Emiliano Sciarra

Starting from 1999 he wrote several reviews, games and articles for the magazine PowerKaos and the fanzine Un'Altra Cosa, along with a brief "Little Informal Dictionary of Computer Science" (Piccolo Dizionario Informale di Informatica).

[1] Before becoming a professional game designer, he acquired experience as freelance computer programmer and Privacy advisor for several companies in Italy.

In 2002 he published with daVinci Editrice, which was born shortly before, the card game Bang!, created two years earlier.

hit the shelves in July 2002: without any marketing by daVinci, the game entirely sold the first run (2400 copies) in less than three months, instead of the three years estimated by the company.

[4] Apart from games, Emiliano Sciarra is also a skilled musician (he wrote the stage music for the local Live Pieces of Chess,[5] as well as stage music for shows and movies) and he also organizes and is invited to public speeches regarding traditional arts and sciences, videogames and ludology.