March 2021: the French edition of Merchants of Dunhuang, the successful game by Gabriele Bubola, is coming soon. Published by Mandoo Games, it is set in the ancient Silk Road.
28 January 2021: the new Bridge column edited by the FIGB has generated great interest and, starting from January 30th (Saturday), there will also be the new column "Giochilli", edited by Beniamino Sidoti, with the aim of establishing a dialogue with the most creative among the readers. Don't miss it!
29 December 2020: studiogiochi's management of the Italian Games Archive expires on December 31st, 2020. From the 1st of January 2021, the Archive is the responsibility of the Library Circuit of Udine, our best wishes go to them. It has been four beautiful, intense and fruitful years and we have the audacity to believe that we have contributed to the spread of the gaming culture. It was nice to work together and in harmony with many different souls of the varied and wonderful Gaming Universe: thanks to all those who collaborated with us in various ways. The website archiviodeigiochi.it and the portal archivio.archiviodeigiochi.it will be discontinued shortly, but we will be able to keep them active and available for consultation through our domain studiogiochi.com.
7 December 2020: the annual research of the Italian Games Archive was presented. This year it has been written by Cosimo Cardellicchio and it was dedicated to “Giampaolo Dossena and the family Sello from Udine”.
December 2020: Clementoni released Sblocca la porta Deluxe, a game by Leo Colovini and Francesco Berardi. An escape room for families with 4 different adventures and many puzzles to solve!
1 December 2020: given the numerous requests from authors who have had difficulties in play-testing due to Covid-19, we decided to REOPEN the deadline for SIGNING UP and for sending the prototypes from 1st December 2020 to 28th February 2021.
24 November 2020: Dario De Toffoli was invited by Play Res to be the speaker of the first of four online training meetings for board game facilitators. He will tell us about the mechanisms behind gambling.
25 November 2020: a new online meeting, where we will make a trip down tabletop gaming history, discussing the evolution of game mechanics through the years.
November 2020: it might be the posticipation to 2021, it might even be the forced stay-at-home, but the fact is that the Premio Archimede 2020 has marked an incredible record of participation: we received 202 prototypes, I mean, 202!
11 November 2020: Teodomiro Dal Negro, known as Miro, sadly passed away. With him, we had in the 80s and 90s an intense, fruitful and fun collaboration.
In Lex Arcana we dedicated the character of Emperor Theodomirus to him, who opens the game with his speech to the Senate.
Ciao Miro!
18 November 2020: on next online event dedicated to game designers, we will talk about how to create a prototype with Tabletopia and how to present it effectively to a publisher.
10 November 2020: the meeting about “Artificial Intelligence, games and psychology" has took place online. We talked with Alan Mattiassi about the AI evolution and how its use on games.