Expert Game Inventor, will be at Play 2026
Andrea Angiolino is a journalist and game designer. He has created games for radio and television, magazines, advertising, and the internet. He has designed numerous board games, translated into around fifteen languages, including the Wings of Glory series (with Pier Giorgio Paglia, Ares Games/BlackKnight), Fantozzi batti lei and L’allenatore nel pallone (Ravensburger), Storie a bivi (Ludic), Paradiso (with Andrea Mainini, Top Hats), and Safari Golo (Oliphante 2).
Among his role-playing games are I Cavalieri del Tempio (with Boschi, Carocci, Casa, Giuliano, E.Elle, 1991) and Orlando Furioso (Raven), originally published by the Municipality of Rome in 1993 to promote its use in schools and libraries.
He has written around forty books, including Dizionario dei Giochi (with Beniamino Sidoti, Unicopli), Elogio del gioco(Fefè), Scrivere libri-gioco and Un secolo di giochi (Carocci), as well as the gamebooks In cerca di fortuna (Plesio), In cerca di Angelica (Dedalo/Vincent Books), and Avventure al campo (with Pier Giorgio Paglia, Parapiglia). He also recovered and edited the first branching comic gamebook, Leslie’s Life (by Charles Platt, Homo Scrivens).
He tells stories about games and toys on Wikiradio, broadcast on Rai Radio 3. He produces documentaries about games for RAI and Lucca Comics & Games. He writes entries on games and comics for the Italian Encyclopedia Institute (Treccani). He teaches game design and Game Culture at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
In 1999, he was appointed “Expert Game Inventor” by the Italian Ministry of Public Education. He received the Best of Show Career Award at Lucca Games 2004, the “Personality of the Year” award in 2007, and the Gradara Ludens Award in 2022.
Photo by Stefano Moscardini
