On the Ides of March (15 March) 44BC, ruler of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate house by a small group of disaffected senators. After a brief period of confusion, three factions began to emerge to fill the vacuum left by Caesar’s death. The Tyrannicides led by Marcus Junius Brutus and assisted by Gaius Cassius Longinus left Rome and...
In 千年丝路II:阿拉伯商人 (Silk Road II: Arab Merchant), players become merchants starting from humble beginnings along the legendary Silk Road. Traveling between distant cities, players trade goods, bargain with Arab merchants, and deal with dangers such as bandits. Through clever trading and careful planning, merchants attempt to build wealth while navigating the...
As a reckless pilot, you must escape from a city occupied by soldiers with nothing but an old, battered airplane and your companion by your side. You’ll be maneuvering above streets and squares, weaving between buildings, hoping for good fortune while trying to keep your damaged plane in one piece. Along the way, you’ll search for landing spots and fuel...
IKI: Akebono introduces a new location to discover in Edo: the bridge of Nihonbashi, which expands the main street and offers players new opportunities. Players can stop at the bridge to meet famous personalities from the Edo era (like Hokusai Katsushika, Sanyo Rai or Tokunai Mogami) and to trade with the ships (built by the players) in the river. The...
Il gioco del contrabbandiere, the Smuggler's Game. The protagonists of this game are the "financiers" (finanza) and smugglers (contrabbandiere) who, especially from the 50s to the 70s have marked the history, economy and culture of the Como and Ticino area in Lombardy, Italy and Switzerland. The Smugglers get 3 pawns, the financier brigadier 3 as well....
The game can be played by 2 to 6 players, aged 9 and up. Its peculiarity consists in putting together the playful component with the knowledge of the famous Italian territory. The game has precise rules that take into account the deterministic component - which rewards the skill of the individual player - and the fatalistic component which makes the game...
Family game used as advertising for Italian airline ALITALIA in the 70s. Trading routes, rights and managing landing fees as well as charter flights. Players roll and move their planes along airports. In the first round players hgave to fly charterflights. The players only land on the airports named on the card. When they land on a airport they could buy...
Il Vecchio is set in the 15th century, when Cosimo de Medici – also called "Il Vecchio" ("the Elder) – and his family ruled over Tuscany and its capital Florence. The players represent the heads of Florentine families trying to rise their families to power. To achieve this, they send out their family members to locations in Tuscany to perform various...
1271 AD. Two caravans race across the Mediterranean and Asia, from Venice to Peking and back, along the route of Marco Polo’s travel as told on his own Book of the Marvels of the World. The first player to be back home wins. The game is diceless: players choose how many cases they move, from 1 to 8, but they can not chose the last number moved by the...