Events

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

October 2019: we welcome three new publishers have become Premio Archimede partners, and their editors that will be part of the final jury: CMON (Singapore) with Andrea Chiarvesio, MANDOO (Corea del Sud) with Kevin Kichan Kim, RIO GRANDE (Usa) with Jay Tummelson.

October 2019: studiogiochi could not miss the Mecca of games, the legendary Spiel of Essen, this year biggest than ever!

26 October 2019: Dario De Toffoli wins the ISOP 2019-2020 Omaha Main tournament held in Nova Gorica!

October 2019: already 48 games presented at the Premio Archimede and published... and 10 more are under contract with international publishers: they are coming in stores in the next months. Let's find out which ones...

11 June 2019: did you design a game and would like to show it to the most important publishers and have it published? In the dedicated section you can find all the information you need to participate to Premio Archimede, the biggest Italian contest for unpublished board games!

29 September 2018: JAP (Just Another Pirate game), by Gian Andrea Cappuzzo wins the competition. Second place goes to Feudalink by Marcello Bertocchi, by just one point.

September 2018: schedule for the award ceremony of Premio Archimede 2018.

1 September 2018: during the event IdeaG Nord-est, in Udine, Leo Colovini comunicated the "long-list" with the 81 games that will access the final of Premio Archimede 2018.

June 2018: 158 prototypes at the Premio Archimede 2018, the second biggest edition ever!

6 May 2018: the 2nd Italian Challenge of Mental Calculation, organized by studiogiochi together with Kangourou Italia, took place in Cervia.

May 2017: Also ThunderGryph is among game publishers that are supporting Premio Archimede 2018!

May 2017: Also Pegasus is among game publishers that are supporting Premio Archimede 2018!