Are both Fresco and Torres german based board games?
yes
Torres (board game)
Torres is a German-style board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 1999 by FX Schmid in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
 The game strongly influenced Kramer and Kiesling's Mask Trilogy of games, but is not considered to be a part of the trilogy.
 The game has since been reprinted (in 2005).
Fresco (board game)
Fresco is a 2010 designer board game by Marco Ruskowski and Marcel Süßelbeck.
 It was nominated for the 2010 Spiel des Jahres award and won the 2010 Deutscher Spiele Preis.
 Each player in Fresco takes the role of master painter attempting to restore the fresco on a cathedral ceiling, earning points for each section they repair.
 Players must manage a team of apprentices who will buy or mix the required paints, paint portraits to earn money, and keep the bishop happy.
 Overworked apprentices may leave the painter's service, reducing the actions the player can take.
 A player can improve morale, and even gain extra actions, by letting his workers sleep late.
 However, this can allow earlier players to block his ability to buy necessary paints or to restore a section of the fresco before he can get to it.
James M. Day
James M. Day is an American game designer best known for military based board games, computer games, card games, and miniature rules.
 He is also an accomplished historian and military weaponry subject matter expert. David Parlett
David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "The Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "The Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print.
 Parlett also invented a number of board games, the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974).
 The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979. Days of Wonder
Days of Wonder is a board game publisher owned by Asmodee Group since 2014.
 Founded in 2002, Days of Wonder distributes its games to 25 countries.
 It specialises in German-style board games and have branched out to include some online games.
 Days of Wonder has published games in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Danish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Greek.
 Days of Wonder was co-founded by Eric Hautemont, Pierre Gaubil, Mark Kaufman & Yann Corno.
 Under the guidance of the company's Creative Director, Cyrille Daujean, the company quickly made a name for itself as a publisher of board games with top notch components and gorgeous designs. Late for the Sky Production Company
Late for the Sky Production Company is a U.S. based board game production and manufacturing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 They were founded in 1984.
 They manufacture games based on Monopoly. Francis Tresham (game designer)
Francis Tresham is a United Kingdom-based board game designer who has been producing board games since the early 1970s.
 Tresham founded and ran games company Hartland Trefoil (founded 1971), a company well known for its "Civilization" board game, until its sale to MicroProse in 1997.
 His "1829" game was the first of the "18xx" board game series and some of his board games have inspired Sid Meier computer games such as "Railroad Tycoon". List of word board games
Word board games are those games played on a board as players of the game attempt to construct words that use a scoring system.
 The player with the highest score wins the game.
 Many if not most board games are also available as software programs and online.
 Online word board games can be organized so that the player is playing against other people or the game can be played against an automated program acting as an artificial intelligence.
 Players of some word board games organize themselves into associations, clubs, and tournaments. Robert Charles Bell
Robert Charles Bell (1917–2002) was the author of several books on board games, most importantly "Board and Table Games 1 & 2" (reprinted as "Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations").
 This work won the Premier Award of the Doctors' Hobbies Exhibition, London.
 He was instrumental in popularizing traditional games, and is acknowledged as one of 11 "principal sources" in David Parlett's "The Oxford History of Board Games". Glossary of board games
This page explains commonly used terms in board games in alphabetical order.
 For a list of board games, see List of board games.
 For terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess.
 For terms related to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems.