by Ludologo

17 Novembre 2011

Italiani alla fiera di Essen

Breve articolo in cui ho raccolto le impressioni di alcuni editori ed autori presenti alla Fiera di Essen.

Purtroppo non sono riuscito a raccogliere un feedback da tutti, ma mi sembrava interessante riportare almeno queste impressioni.I remember the first time I was in Essen, many years ago. The fair was really smaller than now and not so many foreign publishers (foreign means non German) were there. Italians, both publishers and gamers, were isolated. StudioGiochi, with Leo Colovini, dV Giochi (actually DaVinci) and few others. I remember Emanuele Ornella first debut with Fantasy Pub and the first time for Angelo Porazzi, with me in an epic travel across the alpes with the caravan full of Angelo boxes. Mik Svellov Brett’n Board was one of the fews lights for english speaking in the darkness of great number of German publishing available only in German and, It seems impossible nowdays, BGG was just moving the first steps.

It seems I’m talking of other ages but it was just less then 10 years ago …

by Ludologo

14 Novembre 2011

L’Arte dell’Inventare Giochi: Niek Neuwahl

Questa è la 14 intervista per la serie l’Arte del Gioco: Interviste agli autori di giochi, che sto realizzando per il sito OpinionatedGamers.com

Presto le interviste, in Italiano, saranno pubblicate su questo sito, a partire dalla prima fatta a Leo Colovini.Here I’m with the 14th interview. This time I gone to ask about the art of design to Nicolaas (Niek) Neuwahl. Niek is a long time designer with an huge amount of games produced, mainly abstract games. Niek has also a long militancy in the SAZ, the greatest world wide association for games designers, now with the role of management questions about Games Advertising.

Of course, since his main production is in abstract games, Niek works most on the mechanics but discovered how peoples approach differently if a game has also a “theme”.

by Ludologo

10 Novembre 2011

L’Arte dell’inventare giochi: Sebastien Pauchon

Questa è la 13 intervista per la serie l’Arte dell’Inventare Giochi: Interviste agli autori di giochi, che sto realizzando per il sito OpinionatedGamers.com

Presto le interviste, in Italiano, saranno pubblicate su questo sito, a partire dalla prima fatta a Leo Colovini.Sebastièn Pauchon is a Swiss designer and, at least geographically, collocated close to both German and French. Talking about his games Sebastièn says “I guess they are more “German games” than anything else, maybe because as stated I start with the mechanics…” and than again “Nah, I honestly think my games are German all the way“. Actually the only French reminescence is in the look and in the artworks.

So, Sebastièn looks like a real German designer with strong interest in the developing of the mechanics.

by Ludologo

16 Ottobre 2011

L’Arte dell’inventare giochi: Fridemann Friese

Questa è la 12 intervista per la serie l’Arte dell’inventare Giochi: Interviste agli autori di giochi, che sto realizzando per il sito OpinionatedGamers.com

Presto le interviste, in Italiano, saranno pubblicate su questo sito, a partire dalla prima fatta a Leo Colovini.In this interview I’m going to ask about art and design to Friedemann Friese, a designer that absolutely is trying to characterize his games with a common style and mark. Green and F are not the only things common in his designs. Friedemann told me “One of my main parts in designing games was, that I really enjoyed the ameritrash games for their themes and the euros for their mechanics and I always tried to combine this, to take the best of two worlds.” and also, “Art is coming from a strong energy inside of you and has do be done, because it has to be done, for no other reason.“. Friedeman Friese is another designer that work in the great creative space that lies between “Ameritrash” and “Euros”, trying to cathc the best from both. Here my interview:
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by Ludologo

13 Ottobre 2011

The Art of Design: interviews to game designers #11 – Ignacy Trzewiczek

Here my new post for The Art of Design series. This time I’m gone to interview Ignacy Trzewiczek. He is not yet a long-time designer like others I have interviewed before but he is one of the rapresentative of the new schools are coming from east europe and also a designer with a strong personal style and some innovative ideas. “It takes few months of gathering pictures, ideas and emotions.” told me Ignacy talking about the design process and also “In a future, I’d love to be known as this guy who makes games so strong and deep connected with theme.” … great! Here the interview:

by Ludologo

18 Febbraio 2011

The Art of Design: Interview to game designers #2 – Andrea Angiolino

Here is another interview about The Art of Design. Today I’m going to interview Andrea Angiolino, another of Italy’s big names. Looking on BGG, he has more than 40 games published starting from 1985 but, of course, Andrea is best known for his Wings of War series.

Angiolino told us “I love simplicity, clean games with steamlined mechanics that at the same time are very consistent with setting and chrome” — something we can call “The Italian Style”, that is between German and American games. Inside the “school” Andrea aims to use mechanics with “hidden complexity“. Let’s go!