Marco Alberto Donadoni is an Italian game designer. He designed his first, self-produced wargame, Iliad, in 1977; he then joined the Italian company International Team

International Team

International Team was an Italian game company founded in the 1970s and active until the early 1980s. While the company started as a jigsaw puzzle producer, it is mostly remembered as a wargame company, a business that IT approached in 1979, after game designer Marco Donadoni joined in...

 (IT), that at the time was mainly a jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw puzzle

A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces.Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture...

 producer. IT published Iliad and changed its core business

Core business

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, focusing on the wargame market, with Donadoni being its main game designer. Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Donadoni created a number of games for IT, some of which, like Zargo's Lords

Zargo's Lords

Zargo's Lords, released in 1979, was one of the most popular war games released by the Italian company International Team . Designed by Marco Donadoni, the chief game designer at IT, Zargo's Lords was the first fantasy wargame to be produced in Italy, and was well received both in Italy and abroad...

and Kroll & Prumni

Kroll & Prumni

Kroll & Prumni was the first wargame to be released by the Italian company International Team, in 1979. It is a hex map-based, science fiction-themed wargame, designed by Marco Donadoni, IT's chief designer, who also authored such IT best-sellers as Zargo's Lords. After IT went bankrupt in the late...

, were very successful and largely contributed to popularize wargaming in Italy and other European countries, such as France. Angelo Porazzi, designer of Warangel

Warangel

Warangel is a fantasy board wargame created and illustrated by Angelo Porazzi. It has won a number of Italian game awards, and is distributed locally by Hasbro Italy.-History:The first edition was published in Italy in 1996 as a collectible series...

(one of the most popular Italian wargames of recent years) has often cited Donadoni's work as one of his major sources of inspiration. Donadoni remained as IT's main game designer until the company went bankrupt in the late 1980s, designing more than a hundred games. After that, he collaborated with several other major Italian game companies such as Editrice Piccoli, Editrice Giochi and others.

Wargames

• Iliad. International Team, 1979.
• Kroll & Prumni
  Kroll & Prumni
  Kroll & Prumni was the first wargame to be released by the Italian company International Team, in 1979. It is a hex map-based, science fiction-themed wargame, designed by Marco Donadoni, IT's chief designer, who also authored such IT best-sellers as Zargo's Lords. After IT went bankrupt in the late...
  
  . International Team, 1979.
• Odyssey. International Team, 1979.
• Okinawa. International Team, 1979.
• York Town. International Team, 1979.
• Zargo's Lords
  Zargo's Lords
  Zargo's Lords, released in 1979, was one of the most popular war games released by the Italian company International Team . Designed by Marco Donadoni, the chief game designer at IT, Zargo's Lords was the first fantasy wargame to be produced in Italy, and was well received both in Italy and abroad...
  
  . International Team, 1979.
• Waterloo. International Team, 1980.
• Idro. International Team, 1980.
• Jena. International Team, 1980.
• Austerlitz. International Team, 1981.
• East & West. International Team, 1981.
• Wohrom. International Team, 1981.
• Norge. International Team, 1981.
• Rommel. International Team, 1981.
• Sicilia '43 . International Team, 1981.
• Bonaparte. International Team, 1982.
• Zargo's Lords II (expansion set for Zargo's Lords). International Team, 1983.

Role playing games

• with Silvio Cadelo. Legio VII. International Team, 1982.
• with Mauro Moretti. Magikon. International Team, 1983.
• Tablin (expansion set for Legio VII). International Team, 1983..

Boardgames

• 3. Editrice Giochi, 1987.
• Empire. International Team, 1979.
• Grand prix. International Team, 1983.
• Il gioco dell'oste. International Team, 1987.
• Il giro d'Italia. International Team, 1983.
• Jolly roger, International Team, 1979.
• Jonathan. International Team, 1984.
• Mafia. International Team, 1983.
• Magic wood. International Team, 1979.
• Medici. International Team, 1979.
• Mundialito. International Team, 1985.
• Play off. International Team, 1985.
• Ra. International Team, 1979.
• Rally. International Team, 1980.
• Referendum. International Team, 1985.
• Roma. International Team, 1986. Ripubblicato dalla Editrice Giochi.
• Rossi adventures. International Team, 1983.
• Samarcanda. International Team, 1982.
• Single game. International Team, 1987.
• Smoking game. International Team, 1983.
• Superbowl. International Team, 1983.
• Terre des Bètes. International Team, 1984.
• Skizzo. Smemoranda, 1984.
• Tele foot. International Team, 1987
• Thalassa. International Team, 1984
• Trafic. Editrice Piccoli, 1985
• Zodiac memo take. International Team, 1987.
• Referendum. Per il comitato elezione diretta dei sindaci, 1983.
• Squali e pesciolini, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Traffic, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Luna Park,, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Occhi di Gatto, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Taxi, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Treni & C, Editrice Piccoli, 1986.
• Blue Stones. International Team, 1987.
• Landsknecht. International Team, 1987.
• Leonardo. Editrice Giochi, 1989
• Communication. Editrice Giochi 1990.
• Viaggiamo nel corpo umano. Editrice Giochi 1991.
• Nella preistoria. Editrice Giochi 1991.
• In fondo al mare. Editrice Giochi 1991.
• Visual game. Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1992.
• Sandokan. Giochi Preziosi, 1993.
• Monstercrash. Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1992.
• Il gioco di Radio DJ. Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1993.
• Tuchulka. daVinci Editrice, 2005.