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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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.
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Archimede 2025 is now online, with all the information you need to participate to the biggest Italian contest for unpublished board games!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.
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.
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.
The Festival in Bratislava
1st December 2023: personalized trophy for De Toffoli in Bratislava for his victory in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament (5 poker variants that alternate continuously at the table).
Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere (The handbook of board games)
November 2023: Marino Carpignano published the book Il manuale dei giochi di tavoliere - storie, regole, varianti (the handbook of board games - stories, rules, variants), with a preface by Dario De Toffoli.
Premio Archimede 2023: the photos
22 September 2023: photos from the event are finally online, over two hundred images documenting this fantastic edition, from the jury at work to the awards ceremony! Press review also published.
Rex Cracoviae by Cielo d’Oro wins the Premio Archimede 2023
16 September 2023: Rex Cracoviae by Cielo d'Oro wins the Premio Archimede 2023! Second place for Garden Time by Filippo Landini, winner of the previous edition, and third the game Wunderkammer by Andrea and Lorenzo Martini and Alessandro Zappi. In the coming days we will publish all the photos of the event.
Premio Archimede 2023: finalist prototypes photo exhibition
September 2023: the video of Premio Archimede 2023 finalist prototypes photo exhibition is online! They are the best twenty-four board games selected among the 238 participating prototypes, that will be presented to the international jury for the final evaluation.
XXVII Mind Sports Olympiad, a great edition!
29 August 2023: De Toffoli wins the Senior Pentamind for the 7th time, Zaccariotto finally participates, Italy is second in the medal table, and there's even a hug from Demis Hassabis!
Premio Archimede: selection phase completed
14 August 2023: the selection phase of Premio Archimede has been completed! Between the 238 participating prototypes, the preliminary jury selected 24 finalist games: next September they will be tested and evaluated in Venice by the international jury, of more than 20 publishers from the world's leading publishing houses.