Game Designer

Glenn Drover

Glenn Drover, active 2001–2022, is a game designer and publisher known for civilization- and war-themed strategy games.

11 Games

Biography

Glenn Drover is listed as a game designer and publisher who founded Eagle Games, Tropical Games, and Forbidden Games (per die Originalquelle). He appears with 11 games in our database and was active between 2001 and 2022. Drover is noted in the community as an early adopter of worker-placement ideas and as an informal mentor to other designers.

Career

Drover's work focuses on historical and civilization-style games: many titles fall into the Civilization and Ancient categories and combine Set Collection, Area Movement and Area Majority mechanics. Early releases include Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame (2002) and Attack! (2003), followed by larger projects such as Railways of the World (2005). Over two decades he worked as designer and publisher and contributed ideas later adopted in Euro-style designs.

Most Famous Games

Key titles include Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery (2007, multiple awards noted), Railways of the World (2005) and Mosaic: A Story of Civilization (2022). Other notable releases are Railways of Europe (2008), Conquest of the Empire (2005) and Raccoon Tycoon (2018).

Design Style

His style pairs civilization-driven themes with mechanics like Set Collection, Dice Rolling and Area Majority. He has collaborated with designers such as Martin Wallace and Larry Harris, Jr., bridging wargame and Eurogame elements.