Johan Eriksson, creator of Oceania 2084 — winner of the 2025 edition of the RPG Magnifico Award — is a game designer and game design teacher primarily focused on tabletop role-playing games, while also creating board games, card games, and experimental avant-garde projects.
He works mostly as an independent creator, a deliberate choice that allows him to maintain complete artistic and creative freedom.
For Eriksson, game design is not a profit-driven activity but an expressive artistic medium. He considers games one of the most important cultural forms because they place the concept of agency at their core: the player’s ability to act, choose, and shape the experience.
According to his philosophy, games are a conversation between designer and players, and a work only reaches its final form through human interaction at the table.
For this reason, he actively encourages direct feedback from players and makes all of his games freely available on his itch.io page.
