navigate a map competing to win at one location, then strategically lose at the same spot. A clever game of timing and misdirection.

2–4 Players30–45 MinAge 12+

Signed

In Production 1 title

HighlandsSigned

A card-driven engine building euro game set in the Scottish highlands.

2–4 Players90–120 MinAge 14+

Published

Available Now 2 titles

Pacific Rails Inc.Published

Build the Transcontinental railroad in this worker placement network game!

2–4 Players60–90 MinAge 14+

FlorencePublished

Woo the Medici in a Euro-style area control game set in Renaissance-era Florence.

1–5 Players40–80 MinAge 14+

Archive

3 titles

Icebreaker

The icebreaker no one dreads. Match symbols, swap names, learn the whole room - then watch those names secretly link everyone into one human chain. A Dobble-style party game for 9–57 players. Come play the room.

9–57 Players20–30 MinAge 12+

Superfan Convention

Superfan Convention is a euro-style worker placement game for 2–5 players where rival fan clubs compete to meet celebrities, collect selfies, and out-geek the competition at the world's most chaotic pop culture convention.

2–5 Players45–75 MinAge 12+

Bucket List

Bucket List is a card drafting game about collecting the places you've visited, the creatures you've spotted, and the wonders you've seen. Every card has a checkbox - tick it off if you've really been there or spotted it in the wild, and watch your personal bucket list grow with every game you play.

2–5 Players20 MinAge 8+

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