Leo Colovini is an Italian designer of

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born in Venice 1964.Game designer profile from studiogiochi http://www.studiogiochi.com/autori/leo-colovini.html His most popular game is '' Cartagena''. He is one of the few top board game designers who has owned a game store. His life in games was strongly influenced by meeting

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at the age of 12 with whom he worked on several of his games. He has also been part of studiogiochi, an Italian games company, and has also collaborated with

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and has written books on games.

List of Games

Complete list of games that Colovini has created: His games are known for their simplicity and drama as this quote from Board Game Geek illustrates: "'' Carcasonne: The Discovery'' is also the simplest and most vanilla of the ''Carcassonne''s. (Of course, if you know anything about Leo Colovini, you'd expect that.) But, it also the most tense ''Carcassonne''. (And if you know Mr. Colovini, you also knew THAT!)"BoardGameGeek , Gaming Unplugged Since 2000

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Colovini, Leo Board game designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)