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"Are you tired of the same old board games?
Do you want to spend a different and amusing evening with your best friends?
Find out the new board games by Alex Games!"
NOW, give me 3 minutes and I will reveal you where to find the most exclusive board games to spend pleasant evenings together with your best friends....
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You will find the boxes of Wizards of Soccer Gold
Edition and the Expansion Pack Teams
and Spells at the Area Autoproduzione (Angelo Porazzi Games)
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PLAY (Modena - Italy): 27-28 September 2008
Int. Spieltage (Essen - Germany), Hall 9 Booth 30: 23-26 October 2008
LuccaGames (Lucca - Italy): 30/10 – 2/11 2008
Ludica (Milano - Italy): 21-23 November 2008
At PLAY (Modena) and Ludica (Milano) you can also find all the other games by alex-games available in English and in Italian in pdf format on CD |
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Wizards of Soccer
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Hi! I am Alessandro Dolcetta! Since I was a child I’ve always had a great passion for board games and, in spite of the coming of the computers and videogames, I never abandoned the old good board games. Now, my board games’ collection has more than 50 games.
I think that no videogame, even if online, could give us the same emotions and the same pleasant moments as a good board game, such as: watching face to face your friends; making jokes and making a fool of the unlucky players; giving self-seeking “friendly” advice to the other players; helping bad luck players and joining forces against the favoured one... |
To say nothing of the emotion to move the pawns on the board, to grip the cards in your hands, to roll the dice one by one, making the voodoo and praying, to get at least one 6…
Then, at the high school, thanks to some friends of mine, I discovered role playing and that was a real love at first sight: we met every weekend and role played for hours in fantasy worlds and in spy stories. We lived in a small Italian town and role playing, at that time, was not widespread like now; so, when we played in each other home, we felt ourselves like a small “secret society” engaged in a special mission.
After some years as a player, thanks to my party which made me a present of a fantasy role game (Kata Kumbas by the unforgettable Agostino Carocci), I discovered the pleasure to create new adventures. Since then, I have enjoyed myself a lot for many years mastering with different rules systems (D&D, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu).
Playing with board and role games, I’ve often thought that it should have been a great idea to have a board game on a certain subject or another one; but I couldn’t find such games in the shops.
And so, I started developing board games by myself.
Now, thanks to the computers and thanks to a comics drawing course that I attended some years ago, I have become able to add illustrations to my board games and I have decided to share with all of you this passion of mine, publishing in this Internet site the board games I have created up to now.
I invented my first board game, People Manager, in 2004. But the great turning point happened in December 2005, at Giochi Sforzeschi in Milan, where I met Angelo Porazzi that, from then on, he has been my Great Master in the games world, suggesting me the way of self-production (Autoproduzione).
Since then, together with Area Autoproduzione group (Angelo Porazzi, Marco 'Iz' Valtriani, Luca Bellini, ecc.), I have been present in most of the Italian board game exhibitions (ModCon in Modena, Ludica Mente in Mantova, Parma Fantasy) distributing my games in pdf format also on CD.
About Area Autoproduzione group I appreciate a lot the team spirit between the authors, that gives me the feeling to be part of a great company of friends spread out in all Italy, kept joint by the same great passion: board games.
In August 2008, thanks to the contacts given to me by Angelo Porazzi, thanks to the technical help of Marco Valtriani, and thanks to the fundamental contribution of my friend Giorgio Viappiani, I have finally realized my greatest dream: self-producing my first board game in a box.
And so arose Wizards of Soccer - Gold Edition.
Alex Games’ board games are e-games
What is an e-game?
An e-game (electronic game) is a board game published only in an electronic format, that is to say it is group of files to be bought, downloaded and printed with one’s own home computer.
Which format of files an e-game is made of?
The kind of files used by Alex Games are the Pdf ones.
Pdf is the file format readable through Acrobat Reader on all the main platforms: Windows, MacOs, MacOsX, Linux. Usually, Acrobat Reader is already installed on every kind of computer (Mac or Pc) when it is bought; but in case you have not already installed Acrobat Reader, you can easily download and install it for free through the following link.
Why buying an e-game instead of a board game in a box?
Alex Games’ board games are only published in a digital format.
An e-game offers a set of advantages not available for the board games sold in the shops:
· Printing and cutting out all the elements of the game, you have the feeling to create by yourself a board game
· You can download the game from home sitting on your preferred armchair
· You save a lot of money: a board game in the shops is sold between 20 € and 50 € or more; an e-game costs less than half
· You save a lot of space: a board game usually is contained in an over-sized box where half of the internal space is empty; an e-game can be kept in an A4-sized envelope and this means it takes up the space of a magazine. A lot of e-games can be all kept in a shirt box or in a ring binder
· If you loose some cards or some pawns, you can easily re-print them
Is it possible to print an e-game with the home inkjet printer?
The e-games graphics has been designed to have an excellent colour balance on inkjet printing.
How much does it cost to print an e-game with the home inkjet printer?
A card game like Wizards of Soccer or Condominium costs around 1/8 of the cartridge, that is to say a little bit more than 3 Euro; a game with more material like The Rush-Hour costs 1/4 of the cartridge, that is to say a little bit more than 6 Euro; a game with a lot of material like People Manager costs around 8 Euro.
Note: The number of pages specified for each game includes also the rules (5 pages on average), that can also be printed in black and white to save money.
Note: People Manager has a lot of pages but the graphics has been optimized to minimize the cartridge consumption .
Games for Everybody
 
 
The games proposed in this section are thought for children and adults: they have simple rules and the length of time of a game is less than 2 hours.
These games are ideal to make parents and children playing together; are ideal for groups of children and boys (Condominium, The Rule and The Rush-Hour are excellent also for girls!); are ideal for adults that have few time to spend on games, but that don’t want to renounce a pleasant moment of game with their friends .
In the realm of So-Ker, most of the inhabitants have magical powers and their preferred game is Wiz-ball. Wiz-ball is a spell duel where the winner is the team who succeed in getting two times the ball inside the opponent’s goal. Only the 36 spells written on the Magic Book of Sport are allowed in Wiz-ball, and among them, the more dangerous 6 are not always welcome by the game referee.
Each year the 10 wizards guilds coming from the 10 provinces of the realm challenges each other in a great Wiz-ball tournament that lasts many weeks. The prize is a magic cup that produces every kind of wealth for the owning province.
After many years of tournaments, it has been decided to copy the 36 spells from the Magic Book of Sport to some cards, in order to allow all the inhabitants, also the ones not provided with magical powers, to enjoy Wiz-ball.
And so arose:
Wizards of Soccer
Complete card game about soccer and magic
E-game in Pdf format – Author and illustrator: Alessandro Dolcetta.
Choose between the Wizards of the Parties, very strong in attack, or the Wizards of the Beer, very strong in defence, or the Wizards of one of the 8 other provinces!
Cast powerful attacking spells in order to fly, to twist space, to teleport you from side to side on the field, to turn the ball into a fireball or an iceball!
Use astonishing defensive spells like the ball slowing down, the turn opponent to stone, the stonewall or the ghost goalkeeper!
Try to score two goals, but…be careful when using red spells: the referee could send your wizards off!
Number of pages: 12
File format: ZIP archives containing PDF files
Files size: 2,14 MB
Wizards of Soccer is a card game where two teams of wizards challenges each other in a Wiz-ball match: the soccer played with spells.
The players first of all choose their Wizards Team, each one provided with a different score in Attack, Midfiled, Defence, then draw each one 11 Spell cards to be used to do Actions and Shots at Goal.
The winner is the first one who scores the second goal.
Wizards of Soccer, through the spells, simulates all the main situations of a soccer match: dribblings, passes, interceptions, tackles, shots, goal-saves, fouls, corners, penalties, warnings and send-offs .
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GAME MATERIALS:
building instructions
game rules
1 deck with 72 Spell Cards
10 Team Cards
3 Ball Cards
4 Warning Cards e 4 Send-off Cards
Number of players: 2. Possibility to organize tournaments
Age: 6
Length of a single match: 10min-15min
Rules Complexity: 1/5
Strategy: 2/5
Luck: 3/5
Other materials to get besides printing: nothing . |
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How much should a similar card game cost in a shop?
At least € 14,99!
Alex Games’ price is instead € 6,99, but...
...today it’s in SPECIAL OFFER at only € 2,99!
BUY NOW!
Wizards of Soccer becomes Gold!
Thanks to the success had in the Board Games Cons in Italy (ModCon, Ludica Mente Mantova, Parma Fantasy) in the last years, and due to the fact that people prefer to have immediately the game in their hands, Wizards of Soccer soon will be no longer available in the current pdf format, but it will change its design and will be available in the brand new Gold Edition box.
Contents of the box:
72 Spell card split into: 36 Offensive spells, 36 Defensive spells, 8 Team cards, 5 Ball cards, 2 Yellow cards and 4 Red cards, rulesheet.
Game Description:
Wizards of Soccer is a simulation of a Soccer match, played by Wizards, that with their Spell cards try to advance the ball onto the opposite net to score a Goal.
In the box, you will find 8 Team cards, each one with its own score in Attack, Midfield and Defence.
Draw 16 Spell cards and put them covered on the table to create the 4x4 game field.
Put a Ball card in the middle of the field. Create a Deck with the other remaining Spell cards and distribute 11 Spell cards per player to start playing.
The Spells are split into two main categories: Attack and Defence.
The two categories are once again split into:
-Dribbling, Pass, Shot
-Interception, Tackle, Goal-save
The two players play their Card covered and turn it simultaneously. Then, they sum the power number of the Spell played together with the right score on the Team card. If the Offensive team beats the Defence, he moves the Ball towards the opponent's net taking the Spell card from the new field square occupied and restoring the field with a new Spell card from the deck.
If the Defensive team wins the Spell contest, he steals the Ball, discards up to 2 Spell cards from the hand and refills the hand until 11.
Depending on the position on the field you match different combos that may be a dribbling, a shot, an interception, a foul, a penalty, a yellow card, a corner or...a goal!
First who score two Goals wins, or you can play by time.
There are also simplified rules for children: the Spell contest is always won by the player who played the higher Spell regardless of the scores on the Team card.
The basic game costs 10 euros.
The Expansion Pack Teams and Spells, with a cost of 2 euros, offers a lot of new Teams and some special Spells, with particular effects, designed for the players who already know well the basic game.
Wizards of Soccer – Gold Edition
 
Available at Essen 2008, at the Angelo Porazzi Games stand, Hall 9 Booth 30.
“Area Autoproduzione” coordinated by Angelo Porazzi.
Logo taken from www.warangel.it, the site of Angelo Porazzi inventor and coordinator of the Area Autoproduzione, the space dedicated to the new board game designers who chooses to produce their games by themselves
“Are you stressed by traffic? Do you waste hours and hours every week in traffic jams to go to your office or to school?
Laugh it off with THE RUSH-HOUR!”
The Rush-Hour
Urban obstacle race in the traffic at rush-hour
E-game in Pdf format – Author and illustrator: Alessandro Dolcetta.
Enjoy yourself blocking up other players’ way with queues, red lights and other typical obstacles of the rush-hour traffic!
Use reckless manoeuvres like overtaking on the sidewalk or crazy boost to dodge the obstacles on your way!
Come first to your office, but…be careful not to have your driving licence withdrawn!
Number of pages: 24
File format: ZIP archives containing PDF files
Files size: 3,55 MB The Rush-Hour is an hurdle-race game set in a heavy traffic metropolis.
The players start from their “home” square and they must reach their “Factory” square covering the chosen route in the lowest possible time.
Each player will try to: slow down the opponents using Obstacle Cards, and avoid the obstacles on his way changing route or also using Manoeuvre Cards.
Be careful: an excessive use of Manoeuvre Cards can make you loose driving licence’s points !
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GAME MATERIALS:
building instructions
game rules
1 town map (split into 6 quadrants to be put together)
6 Driving Licence Clocks
6 Car Marks
1 deck with 103 Obstacle Cards
1 deck with 60 Manoeuvre Cards
32 Tickets divided into 6 categories
Number of players: from 2 to 6
Age: 10
Length of a game: 1h-1,5h
Rules Complexity: 2/5
Strategy: 2/5
Luck: 3/5
Other materials to get besides printing: 1 dice (6-faced) . |
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How much should a similar card game cost in a shop?
At least € 16,99!
Alex Games’ price is instead € 7,99, but...
...today it’s in SPECIAL OFFER at only € 4,99!
BUY NOW!
“Do you like reality-shows? Are you and expert of VIPs and gossip? Do you know everything about soccer, sport or politics?
Challenge your friends and enjoy yourself creating the Condominium of the VIPs with CONDOMINIUM!”
Condominium
Card game set in the “VIPs Condominium”
E-game in Pdf format – Author: Alessandro Dolcetta – Illustrations: Alessandro Dolcetta and Claudia Iemmi.
Build good neighbours relationships between the VIPs in your Condo!
Avoid to put aside two VIPs that do not stand each other!
Pass to your opponents the most quarrelsome VIPs!
Use with caution the special cards to maximize your score and you will become…the king of the VIPs Condominium!
Number of pages: 12
File format: ZIP archives containing PDF files
Files size: 3,85 MB
In Condominium each player is the owner of an exclusive Condominium and have the task to choose the VIP tenants (Politicians, Football Players, Actors, Singers, etc.) to place in his own Condo in order to maximize the total rent value.
The value of the rent paid by each VIP tenant depends also upon the liking towards the neighbours.
Therefore, it is crucial to match in the right way the VIP cards in order to: put nearby the VIPs that get along well each other; do not put nearby the VIPs that do not stand each other.
Finally, some Special VIPs can create great advantages or a great mess depending where they are played.
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GAME MATERIALS:
building instructions
game rules
1 deck with 72 VIP Cards
1 deck with 12 Action Cards
Number of players: from 2 to 6
Age: 8
Length of a game: 30min
Rules Complexity: 1/5
Strategy: 3/5
Luck: 2/5
Other materials to get besides printing:
pencil and paper to calculate the score . |
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How much should a similar card game cost in a shop?
At least € 14,99!
Alex Games’ price is instead € 6,99, but...
...today it’s in SPECIAL OFFER at only € 2,99!
BUY NOW!
“Do you like logic games? Are you an expert of Brain Training?
Challenge your friends in the first pure logic card game, where the rules change from game to game. In this game there are no rules, but there is only one: THE RULE!”
The Rule
Abstract code-braking card game based on logic and inference
E-game in Pdf format – Author: Alessandro Dolcetta – Illustrations: Alessandro Dolcetta and Claudia Iemmi .
Invent more and more complicated rules to make the game hard!
Invent childish easy rules to mislead the players used to reason too much!
Infer from your cards played and from the ones played by the others, which is the correct solution!
Use mathematics, geometry and colours to invent and infer the rules and you will become…the Guru of The Rule !
Number of pages: 12
File format: ZIP archives containing PDF files
Files size: 370 kB
In The Rule one player invents “The Rule”, according which the cards must be sequenced, and all the other players must infer it on the basis of their own attempts and of the ones of the others. The winner is the first player that succeed in correctly understanding The Rule.
The special cards of The Rule contains mathematical, geometrical and colour elements that allow the players to create thousands of different rules to make every game a new experience .
GAME MATERIALS:
building instructions
game rules
1 deck with 120 The Rule Cards
1 Rule Sheet
Number of players: from 3 to 6
Age: 8
Length of a game: 15-30min
Rules Complexity: 1/5
Strategy: 5/5
Luck: 0/5
Other materials to get besides printing:
pencil and paper to calculate the score
  
How much should a similar card game cost in a shop?
At least € 14,99!
Alex Games’ price is instead € 6,99, but...
...today it’s in SPECIAL OFFER at only € 2,99!
BUY NOW!
Coming soon:
Student’s Life
School simulation game
E-game in Pdf format – Author and illustrator: Alessandro Dolcetta .
Games for Specialists
The games proposed in this section are thought for a more adult target of management fans or for boys and girls that want to “challenge themselves” with more complex games that simulates in a very realistic way the management of something: a consulting company (People Manager), an electoral campaign (…for President!). These games have a more complex set of rules and each game could last also 3 hours.
These games are for the moment available only in Italian language.
Have you questions regarding the rules of the games bought in this site?
Do you want to leave a comment about the games you have just bought in this site?
Have you suggestions or comments?
Please, write to: info@alex-games.com
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