Marco Alberto Donadoni (born in Milan, 8 November 1951)[1] is an Italian game designer. He designed his first, self-produced wargame, Iliad, in 1977; he then joined the Italian company International Team (IT), that at the time was mainly a jigsaw puzzle producer. IT published Iliad and changed its core business, focusing on the wargame market, with Donadoni being its main game designer.[2] Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Donadoni created a number of games for IT, some of which, like Zargo's Lords and Kroll & Prumni, were very successful and largely contributed to popularize wargaming in Italy and other European countries, such as France.[3][4][5] Angelo Porazzi, designer of Warangel (one of the most popular Italian wargames of recent years) has often cited Donadoni's work as one of his major sources of inspiration.[6][7] Donadoni remained as IT's main game designer until the company went bankrupt in the late 1980s, designing more than a hundred games.[7][8] After that, he collaborated with several other major Italian game companies such as Editrice Piccoli, Editrice Giochi and others.
- ^ Marco Donadoni at Boardgamegeek
- ^ IT - International Team
- ^ Metaforming: a Ludica 2011 Marco Donadoni presenta il suo nuovo libro
- ^ Ludica Festival del Gioco Forum Milano 21-23 novembre
- ^ Zargo's Lords at Boardgamegeek
- ^ Ludica 2008 photo report, including a section about Porazzi meeting "master" Donadoni
- ^ a b Interview with Marco Donadoni
- ^ Dadi, carte e fantasia, "Il Corriere della Sera" 22 September 2000