Erik AS - Game Designer

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Works as a Board Game Designer (Whirling Witchcraft, Hungry Monkey, The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville, and Where is That?) and an Applied Nuclear Physicist.

BG Stats juli 2026 Omgångar: 38 H-index: 3 Spel: 14 Nya: 1 Spelare: 11 Platser: 2 Timmar: 16 Dagar: 6 Agent Avenue: 8 Quarto: 6 1ers Contacts: 5 Bomb Busters: 3 Where is That: Europe: 3 Signal: 3 Kites: 3 Dune: Imperium: 1 The Old King's Crown: 1 18 skapare: Erik Andersson Sundén: 14% Benjamin Leung: 7% Blaise Muller: 7% Christian Kudahl: 7% Frank D. Ventura: 7%.
Cards scattered over the table. The prototype of Monster Academy.
The nominated games for Guldbrikke. One game is encircled: Where is That: Denmark
Three games in the hotness list of Board Game Geek. The third game is The Glorious guilds of Buttonville
An image of six cards from Monster Academy: Sticky Fingers, Monster Magnet, homework Bonfire, Prank Planning, Rigging the Fundraiser, and Prank Monarch.
The front page of the rulebook to my prototype Einstein's Garden. The game is built for two to four players aged 8 year or older. The game lasts 10- 15 minutes.
A sell sheet for Einstein's Garden, a puzzle game for 2-4 players that lasts about 5 minutes. A tricky puzzle where patterns never repeat. The game is built around the einstein tile, a unique shape that can be used to tile a surface without ever creating the same pattern twice. Play at your own pace. Players draw and place tiles, without waiting for each other. Placing tiles well consistently beats placing tiles fast. A turn: 1. Draw a tile from the shared bag and place it in your own puzzle 2. Claim completed patterns with point markers to score their dots — unclaimed patterns score nothing 3. Repeat 1-3 without waiting for opponents 4. The game ends when the bag runs out Components 32 Einstein tiles 50 point markers 1 drawstring bag 1 rulebook
A photo of me, Erik Andersson Sundén, in front of a painting I’ve inherited from my grand father and grand mother.
A photo of Erik Andersson Sundén, Thorsten Gimmler, and Christian Kudahl. They hold a copy of The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville in front of them.
Three cards ranked from 1 to 3. Also depicted are three suits: vampires, werewolves, and ghosts.
A playerboard of DystopAI. it consists of several tiles with four different colours, representing electricity, water, oxygen, and food.
A sell sheet for Fenrir Rush, a game in development by Magnus Karlsson and Erik Anderson Sundén.
The sell sheet of Einstein's Garden.
A sell sheet for my puzzle game, Einstein's Garden.
A sell sheet for Einstein’s Garden - a real time puzzle game using the Einstein Tile.
Six images of cards named Legionnaire, Spadeling, PAragon, Trailblazer, Roadgambler, and Stairsage.
BG Stats maj 2026 Omgångar: 7 H-index: 1 Spel: 5 Nya: 4 Spelare: 7 Platser: 2 Timmar: 6 Dagar: 4 Agent Avenue: 3 Die Patin: 1 The Old King's Crown: 1 A Study in Emerald (Second Edition): 1 Zombie Crisis: 1 6 skapare: Christian Kudahl: 20% Kuro: 20% Laura Kudahl: 20% Martin Wallace: 20% Pablo Clark: 20%.
a player aid from one of my latest prototypes. It is a co-design with Christian Kudahl and we aim to make a quick numbers game with some, to me, cool emergent game effects.
A board with several tetronimo tiles. To the left is an image of the Fenrir wolf.
A screenshot of a rulebook Fenrir Rush 2-4 players, Age: 8+, Play time: 20 minutes Intro It's the year 3000-something. Fenrir, a giant space wolf, is devouring the galaxy. As space vikings fleeing for your lives, your brilliant survival plan is to build the floor beneath your feet as you run — one tetromino-shaped space tile at a time. Score enough power, and you might just outrun your friends... which, honestly, is all that really matters. In Fenrir Rush, players take turns placing tetromino tiles in space to help their pawns escape from Fenrir. If a player places a tile so that it fits snugly with other tiles, they gain power and earn bonuses. You win the game by escaping far enough from Fenrir, by gaining enough power to overcome him, or by being the last player left uneaten.
A screenshot of four cards in the Dexterous environment.
A header from a DVC games newsletter: ”This is our strangest game”
The prototype of DystopAI, the glorious guilds of Buttonville, and Hvor er det
BG Stats feb. 2026 Omgångar: 21 H-index: 2 Spel: 11 Nya: 2 Spelare: 20 Platser: 2 Timmar: 15 Dagar: 13 Castle Combo: 5 1ers Contacts: 3 Ark Nova: 2 Dewan: 2 The Resistance: Avalon: 2 Twister: 2 Barrage: 1 Vast: The Mysterious Manor: 1 Heat: Pedal to the Metal: 1 19 skapare: Asger Aleksandrov Granerud: 9% Christian Kudahl: 9% Chuck Foley: 9% Daniel Skjold Pedersen: 9% Don Eskridge: 9%.
A screenshot from the three first pages of the rulebook of DystopAI. Our Fastaval 2026 design.
The box cover for the danish and Swedish version of where is that: Europe.
A screenshot from our game DystopAI. Several tiles are in multiple patterns.
BG Stats jan. 2026 Omgångar: 12 H-index: 2 Spel: 7 Nya: 5 Spelare: 11 Platser: 2 Timmar: 8 Dagar: 8 Agent Avenue: 3 Toy Battle: 3 Etherstone: 2 Gaia Project: 1 Railway Boom: 1 Golden Cup: 1 Castle Combo: 1 12 skapare: Simone Luciani: 42% Alessandro Zucchini: 14% Christian Kudahl: 14% Gabriele Bubola: 14% Grégory Grard: 14%.
A pin with an image of a meeple, a pyramid and an eye. Together with the text ”The secret society’s board games designers. Outbid many, fun.”
A puzzle game, DystopAI.
Text from a Social media account "MehGyver": "Penguins not being able to fly is only sad because we call them birds. If you think of their wings as flippers and call them fish, it's a miracle they can walk on land."
Pistage coloured walls
3 tiles, 1 2x2 and 2 1x1, with cubes and meeples on them. Paths and pipes are drawn through the tiles and across their borders.
A photo of the front of the rulebook of the board game Railway Boom. The text Railway Boom is printed in white with Japanese’s signs beneath it. In the background is a landscape in a minimalistic style. A field and a mountain.
A really cute dog, surrounded by board game love.
Geometrical shapes scribbled with a red pen.
A screenshot of a bullet point from the linked page: Glorious Guilds of Buttonville – my current pick for Kennerspiel. A tableau game where you draw cards into your hand and then try to play sets; when you play, you then get the action on the cards. Use 9 different villager types in each game, I have 25 or 26 different options in the box, so there’s a bit of Dominion-ness to it, both in the setup as well as the Turn 0 strategizing.
BG Stats 3 x 3. The Mind Extreme; Ark Nova; 1ers Contacts; Die glorreichen Gilden von Buttonville; Troublebot; Distilled; Harmonies; Where is That: Europe; Signal.
Seven cards with images of witches and animals on them. They are a part of the expansion to Whirling Witchcraft.
A man pointing at a yellow wall.
The action programming system of DystopAI.
An overview of one player's view (to the left) and the Action Selection system (to the right).
The puzzle of DystopAI
BG Stats okt. 2025 Omgångar: 31 H-index: 2 Spel: 14 Nya: 6 Spelare: 9 Platser: 2 Timmar: 13 Dagar: 8 Quarto: 13 Cockroach Poker: 2 Magic Maze: 2 The Plank: 2 Wippe-lig!: 2 Coloro: 2 Feed the Kraken: 1 Dungeon Twister: 1 Golden Cup: 1 17 skapare: Magnus Karlsson: 14% (Uncredited): 7% Blaise Muller: 7% Christophe Boelinger: 7% Dr. Hans Joachim Höh: 7%.
Christian and Erik signing their game The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville at the Ravensburger booth of Spiel.
The cover for Tje glorious guilds of Buttonville. There is a frog in clothes, together with four armed bars as well as an alien painter on the box.
The logo for Spiel
BG Stats sep. 2025 Omgångar: 21 H-index: 3 Spel: 12 Nya: 2 Spelare: 17 Platser: 2 Timmar: 12 Dagar: 10 Jenga: 3 Quarto: 3 Duel for Cardia: 3 Gobblet Gobblers: 3 Golden Cup: 2 Ark Nova: 1 Agricola: 1 Rats of Wistar: 1 The Castles of Burgundy: 1 17 skapare: Simone Luciani: 16% Blaise Muller: 8% Danilo Sabia: 8% Denis Blanchot: 8% Faouzi Boughida: 8%.
Cover image for the board game Einstein’s Garden. The tagline reads “A puzzle game without turns” by Erik Andersson Sundén. The game information shows 2–4 players, 15 minutes playtime, ages 8+. The background features interlocking hexagonal tiles in black, pink, and yellow with abstract geometric patterns.
A screenshot from the French board game reviewer Girl Dot Games
A screenshot of a text message: Hi Daniel Olai & Erik Andersson Sundén, Thank you for your submission for Fastaval 2026. We are thrilled to inform you that we have accepted your game "DystopAI" for Fastaval 2026!
Craters Become the next leader of Lunar Nexus Designed by Erik Andersson Sundén Graphics by Christopher Stenseth Intro The Moon’s surface isn’t for the clean or the careful. It's a cratered hellscape stitched together with salvage, sweat, and shadow deals. At the heart of it lies Lunar Nexus—a sprawling industrial sprawl where three power blocs claw for dominance: the Moles, digging deep and building hard; the Octopuses, always watching, always adapting; and the Hawks, sharp-eyed traders playing every angle. You're here to carve out your share. Buy the loyalty of the labor. Stake your claim. And if the air smells off? That’s just the price of doing business.
A custom game hex tile with a reddish face showing three icons divided by black lines: a card with a building symbol, a mineral icon, and circular symbol of a tile.
BG Stats aug. 2025 Omgångar: 32 H-index: 3 Spel: 17 Nya: 3 Spelare: 10 Platser: 2 Timmar: 19 Dagar: 15 Cockroach Poker: 6 That's Not a Hat: 4 Undaunted: Stalingrad: 3 Drop It: 3 Joking Hazard: 2 Rebel Princess: 2nd Edition: 2 Flip 7: 2 Rats of Wistar: 1 Risk of Rain: The Board Game: 1 28 skapare: (Uncredited): 5% Alan R. Moon: 5% Alex Hague: 5% Bernhard Lach: 5% Bruno Faidutti: 5%.
Colorful promotional image for the board game expansion Whirling Witchcraft: Fantastic Familiars. A banner with a witch, raven, and mouse frames the title. Below is a parchment scroll with the text: “Welcome back, witches! Some new witches have set up shop in town, and for better or worse, their familiars seem to have made a home for themselves on your workbench! New arcana has been unearthed to add different powers to every game!”
A board game prototype with colorful square tiles arranged on a green surface. The tiles show various symbols, including water drops, gears, tools, wheat, oxygen, meeples, and arrows, in colors like blue, yellow, green, gray, and red.
A tabletop setup of Risk of Rain: The Board Game. The board is covered in colorful cards, tokens, and miniature figures of astronauts and monsters arranged across modular terrain tiles. Player boards with character cards, item tokens, and decks of cards are set up on the left, while enemies and other game components are spread across the play area. The game’s title, “Risk of Rain: The Board Game,” is printed prominently on the lower right of the board.
Illustrated stamps and matching photos of two landmarks: Wawel Castle in Poland, a historic castle complex with red rooftops, towers, and gardens; and the Carnac Stones in France, a field filled with rows of ancient standing stones under a blue sky.
Four-panel black-and-white Calvin and Hobbes comic featuring Susie Derkins. Panel 1: Susie wipes a tear and says, “Sniff That stupid Calvin. Why does he call me names for no reason? It’s just mean.” Panel 2: She crosses her arms and declares, “I wish I had a hundred friends. Then I wouldn’t care. I’d say, ‘Who needs you, Calvin? I’ve got a hundred other friends!’” Panel 3: She grins mischievously: “Then my hundred friends and I would do something fun, and leave Calvin all alone! Ha!” Panel 4: Sitting on the ground, she adds, “…and as long as I’m dreaming, I’d like a pony.”