The best games from James Ernest 🇺🇸👨 2023

Looking for a really good game from game designer James Ernest 👨? Then we have just the thing: the list with the best James Ernest games 2023.

Who is James Ernest anyway?

James Ernest has been designing dice, card & board games since 1993. The game designer hails from the USA🇺🇸 and currently lives in Seattle, Washington, USA 🇺🇸. He is also known as the owner and lead designer of Cheapass Games.

Ernest's first game "Kill Doctor Lucky" he developed in 1993 at the age of 1993 - so he has been designing games for over 30 years. Famous Ernest games are for example Kill Doctor Lucky, Lords of Vegas oder Pirates of the Spanish Main.

From juggler to game developer

Before founding Cheapass Games, Ernest worked as a juggler at various places, including Camlann Medieval Village, and as a freelancer at Wizards of the Coast. He also worked for Carbonated Games. Ernest has also developed games for other publishers, including Rio Grande Games and WizKids. In 2005, Paizo Publishing co-founded Titanic Games with Ernest and Mike Selinker.

Kickstarter experience

He has had success with Kickstarter, where he has successfully crowdfunded games including a new version of Unexploded Cow and Get Lucky (which takes the concept and core mechanics of Kill Doctor Lucky and adapts it as a card game).

In 2014, James began collaborating with Patrick Rothfuss to create an abstract strategy game called Tak, based on a game described in Rothfuss' 2011 book The Wise Man's Fear. In April 2016, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring the game to actual release. The campaign ended on May 20, 2016 with great success and 12,187 backers donating $1,351,142.

How good are "James Ernest" games?

There are 2 games by James Ernest in our Top1000 games list, making Ernest the #147 best game author out of a total of 708 authors in our database.

More information about Ernest

More information about Ernest can be found on:

• Ernest's BGG profile
• Ernest's Twitter feed
• James Ernest's Facebook page
• Tumbler page of Ernest
• official James Ernest website
• english Wikipedia entry for James Ernest

List of best games by James Ernest 2023

In this list we have listed the best board games that James Ernest either designed himself - or was involved in designing.

Unfortunately, not all of James Ernest's games are currently available. In the following list you can find all dice, board & card games by James Ernest that you can buy 2023: