Ivo Dekoning
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Ivo Dekoning

Ivo Dekoning (Belgium) is a writer of books for adults and children. He also designs games in a wide range, from easy card games and family games to heavy tactical and strategic board games. Lately he is experimenting with adventure games in which you really can feel the atmosphere and emotion. An all encompassing story with many storylines, scenario's and flavour text on cards generate an all over experience of…

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atmosphere. Examples of this are 'The Lost Island of Signor Lambert', 'The disappearance of Juliette Beaufort', 'Shadows over Santa Elena' and 'A Boy from Scotland'. 'The Good Fortunes of Harry Kean' fits also in that category and is expanding into 10 and more scenarios enhanced with a vast Mission Book that results in a different play through everytime. Dekoning is always trying to invent new worlds, stories and new game mechanisms. Theme and play need to be integrated as seemless as possible. With his first entry into the international Hippodice game competition he peaked at no.4. 'Floating bridge' is a tactical board game in which players as a tribe leader try to balance urns with water on the head of their ladies on a treacherous floating bridge above the River Congo. In 2009 Dekoning made his official debut with 'Labor Chaos', a card game in the Nichtlustig series, with comic artist Joscha Sauer creating 76 different illustrations. In 2013 Kosmos released a follow up, 'Nichtlustig. Noch mehr Labor Chaos'. Joscha Sauer designed the illustrations for 80 new cards. Both games can be combined into a new deck of cards, or players can build a deck of favourite cards, even with a self chosen end condition if they like. He invented some 100 new card effects in the meantime. In 2022 Belgian publisher Jumping Turtle Games added his 1-5 player game 'O Dodo' to their World of Draghan series. In 'O Dodo!' players try to save dodos from extinction by hatching as many eggs as they can. Solo you can go a long way to finish the engaging solo campaign. Hippodice Spieleautorenwettbewerb

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