) is a game designer: among his last boardgames Dragon Ball - Alla ricerca delle sette sfere (Nexus Editrice

Nexus Editrice

Founded in 1993, Nexus Editrice was an Italian game publisher.Nexus produced board games, role-playing games, card games, miniature games, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as Fantasy Flight Games,...

 1998), Ulysses (Winning Moves 2001), Wings of War

Wings of War

Wings of War, by Andrea Angiolino and Pier Giorgio Paglia, is a modular boardgame collection published by Nexus Editrice and dedicated to air combat.A new edition is announced by Ares Games as Wings of Glory....

 (Nexus Editrice 2004, now announced as Wings of Glory by Ares Games), Isla Dorada (FunForge 2010, English edition by Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO, Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product in 1997, the company has been doing...

), and the card game Obscura Tempora (Rose & Poison 2005). He wrote several role-playing games:among them Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532...

, written with Gianluca Meluzzi, published by the City Council of Rome to be distributed in schools and public libraries. He also created games for radio and TV, magazines, training, advertising, festivals and shows.

He is a professional journalist specialized in games: he started with a column about role-playing games on the Italian monthly magazine Pergioco in September 1982, together with Gregory Alegi, and then worked for many national newspaper and magazines, radio broadcasts and Internet sites.

He wrote more than 20 books, some of which translated into several languages, and created several game CD-Roms. His main work is a "Games Dictionary" (Dizionario del Gioco, with Beniamino Sidoti, Zanichelli 2010) with more than 6500 entries and nearly 1200 pages.
He has been the first Italian author to publish a choose-your-own-story gamebook, "In Cerca di fortuna" (Ripostes

Ripostes

Ripostes of Ezra Pound is a collection of 25 poems by the American poet Ezra Pound, submitted to Swift and Co. in London in February 1912, and published by them in October that year...

 1987) and the first to publish one for kids who can not read: "Il Mischiastorie - Osvaldo e i cacciatori" (Lapis 2005, illustrated by Valeria De Caterini).

He also published a few fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 short stories and an encyclopaedia of the fantastic world of Warhammer

Warhammer Fantasy (setting)

Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...

, described as if it were real (Hobby & Work, Games Workshop

Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...

 & Nexus Editrice 1996).

He published two manuals about the use in schools and libraries of gamebooks and role-playing games, and he also gives lessons to teachers and librarians about the use of games in general.

In 1999 the Italian Ministry for Public Teaching named him "Expert Game Inventor". In November 2004, he received the first Special Best of Show for Distinguished Achievements from the Lucca Games show. In summer 2008 he has been awarded the Personalità Ludica dell'Anno 2007 (Game Person of the Year 2007) prize.

Main works in English

• Andrea Angiolino, "Super Sharp Pencil & Paper Games", Sterling 1995 (reprinted in 2003 as "Mind Sharpening Logic Games")
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Famous Aces", Fantasy Flight Games 2004
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Watch your back!", Fantasy Flight Games 2005
• Andrea Angiolino, "Obscura Tempora", Rose & Poison 2005.
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Burning Drachens", Fantasy Flight Games 2006
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Dawn of War", Fantasy Flight Games 2007
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Fire from the Sky", Fantasy Flight Games 2009
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War WW2 Miniatures - Deluxe set", Fantasy Flight Games 2009
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War - Flight of the Giants", Fantasy Flight Games 2009
• Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Wings of War Miniatures - Revised Deluxe set", Fantasy Flight Games 2010
• Andrea Angiolino, "Earthquakes how and why", Giunti 2010
• Bruno Faidutti
  Bruno Faidutti
  Bruno Faidutti is an historian and sociologist, living in France, who is best known as an author of board games. His best known games include Knightmare Chess , Mystery of the Abbey and Citadels . He is also involved in the boardgaming community with his "Ideal Games Library" website and...
  
  , Alan R. Moon
  Alan R. Moon
  Alan R. Moon is an author of board games, born in Southampton, England, and currently living in the United States. Despite his nationality, he is generally considered to be one of the foremost designers of German-style board games. Many of his games can be seen as board game variations on the...
  
  , Andrea Angiolino & Pier Giorgio Paglia, "Isla Dorada", Fantasy Flight Games 2010

External links

• Personal site