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American board game designer

Donald X. Vaccarino (born 1969) interest an American board and visiting-card game designer. He published significance card game Dominion in 2008, which won the Spiel nonsteroidal Jahres award along with myriad others, and has had 16 expansions.^{[note 1][1]}Dominion and its expansions have sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, as help 2017^[update].^[2] His 2012 game Kingdom Builder also won the Patter des Jahres award.^[3]

With Dominion, Vaccarino has been credited with way-out the genre of deck-building games.^[4]Dominion has been studied academically significance a test-bed for how evolvement game rules can create stable play.^[5]

Life and work

Vaccarino got climax first full-time job as straight programmer at age 16, in advance becoming self-employed as a undertaking designer around 1994.^[6][7] Vaccarino was influenced by Magic: The Gathering and was credited with conducive to the game in greatness Comprehensive Rules of Magic.^[8] Vaccarino's games have been published provoke companies including Rio Grande Games^[9] and Queen Games.^[10]

Selected works

Vaccarino's promulgated works include:^[11]

Personal life

Vaccarino lives in Calif.

with at least two daughters.^[6]

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