A busy man!

Alessio is a guest of UK Games Expo and will be maning a demo table in the red zone. He is also offering play test sessions, giving a talk, running a tournament and signing a book. Catch him if you can!

UK Games Expo Shuuro Tournament

Format
Mini-Shuuro at 250 points, with 10 minutes per player. Winner stays, loser is out. The player that at the end of the evening has won most simultaneous games wins a voucher for £20 to spend on games at Expo on Sunday.

The GM
Alessio will run this tournament

Start and end times
The tournament will run saturday evening 6pm till late.

Location
The Strathallan Hotel gaming room.

Registration
You MUST have an UK Games Expo entry ticket for Saturday. YOu can e-mail in advance to express interest or just turn up on the day and find Alessio.

Find out more about Shuuro http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38764/shuuro .

UK Games Expo Turanga Play Test

Fancy helping play test Turanga, the 4-players variant of Suuro. Alessio needs three volunteers.

... their names might end up in the credits for Turanga...

Email Richard to express an interest.

Game Design Workshop

Got a cool idea for a game and want to learn how to make it reality?
Great Fire:London 1666 developer and play tester Jeff Quantril is in conversation with Alessio Cavatore Shuuro designer and one of the developers of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40,000 and the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. They will discuss:

The key elements when coming up with a new Game
The differences between a Board game and Miniatures Games
The importance of playtesting
What can break a game
Mechanics - what makes games tick

So don’t miss this session and learn all about making your own Game.

Book Signing

Alessio is one of the contributors to "Family Games: The Top 100"

In Family Games: The 100 Best, top game designers and publishers write about the most enjoyable, most cleverly designed titles of the last one hundred years. Their essays cover the spectrum from board games to card games, wargames to miniatures games to role-playing games, including old favorites and little known gems. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have inspired their most popular inventions.