lamafia 2008

Sicily, 1943. Main Mafia families in Western Sicily, supported by the Allies who have overthrown Fascism, took back the control of rural areas inside the country.

In lamafia, up to 6 powerful Mafia families struggle to achieve the economical and political power in Sicily and Italy, managing their deals with the Italian-American gangsters and with the South American and Far East drug traffickers. They accumulate their fortunes through the typical ways of organized crime, then re-invest their revenues in money laundering, in order to get some affiliates among the entrepreneurs and politicians. The aim is to increase their prestige inside the organized crime structure, killing their opponents and dealing with the reaction of the State, always adapting their income sources to the evolution of the political context, through the entire 50 years of Italian history depicted by the game.

The game is designed with a system of character/event/action cards using an intricate system of event cards, developed in order to reproduce the connections between organized crime and the main historical events (the so-called unsolved "mysteries of Italy") that have characterized the post-war period in Italy.