Mind Sports Olympiad 2021
12 June 2021: here we are! The provisional program of the 25th Olympiad of Sports of the Mind is online. Dario De Toffoli will participate for the 22nd time!!!
News
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.
When puzzles meet culture and economy
1 April 2021: Enigmistica24 changes its day of release and its periodicity. The next issue will be released on FRIDAY April 16th, initially taking place monthly (May 14th, June 11th, July 9th) and then becoming weekly for the summer (from July 30th).
300 quesiti Kangourou
March 2021: the new collection of logical and mathematical questions proposed in various editions of the Kangourou della Matematica competition-game has been released, selected by Dario Zaccariotto!
Merchants of Dunhuang French edition
March 2021: the French edition of Merchants of Dunhuang, the successful game by Gabriele Bubola, is coming soon. Published by Mandoo Games, it is set in the ancient Silk Road.
Enigmistica24 proposes new columns
28 January 2021: the new Bridge column edited by the FIGB has generated great interest and, starting from January 30th (Saturday), there will also be the new column "Giochilli", edited by Beniamino Sidoti, with the aim of establishing a dialogue with the most creative among the readers. Don't miss it!
Bye bye Logika
January 2021: we imagined, designed and built it and the publisher Sprea published it for 118 issues. Now the adventure is over for us.
It was a nice ride
29 December 2020: studiogiochi's management of the Italian Games Archive expires on December 31st, 2020. From the 1st of January 2021, the Archive is the responsibility of the Library Circuit of Udine, our best wishes go to them. It has been four beautiful, intense and fruitful years and we have the audacity to believe that we have contributed to the spread of the gaming culture. It was nice to work together and in harmony with many different souls of the varied and wonderful Gaming Universe: thanks to all those who collaborated with us in various ways. The website archiviodeigiochi.it and the portal archivio.archiviodeigiochi.it will be discontinued shortly, but we will be able to keep them active and available for consultation through our domain studiogiochi.com.
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.
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.
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.