{"id":368,"date":"2026-08-10T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawntowngames.com\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:59:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dawntowngames.com\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About us<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the start there\u2019s a round of drinks.In 2015, in Corso Como.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of us were talking about a play-by-chat game set in Celtic Britain, and by the end of that round of drinks there were the foundations of a prototype. Dawn Town Games is the brand of Dice Tower Games S.r.l.s., a company founded in February 2017. We publish few titles, and we publish them when they\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"Tommaso\n
Tommaso Ceglia<\/span><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
\n \"Riccardo\n
Riccardo Corti<\/span><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
\n \"Alfonso\n
Alfonso Bonfanti<\/span><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In between there are six steps.The three of us do them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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01<\/span> The idea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The three of us got together around a table. We set up the company in February 2017, in Milan, and the first game reached the shops in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six years passed between the idea and the first box.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One of the four chefs, from Yatai<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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02<\/span> The prototype<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A game starts from a piece of cut-out card and pawns borrowed from another box. Verrix was designed by Tommaso Ceglia and Riccardo Corti; Yatai also bears Alfonso Bonfanti\u2019s name. Not Sub\u2011Zero: the idea isn\u2019t ours, and we say so because that\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verrix was born from a play-by-chat game among friends.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Lindsay,\n
Lindsay, the mystic, from Verrix<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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03<\/span> The playtests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then we play, for a couple of years per title. It\u2019s not a boast: it\u2019s the average in our line of work. We play, change a rule, play again. And when the rulebook isn\u2019t clear at the table, the rulebook gets rewritten. Several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two years of playtesting for each of the three titles.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n \"The\n
The Walrus, from Sub\u2011Zero<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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04<\/span> The artwork<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The three games don\u2019t look alike, and that\u2019s not an oversight. Verrix is historical, Yatai is manga, Sub\u2011Zero is cartoon: they don\u2019t share a single typeface. But the art direction is always Alfonso Bonfanti\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consistency lies in the publisher, not in a shared visual style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three separate identities, one soul.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Another\n
Another of the four chefs, from Yatai<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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05<\/span> The box<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We keep our boxes small. It\u2019s not just about cost: we\u2019re players before we\u2019re publishers, and we know how much room there is on a bookshelf at home. The space one game takes is space taken from the next, and inside goes only what you need to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between the shop and the person at the table, for now the person at the table wins.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n \"The\n
The Lemming, from Sub\u2011Zero<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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06<\/span> The conflict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All three have a way to interact directly with your opponents: raids in Verrix, awkward customers sent to other players\u2019 queues in Yatai, the Polar Bear on the hunt and captures in Sub\u2011Zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t sand down the edges to make the games look friendlier. It\u2019s what makes a match a real match, and not just a pastime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoever gets up from the table should have a story to tell.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Niamh,\n
Niamh, the warrior, from Verrix<\/span><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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The mean streak is our trademark.<\/blockquote>\n
We\u2019re not the ones saying it. People who have played our games said it.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The three partners<\/h2>\n\n\n
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\n \"Tommaso\n <\/figure>\n
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Tommaso Ceglia<\/h3>\n

Administration, sales, communications<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the public voice of Dawn Town Games \u2014 interviews, shops, distributors \u2014 and also the partner who handles invoices and paperwork. Those drinks in 2015 were his idea, but the seed is much older: at sixteen he organised a treasure hunt for almost four hundred people.<\/p>\n

He repeats one word so often he admits it\u2019s become boring: quality. He uses it as a yardstick, not a slogan \u2014 it\u2019s how he turns down market demands that don\u2019t live up to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you don\u2019t always see, but feel when it\u2019s missing.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n
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\n \"Riccardo\n <\/figure>\n
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Riccardo Corti<\/h3>\n

Design and testing, accounts, warehouse<\/p>\n

With Tommaso he turned that play-by-chat game into a prototype, and in 2017 into a publishing house. He keeps the accounts and the warehouse, sets limits and fixes bugs: he always starts from reality rather than wishful thinking.<\/p>\n

On principle, he never compliments his own games, because the verdict belongs to whoever sits down at the table. Before being a designer and a publisher, he considers himself a player.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single satisfied player is a joy to us.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n
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\n \"Alfonso\n <\/figure>\n
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Alfonso Bonfanti<\/h3>\n

Technical side, production, logistics<\/p>\n

He looks after the part you see least: prototypes, quotes from factories, printing, shipping. He joined the company by invitation and didn\u2019t realise straight away that the job suited him. He is also the art director of all three titles.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the least keen of the three on self-promotion: when he says a game has been tested to exhaustion, he\u2019s simply stating a fact.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlay knowing the game is well tested and well themed.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n <\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<\/div>\n
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And in the end there\u2019s a table.It\u2019s the only thing that matters.<\/em><\/p>\n

The playtests, the boxes, the two years per title serve one purpose only: that whoever sits down at the table has fun! If people get up laughing, we\u2019ve hit the target and the job is done.<\/p>\n See our games<\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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