How did we came to be publishing a game signed by Paul Czege & Michele Gelli together? It all started in 2005 when Paul Paul Czege (My Life with Master, Nicotine Girls) published a game called Bacchanal. The premise is the same but the game is set in Puteoli instead of Bertinoro. The game is also based on a mechanic requesting a specific set of dice (purple, red, black, brown and golden d8, silver, white, purple d6, a pearly white d4), a tray to put in the middle of the table and a wine glass for each player. During the game the players roll the dice and take and put them in the tray and in each other’s glass.

We of Narrattiva were immediately enticed by this game, by its simplicity and sensuality. The only problem we saw to its broad appeal was the peculiar dice you needed to play the game: it would have been unusual to find people already owning such a set and to enclose the dice with the manual would have lead to scary production costs.

But Michele didn’t allow this problem to stop him, and he started devising a way to replicate the randomness of dice through the cards. The project developed through the years and many playtests to find the right balance in all of the components. In this time we also made some adjustments to the rules, like those to set in advance the duration of the game or those to encourage players to reincorporate in their story parts of other’s fiction, or the rules that explore the characters personality and their relationship with the beloved.

To top all this we put a great effort in creating a game pleasant under every point of view: from the paper quality of the paper quality of the cards to the print of the same to the care for the illustrations which convey the game’s feel and make the most immediate the meaning of each card.