Corey Young 🔜 Gen Con

@coreyyoung.com

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Tabletop game designer 🎲✂️, laser-cut game accessory maker, otrovert, and Star Trek fan🖖 (he/him)

BGG entry for Gravwell Released in 2013
Dune logo
Cribbage hand of 6 cards J,J,4,4,3,2
Image of a shadow box full of small items
Headline reads “Strange glowing ‘bow-and-arrow’ structure may be giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision”
Chart showing the following data: Card Average 1 7.5 2 10.5 3 13.9 4 10.9 5 12.1 6 13.3 7 14.5 8 15.7 9 14.7 10 15.6 11 16.5
An odometer reading 172271
Screen grab showing that voting ends 2 days after the award ceremony.
All the parts unfold flat. They fit together with magnets.
Bike anchors in concrete. They look like the circle on top of a Teletubby
Thunder Road game showing a custom merge board
Scene from mad max showing many cars spread in a line
Subliminal message. Nothing to see here. But while you're here, it IS among the finalists in the light strategy category. Please and THANK YOU!
Hero box art for Toy Battle
Original Gravwell box from Cryptozoic
A page from my current design notebook showing an isometric drawing of a thing and a flat version of it
PL-12 Airtruk (as seen in Mad Max Beyond Tunderdome)
Barney Miller
generic interoffice envelope. The old kind that sealed with a string.
Baldish infant in a Star Trek uniform. He’s holding a mini tricorder (key ring novelty) we found.
Flag of the city of Chicago
DS9 opening title saying "You'll understand when you grow up"
Image of a typesetting kit. It shows 2 cases; an upper and a lower
Animated Kirk with webbed fingers
My son (around age 4) wearing an inverted Happy Meal box
Me atop a truck full of hay.
Absolute crap costume, featuring a papier-mâchÊ mask
Old woman holding a baby
Height metric showing a steady line
Box art from FitFD
Cover of “Familiar Find” game
A World at War: 4.85 — Often cited as the pinnacle of rulebook density, this massive global WWII simulation is notorious for its steep learning curve. Europa Universalis (1993): 4.82 — A predecessor to the popular video game, this original board version is extremely detailed in its administrative and military systems. High Frontier 4 All: 4.81 — A hard-science space exploration game where players manage orbital mechanics and complex resource chains. 1817: 4.78 — Generally considered the most complex of the 18xx train games, featuring intricate short selling, mergers, and financial maneuvering. Advanced Squad Leader: 4.74 — A tactical WWII game known for having a modular rulebook that is thousands of pages long when fully expanded. Aeon Trespass: Odyssey: 4.74 — A massive campaign game combining tactical combat, exploration, and deep narrative management. The Campaign for North Africa: 4.74 — Famous for its extreme detail (including tracking water rations for individual units), it is often more legendary than it is actually played. High Frontier (Third Edition): 4.70 — An earlier iteration of the space-science sim that remains one of the heaviest entries in the database.
8.5cm compact ballpoint
I can’t interpret this shitty infographic
Score sheet showing 415 points
App score screen showing 2 teams tied at 300.
Image from Allplay's newsletter, highlighting their 4 finalist entries for the Origins Award. Titles include 3 Witches, Alibis, Flamecraft Duals, and Galactic Cruise.
Pale blue dot We miss you Carl
Cassette of Supertramp's "Breakfast in America"
A final score screen from the Ticket to Ride app. One player has a score of -9
Marco from The Expanse
3 Witches is among the nominees in the Light Strategy Game category for the 2026 Origins Award
Monopoly board showing yellow owning all the lower cost properties and utilities and rail lines vs the other player having owning (but having mortgaged) the 3 most expensive sets.
Big Baby from Magical Athlete
Cover of Stardust album by Willie Nelson
Light Strategy Game • 3 Witches Allplay • Diatoms Ludoliminal • Finspan Stonemaier Games • Rowdy Partners Capstone Games • Sanctuary Capstone Games • Star Wars: Battle for Hoth Days of Wonder • Tag Team Scorpion Masqué • Tea Garden Capstone Games • Timelancers Party Tails • Winter Rabbit Devsisters
Me beside the GAMA Expo sign
Image of Pikachu’s butt. IYKYK
Medisonmanminis made 3D versions of the fate tokens from my game
An office with a large arched window, overlooking an enclosed arcade with a glass domed roof. Arcade Center in Dayton
Matt from Cleveland won the inaugural “Golden Cauldron” trophy
Store shelf with several games, including mine.
Iced cookie with 3 witch hats on it
12 book covers with f’d up faces
Cauldron-shaped trophy for the upcoming tournament at Epic Loot Games in Centerville. Text on the plate reads: GOLDEN CAULDRON "3 Witches" Tournament Epic Loot - 2026
2 promo cards for Thunder Road
We used to buy software in boxes. We paid for them once, then owned them forever. Sounds crazy, I know. This is the box for KPT
My dad, Mert Young, near our family home in Port Huron
A monopoly board showing hotels on all the properties along the bottom row. All owned by yellow
Deathlok