Links: 7 Wonders Keeps Winning Things, Interviews with Donald X. and Bauza & Lots of Catching Up

• Another day, another award for Antoine Bauza, 7 Wonders and Repos Production – namely the 2011 Deutscher Spiele Preis, which is voted on by gamers and run by Friedhelm Merz Verlag, which organizes the annual Spiel game convention. Here's the list of the top ten vote getters from the DSP website:

-----1. 7 Wonders, by Antoine Bauza (Repos Production)
-----2. Die Burgen von Burgund, by Stefan Feld (alea)
-----3. Troyes, by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges and Alain Orban (Pearl Games)
-----4. Navegador, by Mac Gerdts (PD-Verlag)
-----5. Asara, by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling (Ravensburger)
-----6. Mondo, by Michael Schacht (Pegasus Spiele)
-----7. Pantheon, by Michael Tummelhofer (Hans im Glück)
-----8. Lancaster, by Matthias Cramer (Queen Games)
-----9. Luna, by Stefan Feld (H@ll Games)
-----10. Strasbourg, by Stefan Feld (Pegasus Spiele)

Yes, designer Stefan Feld landed three spots in the top ten. Clearly his designs strike all the right notes for DSP voters.

Monster-Falle by Inka and Markus Brand (Kosmos) won the 2011 Deutschen Kinderspiele Preise, while Expedition Sumatra from Britta Stöckmann and Jens Jahnke (the first release from Igramoon Spieleverlag) won "Goldenen Feder 2011", or the "Golden Feather", for best rules.

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Given all the information coming in about new games at Spiel 2011, I've been slow in putting together a general links post – but that doesn't mean those news bits have stopped coming in. Here's a round-up of what's new since September 1:

• Derek Thompson at Meepletown interviews designer Donald X. Vaccarino about how Dominion can move in new directions, whether any subsequent deck-building design hs broken new ground, and what else you might see from him on the game table. (Note that this interview was published before Ascora Games' announcement of Vaccarino's Nefarious for Spiel 2011.)

• And that early September interview was followed by another from Thompson, this time with designer Antoine Bauza. In this interview, Bauza talks about how 7 Wonders might expand in the future, his fondness for Asian culture, and what's coming from him both in the near future and possibly in 2012.

• U.S. publisher Mayfair Games has announced the formation of Mayfair Games Europe GmbH, a German corporation that will "facilitate distribution of Mayfair Games product throughout the continent" with a planned start date of November 1, 2011.

• Gosu: Kamakor is playable online at Board Game Arena.

• Out of the Box wants suggestions for a Faux•Cabulary Expansion that's in the works for Q2 2012. If you haven't played Faux•Cabulary, here's a summary: Each round, everyone but the active player grabs three "word part" dice. The active player reads a funny definition or situation off a card. Everyone makes a word for this definition/situation from their dice, and the active player chooses one person to win the card.

To submit suggestions for new cards or word parts for the dice, send them (along with your name and email address) to [email protected]. Ten submitters will win a copy of the base game.

• Rebecca Gablé's The Settlers of Catan novel – first released in German in 2003 – has an English edition due out November 15, 2011 release date from Amazon, specifically from the company's AmazonCrossing division.

• Chris Hansen has announced the winners of the Solitaire Print and Play contest here on BGG, with Inspector Moss 2: House Arrest, by designers Rebekah Bissell and Jonathan Warren, taking home the big prize of more than 800 Geekgold. Lots to explore in this thread if you have the time (and don't have opponents).

• GAMES Magazine columnist Thomas McDonald writes about Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype and designers Paul and Christopher Nowak in National Catholic Register. That's coverage you could get thanks only to unusual subject matter and unexpected inspiration for a game design.

• Talk about a late post – here's a Gen Con 2011 report from mid-August from Keith Schleicher that provides a nice round-up of the show's highlights. Sorry for letting this sit in Geekmail so long, Keith!

• And another late one: In addition to online play of After the Flood, SlothNinja Games has implemented an online version of Doug Eckhart's Tammany Hall, originally published by StrataMax Games and now out of print. Want to know what you're missing and pine for a game now tough to find? Here's your chance!