Leo Colovini is a designer of German-style board games born in Venice 1964. His most popular game is Cartagena

Cartagena (board game)

Cartagena is a critically acclaimed German-style board game released in 2000, that takes as its theme the legendary 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the dreaded fortress of 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 Alex Randolph

Alex Randolph

Alexander Randolph was a designer of board games. Randolph's game creations include TwixT, Breakthru, Inkognito , Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted Forest ....

 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 Dario De Toffoli

Dario De Toffoli

Dario De Toffoli is an Italian board game designer, gamebook author and elite games player who founded the games company Studiogiochi and established many games events. Born in 1953 Venice, after an early career as Chemist he entered the world of games. Winner of over 60 medals at the Mind Sports...

 and has written books on games.

List of Games

Games that Colovini has created include
His games are known for their simplicity and drama as this quote from Board Game Geek illustrates: "Carcasonne: The Discovery

Carcassonne (board game)

Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English....

is also the simplest and most vanilla of the Carcassonnes. (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!)"

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