Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2022: first details
8 November 2021: here are the dates and the first information on the next Italian Mental Calculation Championship.
Events
Premio Archimede 2021 – final cut (Eng. sub)
2 November 2021: the final cut video of the Premio Archimede 2021 with voting and announcement of winners, is finally available!
Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2022
12 October 2021: we are pleased to announce that the next Italian Mental Calculation Championship will take place on 9th April 2022 in Rome, at the LUISS University and in collaboration with Kangourou.
OverbooKing by Filippo Landini wins the Premio Archimede 2021
3 October 2021: OverbooKing by Filippo Landini wins the Premio Archimede 2021! The ranking with 17 finalists and the winners of other prizes is online. Provisional video of the announcement is also available, excellent directed by Marco Mion.
Premio Archimede 2021: the jury is at work
29 settembre 2021: il Premio Archimede è alle battute finali! In questi giorni la giuria internazionale sta testando i giochi finalisti. La proclamazione dei vincitori sarà trasmessa con première su YouTube domenica 3 ottobre alle ore 21. Intanto pubblichiamo le prime foto e i primi video.
Premio Archimede 2021: voting and prize giving ceremony
9 September 2021: during the next weeks the final jury will gather to play and vote for the finalist prototypes. Sunday 3 October the Premio Archimede 2021 will finally come to an end with the announcement of the winners.
Premio Archimede 2021: the video of exhibition
15 July 2021: now also available the video of the exhibition with the 110 Long-list prototypes!
Premio Archimede 2021: photo exhibition
7 July 2021: it's now online the exhibition showcasing the 110 games that passed the first selection of Premio Archimede 2021 and that have been admitted entered the Long-list. The competition is heating up!
Premio Archimede 2021: the Long-List
14 June 2021: the magnificent 110… Magna cum laude! After several months of meticulous hard work, the preliminar Jury has selected the 110 games that will move on to the next step of the Archimede Prize 2021. Here they are, strictly in alphabetical order! Soon will be available the (virtual!) exhibition with all the selected games.
We received a shipment full of…
1 April 2021: no, it's not an April Fools' joke, the number of prototypes for the 2020/21 edition of the Premio Archimede are 236! This photo shows what the Premio is, better than any other description.
Premio Archimede 2020 again extended
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.
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.
Archimede 2020: 202 prototypes
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!
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!
Lex Arcana RPG 2020 finalist
8 October 2020: Lex Arcana is a "Gioco di Ruolo dell'Anno 2020" prize (role-playing game prize) finalist. The jury has nominated five finalists between 22 games in competition. This year, a participation record!
Herbert Feuerstein is died
6 October 2020: Herbert Feuerstein, a famous German TV personality, is died. We remember him as president of J.P. Halvah Foundation, created by Alex Randolph (with his cat's name!) to help the up-and-coming game authors. The Foundation was our partner for Premio Archimede, on this page you can see a video with a chat between Randolph and Feuerstein in 1994 in Venice.
Mind Sports Olympiad 2020
24 August 2020: a month of online Mind Sports Olympiad. 90 tournaments. Thousands of participants from over the world. And a lot of Italians are getting into it. Come and discover how it is going!
Premio Archimede 2020 extended
10 April 2020: considering the coronavirus health emergency, we decided to reopen the terms of the competition. The deadline for REGISTERING and sending us the prototypes is extended to the 31st of October, 2020 and the final ceremony is postponed to a future date in 2021, which is yet to be defined.
Musée Suisse du Jeu – Premio Archimede
5 March 2020: also this year the Musée Suisse du Jeu (Suiss Museum of games) organized an exhibition dedicated to the Premio Archimede’s games. The awarded prototypes are shown as well as some games of the previous editions which in the meantime have been published.