The greetings of Andrea Angiolino
31 December 2020: the greetings of Andrea Angiolino, member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Games Archive in the last 4 years.
The greetings of Umberto Rosin
29 December 2020: the greetings of Umberto Rosin, member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Games Archive in the last 4 years.
The greetings of Beniamino Sidoti
29 December 2020: the greetings of Beniamino Sidoti, member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Games Archive in the last 4 years.
The greetings of Erasmo Lesignoli
29 December 2020: the greetings of Erasmo Lesignoli, member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Games Archive in the last 4 years.
Research: “Giampaolo Dossena e la famiglia Sello di Udine”
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”.
Ideas to play – video tutorial
22 December 2020: Paolo Munini presents a little lab to create some simple toys using cheap and easily available materials.
Sblocca la porta Deluxe
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!
Scientific Committee meeting – 2020
2 December 2020: the annual Scientific Committee meeting of the Italian Games Archive has took place online.
Tabletopia Workshop Tutorial
30 November 2020: would you like to create a prototype with Tabletopia? Here you can find a link to Marco Piola Caselli's tutorial (in Italian).
Gambling: if you know it, you avoid it
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.
Game mechanics yesterday, today and tomorrow
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.
Ciao Teodomiro Dal Negro
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!
Game design, the digital prototype
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.
AI, game and psychology
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.
Vabanque su Kickstarter
November 2020: it's finally online the Kickstarter campaign of a new edition of Vabanque, a bluff game at the casino tables. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets!
Learning to reason by playing and calculating
November 2020: Tokalon training for primary and secondary school teachers: 3 lessons by Dario De Toffoli to learn how to think and make decisions, using the Game, Mathematics and the Game of and in Mathematics.
Vite in gioco
November 2020: the International Team made the history of games in Italy, and Marco Donadoni was its soul and body. Inside Vite in gioco, Marco collected the memories of many friends (among which there is a small contribution by Dario De Toffoli).
GdR 3 • Live Action Role-Playing
4 November 2020: on the third and last online meeting about the Role Playing Games, we will talk about different types of LARP (Live Action Role-Playing), explained by who organize them, with a look on educational aspects too.
RPG 2 • School for Masters
28 October 2020: on the second of three online meeting about RPG, we talked about schools for fans of RPG with Laura Cardinale by Il Salotto di Giano and Michele Facco by La Costola dei Barbari.
RPG 1 • A little conversation about RPG
21 October 2020: Italian Games Archive organized a series of three online meeting about Role-Playing Games. In the first we talked about what a RPG is with Mirella Vicini, Anna Benedetto, Beniamino Sidoti and Francesco Nepitello. Recording of the meeting available online.