Gustavo 'Scary' Tontini

Founder, Lead Designer

I'm a brazilian materials scientist currently living in the UK. I've always been a huge nerd, fan of all kinds of games, from tabletop to digital (good at none). Also, since very young I always enjoyed creating my own stuff, like houserules for board games, scenarios and systems for tabletop RPGs, building areas for MUDs, etc.

I've effectively started designing board games in 2008 during my university times back in Brazil. It was an overly complicated tactical board game with miniatures that was eventually simplified and came up to be Paragon Tactics Arena in 2014. Despite finishing that game and presenting/testing in a few events across the state, I never took the next step to try and publish it.

After that, I continued just playing around without seriously pursuing any game project until 2020, when I played the first iteration of Memory Kings with Letícia, and got excited with the whole thing again. It is still just a hobby though, with the main goal of creating something that brings joy to people and sharing it.