Victor Boden
Born on September 27th, 1958 in Dresden.
First flying experience at the age of six months. Ever since he has enjoyed travelling through the world.
As a child he spent a lot of time with tinkering and drawing. Growing older he did an apprenticeship as a modelbuilder. Casually, he continues to draw during classes and private lessons.
In the 1990ies he publishes short stories and two albums in the comic scene („Die seltsame Entführung des Daniel Liebmann“ and „Murgelurch“).
At that time he is also eveloping board games for the own family table.
In 1989 he quits his job as modelbuilder and moves from Munich to Freiburg. Seven years later he meets Klaus Zoch whose partner, Albrecht Werstein, is working in Munich. Victor shows them his self-designed space board game which is not producable due to the mass of material. However it looks nice. So, Victor gets his first order to illustrate the Zoch game "Bamboleo".
In 2001 he illustrates „Villa Paletti“ which becomes „Spiel des Jahres“ in 2002.
In the meantime, he started working professionally with the computer and he is continuing to illustrate more and more Zoch games including the rules etc.
Hobbies:
computer games, travelling
Games I would take with me to a remote island:
"Adel verpflichtet",
"Manila",
"Schicki Micki",
Mag Blast
My homepage:
Where do I get my best ideas:
on a walk, when jogging or cycling
Who are my favorite artists?
Hundertwasser, Bilal and Spitzweg
What I like most in illustrating games:
I can arrange my time for myself, and in the end, I get the feeling to have created something nice for nice people.
Games
- 2000 Zapp Zerapp (together with Doris Matthäus)
- 2001 Villa Paletti
- 2003 Iglu Pop
- 2004 Niagara
- 2004 Dawn Under
- 2005 Frische Luft für die Gruft
- 2005 Manila
- 2006 Flussgeister am Niagara
- 2006 Doktor Schlüsselbart
- 2007 Burg Appenzell / Château Roquefort
- 2008 Cheezy Gonzola
- 2008 Suleika