On May 4th, 100 years ago, the game designer Alex Randolph was born. Alex’s brilliant mind gave birth to the 1982 “Spiel des Jahres”-winner Sagaland, Twixt, and many other games. Alex (1922-2004) had a long and intense life, spent living and traveling in many countries of the World, – until he settled in Venice, creating there a “school” of game design which, to this day, includes …
It’s time to get together again to play Wings of Glory: after two years of restrictions due to Covid-19, events have restarted in different countries in Europe. In March, a WW1 Wings of Glory event was held by the Italian gaming club A.L.A. – Associazione Ludica Apuana in Massa (Northern Tuscany, Italy), gathering 18 players, with the presence of Andrea Angiolino, co-author of the game. The …
Download the complete rules of Star Scrappers: Orbital, an engine building, worker placement card game for 1-5 players by Jacob Fryxelius, the designer of Terraforming Mars.
Download the complete rules of Star Scrappers: Cave-In, a highly interactive “discard builder”, in which the cards you already used are just as important as the ones you still have in hand.
The awaited The Thing – The Boardgame, a “hidden role” game inspired by the 1982 cult movie, will start to arrive in the US stores from May 11th, alongside the expansion Norwegian Outpost and three sets of miniatures. In this Designer’s Notes article, the designer Andrea Crespi tells about the game creation together with Giuseppe Cicero. This article was originally published by Game Trade Magazine, issue …
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