Gianluca Santopietro

The "Dear Boss" letter was received by the Central News Agency in London on Thursday, September 27th, 1888; it was forwarded to Scotland Yard two days later. It was written in red and contained many macabre details that could not be ignored. It was signed...

Welcome to Whitechapel. Welcome to Jack the Ripper’s streets. Letters from Whitechapel™ is a game of deduction and bluffing set in London, 1888, the time of Jack the Ripper. It’s a game for two to six players, age 13 or older, for an average time of...

October 1888: During the construction of the Metropolitan Police headquarters near Whitehall, which would later be known as Scotland Yard, the remains of a body were found. Was this the work of Jack the Ripper? Or is there another murderer roaming the...

The Shadow Planet is a retro sci-fi game, based on the Italian graphic novel by the Blasteroid Bros, and inspired by movie classics, such as Forbidden Planet, The Thing, or Alien. Designed by Gianluca and Giacomo Santopietro, authors of Letters from...

A girl, in a moonless night, is seen flying over rooftops; a spectral man disappears through a brick wall; a shapeless figure walks across the misty waters of a lake. Is this reality... or illusion? Superhumans or alien entities? Freaks of nature or...

Penny dreadfuls were short illustrated periodicals, very popular in the United Kingdom in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were very cheap booklets, costing just one copper penny and offering short stories with vivid and popular themes...