Michael Kiesling

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Michael Kiesling (born 1957) is a German board game designer. Many of his games have been nominated for or have won the Spiel des Jahres, a German games award.

Kiesling began working as a full time game designer in 1989.^[1] In 1988, he was one of the signatories of the "Coaster Proclamation" by a consortium of German game designers at the Nuremburg Toy Fair vowing not to allow distributors to produce game without being properly credited on the game box. The movement successfully ensured greater recognition of game designers in the German game industry.^[2]

He is best known for the 2018 Spiel des Jahres winner Azul^[3][4] and for co-authoring with Wolfgang Kramer the board game trilogy Tikal, Java, and Mexica,^[5] as well as Torres.^[6]