David Brad Talton Jr. is a prolific American

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designer from

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, who runs the company Level 99 Games. Talton has designed over 100 board games or game items since the year 2010. His number of game designs took off when he discovered

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as he thought that his game ideas were good enough to be placed on this

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platform. He considers the human component to be the most important aspect when designing and playing a game as he try to think about the ways that players will react with the a specific game. He is known as a fan of card play, theme, characters having special abilities, integrating aspects of video games, and creating board game expansions. Talton lived in

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for a year where he attended

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. He graduated from the

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with a bachelor's degree in computer science and briefly worked as a software engineer. Games that Brad Talton has designed or co-designed include the following: * 2010 ''BattleCON: War of Indines'', several versions of this game have been created. * 2012 ''Pixel Tactics'', a tactical combat game for two players * 2012 ''Master Plan'', a

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* 2012 ''Blades of Legend'', a

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deduction board game * 2012 ''Kill the Overlord'', a "take that" game not published by Level 99 Games * 2012 ''NOIR: Deductive Mystery Game'', a two-player deduction game * 2013 ''Disc Duelers'', a dexterity game * 2013 ''7-Card Slugfest'', a fast-playing card game * 2016 ''Millennium Blades'', a game about collecting a

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Designer Spotlight: D. Brad Talton Jr.
* Living people American board game designers University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{board-game-stub