Antoine Bauza


Antoine Bauza is a French game designer. He designs board games, role-playing games and video games as well as being an author of children's books.
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Life and career

Bauza was born on 25 August 1978. As a teenager, he was very interested in role-playing games, and wanted to become a video game designer. However, Bauza decided not to pursue video games as a career because he did not want to move away to Shanghai or Montreal, where video game companies were hiring at the time. He instead decided to become a teacher. After reconnecting with friends who started to hold their own game nights, Bauza began making his first board game prototypes in 2003 during his free time while studying at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres.
An avid board game player, Bauza decided to start making board games in 2007. In 2010, he began working on board games full-time.
In January 2025, his game 7 Wonders was incorporated as one of twenty-five games into the BoardGameGeek Hall of Fame

Board games

ChabyrintheDraftosaurusGhost StoriesHurry’Cup BakongPocket RocketsMonster Chase!Pony ExpressHanabi7 Wonders 7 Wonders DuelRockband ManagerMystery ExpressDojoDr. SharkWitty PongTakenokoAliTokaidoNamijiThe Little Prince: Make Me a PlanetTerror in Meeple CitySamurai SpiritVictorian MastermindsWelcome back to the dungeon
  • Last Bastion

Role-playing games

ExilFinal Frontier

Video games

Furry Tales
  • ''World of Lovecraft''

Awards

Meeples' Choice Award for 7 WondersDeutscher Spiele Preis for 7 WondersKennerspiel des Jahres for 7 WondersAs d'or Jeu de l'année for TakenokoSpiel des Jahres for Hanabi