Game Design, Illlustration and Layout for River Horse (Europe) Ltd 

This family friendly 4-player game takes you to Noli, where you and your friends catch fish while avoiding pirate raids, frantically roll dice to win the Regata dei Rioni and bid for the services of local craftsmen in order to build the tallest tower! Tamsin worked on the game design, helping to develop the rules, and Chris drew all the artwork for the project.

This game is based upon the real Noli, which in the Middle Ages was a flourishing maritime town under the benevolent 'patronage' of the powerful Republic of Genoa. Every September, the gozzi of the four districts of Burgu, Ciassa, Màina and Portellu run a regatta in order to determine the fishing rights for the following fishing season.

 Not satisfied with this single form of competition, the merchant families of each district in Noli competed with each other to build tall red-brick towers as a display of their wealth. These edifices to their success give the town of Noli its distinctive look, though no merchant tower can hope to match the proud castle atop Monte Ursino, whose constant vigilance and defensive walls protect Noli from the raids of the Saracens and the assaults of envious neighbouring towns!

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"The game looks beautiful and I like the mix of different mechanics here with bidding and outwitting your foes plus something frantic and wild like dice rolling."

- brennon, OnTableTop Review, 2022