Dust has been designed for the boardgame manufacturer DUSTGAMES and presented for the first time during the GAMA SHOW 2007 in Las Vegas.
This game has a special meaning for me, because it meant to work again with a good old friend like Paolo Parente. I met Paolo for the first time in a boardgame warehouse where I used to work when I was a student (that means many years and hair ago). He entered the store with some miniatures painted by him and I was immediately stunned by his incredible talent. As many young gamers I liked to paint my miniatures and I thought to be quite skilled. From the day I met Paolo I didn't touch a brush anymore.
This game has a special meaning for me, because it meant to work again with a good old friend like Paolo Parente. I met Paolo for the first time in a boardgame warehouse where I used to work when I was a student (that means many years and hair ago). He entered the store with some miniatures painted by him and I was immediately stunned by his incredible talent. As many young gamers I liked to paint my miniatures and I thought to be quite skilled. From the day I met Paolo I didn't touch a brush anymore.
When Paolo told me about DUST, it was the end of 2005. I told me about the inspiration he had for a short series of comics, about Koshka, the Schwabenland expedition, the discovery of an alien spacecraft in 1938, the development of new weapons that changed the flow of the WWII history and he said: "Do you think it could be a good subject for a board game? I know people in China that can be involved in the production of the plastic pieces."
As a professional game designer I've worked with him on
several projects like a RPG titled "DRUID" and some other
boardgames like Futurisiko (published in Italy in 1992 and still a bestseller,
with more than 200.000 copies sold so far) and Anno Domini (a medieval strategy game), both published by Editrice Giochi.
I involved Angelo Zucca in the project and we worked on the very first prototype of the game, starting from the core of the games system that is based on the use of a special deck of cards, illustrated with some of the great pictures painted by Paolo for the comics. What we had in mind was a big game, with a lot of plastic pieces, dice and cards.
The game took more than one year to be finished (you can read something about the "backstage"), but the final result is great and the game has been distributed all over the world in different editions and languages, by publishers like Fantasy Flight or Editrice Giochi.
The game took more than one year to be finished (you can read something about the "backstage"), but the final result is great and the game has been distributed all over the world in different editions and languages, by publishers like Fantasy Flight or Editrice Giochi.
