He has carved out a unique niche with werewolf themed games, from Ultimate Werewolf to Werewords to the Silver series of card games. He founded Bezier Games in 2006 with the release of Start Player.Īlspach's games range from social deduction and party games to mid-weight strategy games. At Adobe, he also authored a patent for vector-based flares.Īlspach also worked in product management at Intuit and Corel, as well as gamification software company Bunchball, before leaving the software industry completely in 2013.Īlspach's journey in the game industry began with publishing several expansions for Age of Steam. He oversaw the release of Illustrator 9, 10, CS, CS2, and Creative Suite CS, CS2, and was responsible for many transformative Illustrator features including Live Effects, Transparency, Envelopes, and the integration of Adobe Dimensions 3D software into Illustrator. Over the next several years, Alspach wrote more than 30 books on graphics and desktop publishing, including the bestselling Illustrator For Dummies series.Īlspach worked at Adobe as Group Product Manager for Illustrator and the Creative Suite from 1999 to 2006. He published his first book, The Macworld Illustrator Bible, in 1995, which contained a foreword written by Pierre Bézier. During this time, Alspach designed two popular typefaces: RansomNote and Left圜asual, the latter of which has been used for branding for Comedy Central, Pixar, and Levi Strauss & Co.Īs a result of developing training curriculum, Alspach began writing reviews and how-to articles for magazines such as MacAddict and Macworld. This turned into an opportunity in system design and training as the small company transitioned into Teeple Graphics (which enabled printing and graphics companies to move from analog to digital tools). While there, he founded and published a school magazine there, The Grand Tham, funded entirely by local business advertisements.Īs a college senior, Alspach interned at Laser Graphics 2000, one of the country's first graphics service bureaus. in Marketing from Messiah College in Grantham, PA. He credits his father and grandfather with instilling in him a love of board games from a very early age. He served as its Group Product Manager for several releases and published 18 books on it over the course of 20 years.Īlspach was born in New York on February 1, 1968, and grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Alspach is also one of the world's leading experts on Adobe Illustrator. One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Ultimate Werewolf, and Werewords. He is best known as the designer of Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Suburbia, Ted Alspach is an American game designer and CEO of Bezier Games, Inc. Werewords, Ultimate Werewolf, One Night Ultimate Werewolf Series, Suburbia, Castles of Mad King Ludwig