6th ISOP bracelet for Dario De Toffoli
22 May 2024: Dario wins the Italian Omaha 8-Max Hi-Lo Championship, earning his 6th bracelet at ISOP Nova Gorica! Here his chronicles from the blue tables.
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Nomination for Le Chemin de la Maison
May 2024: the jury of ÉducaFLIP, the French brand that identifies games with significant educational potential for children, nominated Le Chemin de la Maison by our Leo Colovini as one of the 10 finalist games!
Giampaolo Dossena Prize to Dario De Toffoli
18 May 2024: the Giampaolo Dossena Prize for Game Culture this year was awarded to our Dario De Toffoli, on the occasion of Play, the Modena Game Festival. A great honour for Dario, who considers his close friendship with Dossena one of the best things that has happened to him in life.
Masters in Games – workshop
May 2024: the project dedicated to game design in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia continues, and now gets into full swing with a hands-on workshop. Participants will try their hand at designing a new board game, under the guidance of experts.
Forest Italian edition
May 2024: a new all-Italian edition of Forest by Leo Colovini and Fabio Visintin has been released, distributed in Italy by Dal Negro. A card game for the whole family, set in a forest where fairy-tale characters inhabit...
The notice of competition for Premio Archimede 2025 is online!
25 March 2024: did you design a game and would like to show it to the most important publishers and have it published? The notice of competition for Premio Archimede 2025 is now online, with all the information you need to participate to the biggest Italian contest for unpublished board games! Keep an eye for the latest changes, read the notice carefully!
The future of board games
March 2024: Andrea Storchi, as part of his research on the "future" within a Master's program in Social Forecasting at the University of Trento, proposed to Dario De Toffoli a series of original and completely unexpected questions, which generated a number of interesting reflections.
Mojo Nation interviews Leo Colovini
March 2024: Mojo Nation, the British site celebrating the creativity of games and designers, published a long interview with our Leo Colovini, who explained how his profession as an author began and how some of his best games came to be.
Cartagena Escape Diaries
February 2024: Pretzel Games has released a new version of Leo Colovini's great classic, this time crewed by 6 different animal pirates, to be guided in their escape from Cartagena prison with different game modes! Available in two editions, English and French.
Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix 2024
February 2024: the Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix 2024, which contains more than 100 tournaments bringing together the world's best players in online competition, has begun.
PETAKids award for KuZOOka
January 2024: Leo Colovini received the PETAKids (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) "Heroes to Animals" award for KuZOOka, published by Pegasus, for his important contribution to animal rights education.
La Nuova Venezia talks about “Masters in Games
29 January 2024: La Nuova Venezia published an article by Massimo Tonizzo dedicated to the presentation of the "Masters in Games" class held on Jan. 20 with guest of honor Spartaco Albertarelli.
Le Chemin de la Maison
January 2024: a new cooperative game by Leo Colovini dedicated to young children is coming from SPACE Cow. Starring a very sweet squirrel, which children will have to guide home before sunset!
Clans and Glory
January 2024: Coming soon from HUCH! & Friends a new game by Bubola and Colovini, set in the Scottish Highlands. In the ancient meeting place, clan leaders will try to assemble the strongest group of followers through clever card reading and skillful planning!
Mysterium im Kloster
January 2024: after the success of the first five boxes, the sixth pocket escape room by Leo Colovini is coming to Moses! The setting is the evocative monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel, where a legendary treasure is said to be hidden...
Mirakel Mix
January 2024: Another creation from the Colovini-Mitidieri duo is coming from Zoch! A game in which magic and danger mix, in which passionate apprentices will try to obtain the magical potions needed to get out of a treacherous maze...
Masters in Games
January 2024: studiogiochi organizes, in collaboration with Rete Biblioteche Venezia, a workshop on the secrets of the game designer dedicated to young people. An opportunity to learn more about the multi-faceted world of board games, discover their mechanisms and try to design a prototype under the guidance of experts.
Christmas at Barilla
December 2023: for the end-of-year celebrations, we had some Barilla executives and employees play by involving them in a purely fun team-building activity. The much-appreciated event took place in the prestigious Academia Barilla Gastronomic Library in Parma.
Nomination for Art Gallery
December 2023: Art Gallery, a game by Francesco Frittelli from Premio Archimede and published by Piatnik, distinguished itself at the Zabawka Roku 2023 award, where it received an honorable mention in the Polish Game of the Year competition.
Presentation of the book Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere
December 2023: Dario De Toffoli will talk with author Marino Carpignano at the presentation of the book Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere (The Handbook of Board Games), to be held at the V. Joppi Library in Udine on Dec. 14.