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Rôla


José Carlos Santos, aka Rôla, is a portuguese game designer, playtester, activist, geek.
Designer of Yínzi, from Spielworxx and the upcoming What's Your Game game Imperial Century.

With his friend Luís Costa he seeks to create games that from an appealing and almost always historical theme lead players to fluid game experiences with difficult decisions, thematically incorporated and mechanically embedded.

Play games with friends is nothing less than pursuit happiness. Create games is being happy before that!

Táctica y estrategia

Mi táctica es
mirarte
aprender como sos
quererte como sos


mi táctica es
hablarte
y escucharte
construir con palabras
un puente indestructible


mi táctica es
quedarme en tu recuerdo
no sé cómo ni sé
con qué pretexto
pero quedarme en vos


mi táctica es
ser franco
y saber que sos franca
y que no nos vendamos
simulacros
para que entre los dos
no haya telón
ni abismos


mi estrategia es
en cambio
más profunda y más
simple


mi estrategia es
que un día cualquiera
no sé cómo ni sé
con qué pretexto
por fin me necesites.

Mario Benedetti



Sebagai designer di boardgame

Café  [2020]

During King's D. João V kingdom, Portugal was a major European power. From Brazil, the king ordered Sargent Melo Palheta to travel to the French Guyana to formally establish the Utrecht Treaty of 1713 and to secretly bring coffee seeds to Braz...

6 Castles  [2019]

In the XII century, during the territory reconquest, small kingdoms are formed in the Iberian Peninsula, which will continue to fight among themselves in the following centuries. In the West, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, a new country is born &ndash...