Andrea Angiolino

Journalist

He is a professional journalist. 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.

Game designer

Among his last boardgames, Dragon Ball – Alla ricerca delle sette sfere (Nexus Editrice 1998), Ulysses (Winning Moves 2001), Wings of War (later Wings of Glory), Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles (Ares Games 2018), Isla Dorada (FunForge 2010, English edition by Fantasy Flight Games), and the card game Obscura Tempora (Rose & Poison 2005). His role-playing games include Orlando Furioso, written with Gianluca Meluzzi, published by the City Council of Rome to be distributed in schools and public libraries. He created games for radio and TV, magazines, training, advertising, festivals and shows.

Author

He wrote more than 20 books, some translated into several languages. 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 was the first Italian author to publish a choose-your-own-story gamebook, In Cerca di fortuna and the first to publish one for kids who can not read: Il Mischiastorie – Osvaldo e i cacciatori.

He published fantasy short stories and an encyclopaedia of the fantastic world of Warhammer.^[1]

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.