Brad Talton


David Brad Talton Jr. is a prolific American board game designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, 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 Kickstarter as he thought that his game ideas were good enough to be placed on this crowdfunding 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 Japan for a year where he attended Kwansei Gakuin University. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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: