Pierluca Zizzi

Pierluca Zizzi is an Italian board game designer responsible for the creation of critically acclaimed games such as Asgard, Hyperborea, Signorie and Simurgh.

Pierluca Zizzi

Born in 1970 in Turin, Pierluca began his working career as an architect. It's not long however before he realizes that his passion for board games should become his full-time job.[1]

Career

As of 2017, Pierluca has designed 21 published board games:[2]

  • Al Rashid
  • Arcanum
  • Arcanum: The Witch
  • Artè
  • Asgard
  • Caligula
  • Dark Tales
  • Dark Tales: Cinderella
  • Dark Tales: Little Red Riding Hood
  • Dark Tales: Snow White
  • Defence for Agarthi
  • Hall of Fame
  • Hyperborea
  • Hyperborea: Light & Shadow
  • Hyperborea: Promo Set
  • Lamborghini: The Official Race Game
  • Movie Trailer
  • Signorie
  • Simurgh
  • Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord
  • Simurgh: Call of the Dragonlord

Upcoming projects

According to Board Game Geek database, Pierluca Zizzi is currently working on two new projects:

  • 3 Secrets[3]
  • Barbarian: the Invasion[4]

Reception

Although Pierluca Zizzi has designed 21 games, his most popular game remains Hyperborea, published in 2014 by Asmodée Éditions. The game has received positive reviews, and currently hold a score of 7.3 out of 10 on Board Game Geek database. Popular outlets that have reviewed the game are Opinionated Gamers,[5] Nonsensical Gamers,[6] Meepletown,[7] Play Board Games[8] and Dice Tower.[9] Other main games created by Pierluca Zizzi are Lamborghini: The Official Race Game,[10][11] a game based on the official license of Lamborghini sport cars, the strategy game based on worker placement mechanics Signorie[12] and Simurgh, the fantasy game published on kickstarter by Heidelberger Spieleverlag and NSKN Games.[13]

Other projects

Pierluca Zizzi has an interest for esoteric things, and has produced and released his own version of Zener Cards and other divination tools such as Infinity Tarot,[14] Egyptian Oracle Cards, 2012: Tarot of Ascension[15] and Universal Transparent Tarot.

gollark: There are multi-CPU boards, for servers, I guess.
gollark: No. You would probably need 5 boards.
gollark: In that case, probably just 5 GPUs in some system which supports that, a very good CPU, VMs, and GPU passthrough.
gollark: I have no idea what you're referring to, and I don't really want to go watch a video or whatever to find out.
gollark: If you have multiple mainboards you *also* have two separate computers.

References
  1. https://www.comicon.it/pierluca-zizzi/
  2. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/9483/pierluca-zizzi
  3. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218314/3-secrets
  4. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219832/barbarians-invasion
  5. https://opinionatedgamers.com/2015/11/20/hyperborea/
  6. http://www.nonsensicalgamers.com/hyperborea-review/
  7. http://meepletown.com/2015/02/review-hyperborea/
  8. http://www.play-board-games.com/hyperborea-board-game-review/
  9. http://www.dicetower.com/game-video/hyperborea-review-board-game-corner
  10. http://erebus-art.deviantart.com/art/Box-Lamborghini-Official-Game-244191854
  11. http://www.parkproductions.co.uk/boardgametower/lamborghini.htm
  12. http://www.dicetower.com/game-video/signorie-review-jongetsgames
  13. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nskn-ludibooster/simurgh
  14. http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/infinity-tarot/
  15. https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/25235
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