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Sep 9, 2025·Interview·32:33·23·Watch on YouTube

Inside Detectives Vs Criminals: Meet the Game Designer

Dam Things

Dam Things

Watch “Inside Detectives Vs Criminals: Meet the Game Designer,” a board game interview for Detectives Vs Criminals from Dam Things on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Dam Things on YouTube:

Who’s behind the creation of Detectives Vs Criminals? In this exclusive interview, Luca Maragno — game designer and founder of Dam Things — takes you behind the scenes of the creative process: from the original idea of an innovative hidden movement board game, to the challenges faced and overcome, all the way to how the gameplay evolved over years of development. More than 30 minutes of insights showing how the game — and its expansions — came to life. (The interview is in Italian, but you can select the translated subtitles). Follow the project on Gamefound: 👉 https://gamefound.com/en/projects/dam-things/detectives-vs-criminals 00:00 Interview with Luca Maragno, Game Designer and founder of Dam Things! 01:45 Innovations 03:54 Intriguing aspects 05:00 Storytelling 06:10 Characters 07:41 The Map 09:12 Set up 11:23 The treasure problem 14:00 Playtesting 15:47 Expansions 17:02 Rain&Fog 19:01 Sherlock Holmes 21:04 Dracula 23:09 Why Gamefound? 24:16 Before Board Games 25:36 Passion 27:27 Other published board games 29:37 Future 30:26 The greatest satisfaction 31:29 Thanks #boardgamegeek #boardgame #tabletop #boardgames #boardgamecommunity #boardgameaddict #tabletopgames #DvC #damthings #Gamefound #GiochiDaTavolo #TabletopGames

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Detectives Vs Criminals

Detectives Vs Criminals

2026·Luca Maragno

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Some reviews. Detectives Vs Criminals is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, and 10 other videos.

2 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Detectives Vs Criminals, from BoardGameGeek:

In twentieth-century Europe, the best Criminals of all time have come together to steal some extraordinary treasures such as the Sword of Napoleon, The Ingots of the Orient Express or The Bracelet of Osiris. Only the most shrewd Detectives will be able to arrest them! Choose which character to play, including, for example, the magician Zoltan Kovács, the archaeologist Maia Ioannidis, the former police commissioner Zac Clifford and the zoologist Naira Nandez. Play in the Detective team to give instructions to the Police Officers, find Clues, follow the tracks of the Criminals and try to arrest them. Wanna choose the Criminals instead? Move in the shadow, but mind no to reveal your moves and have your thugs guard your back while you reach the cities where treasures are kept! -description from the designer

Designer

Luca Maragno

Publisher

DAM Things!

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Adventure

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Hidden Movement
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