×Ben Madison

Board game designer Ben Madison with the game 'Black Skin Black Shirt'

Like books and vinyl LPs, board games continue to hold their own in a world of digital overload. While chess and checkers, Monopoly and Scrabble remain mainstays, recent decades have seen a proliferation of new titles for niche audiences, many of them based on historical events.

One of the Midwest’s most active historical board game creators, R. Ben Madison, lives in Milwaukee. Since 2004, Madison—sometimes working with collaborator Wes Erni—has devised some 20 board games produced and distributed by a variety of companies in the U.S. and abroad, especially Texas-based White Dog Games. Madison’s resume includes games on the Byzantine Empire and both world wars. His recent release for White Dog Games, Bl

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