Riva Celso

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Riva Celso (* 1974 ) is an Italian independent video game designer of various games such as The Goalkeeper , Universal Boxing Manager , Magic Stones , the Heileen series and Bionic Heart . He is the founder of Winter Wolves and Tycoon Games .

life and career

At the age of 20, Celso began his career as a designer of small games for the Italian market. He took a 7 year hiatus until 2003 when he discovered the shareware distribution model and created the sports management video game Universal Soccer Manager with Blitz Basic .

He then switched to the programming languages C and C ++ and published 10 more games under the Winter Wolves label. He then founded a new company, Tycoon Games , under which he has published 6 games to date: The space war game Supernova 2: Spacewar , the Dating Sim Summer Session , the visual novels Heileen and Bionic Heart , College Romance: Rise Of The Little Brother , and Spirited Heart . For the games Summer Session and Heileen , he used Python with the Ren'Py program .

The stories of The Flower Shop and The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook were written by Ayu Sakata from sakevisual . Celso is currently working on Planet Stronghold 2 , Spirited Heart 2 and a sequel to Loren The Amazon Princess . An otome game called Queen Of Thieves and the RPG Undead Lily are also in production. He is also planning a dating sim with exclusively homosexual love affairs; the Yuri game Summer in Trigue .

Awards

In 2004 his games The Goalkeeper and Universal Boxing Manager were nominated for the top 5 sports games of the year by the online magazine Gametunnel .

Games

  • Universal Soccer Manager (September 2003)
  • Spin Around (January 2004)
  • Ignazio The Frog (February 2004)
  • Universal Boxing Manager (April 2004)
  • Quizland (July 2004)
  • The Goalkeeper (September 2004)
  • Supernova: Galactic Wars (January 2005)
  • Magic Stones (October 2005)
  • Universal Soccer Manager 2 (December 2006)
  • TV Station Manager (April 2007)
  • Supernova 2: Spacewar (May 2008)
  • Summer Session (July 2008)
  • Heileen: Sail Away (October 2008)
  • College Romance: Rise Of The Little Brother (April 2009)
  • Spirited Heart (April 2009)
  • Bionic Heart (July 2009)
  • Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate (December 2009)
  • The Flower Shop (February 2010)
  • Vera Blanc: Full Moon (July 2010)
  • Vera Blanc: Ghost In The Castle (September 2010)
  • Love & Order (February 2011) with Christine Love, author of Digital: A Love Story
  • Planet Stronghold (February 2011)
  • Always Remember Me (April 2011) with a theme song by Cristina Vee
  • Spirited Heart Girl's Love (September 2011)
  • The Flower Shop: Winter in Fairbrook (December 2011)
  • Loren The Amazon Princess (April 2012)
  • Loren The Amazon Princess: The Castle Of N'mar (August 2012)
  • Heileen 3: New Horizons (December 2012)
  • Heileen 3: Sea Maidens (January 2013)
  • Bionic Heart 2 (April 2013)
  • Nicole (October 2013)
  • Roommates (March 2014)
  • Seasons of the Wolf (October 2014)
  • Bad Blood (April 2015)
  • Dead But Alive! Southern England (September 2015)
  • Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense (January 2016)
  • C14 Dating (March 2016)
  • Heirs And Graces (June 2016)
  • Queen of Thieves (September 2016)
  • Never Forget Me (November 2016)
  • Amber's Magic Shop (May 2017)
  • Cursed Lands (April 2018)
  • Love Bites (May 2018)
  • Corona Borealis (April 2019)
  • Planet Stronghold 2 (March 2020)
  • Volleyball Heaven (July 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2004 Sports Games of the Year Awards ( Memento from October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Celso, Riva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian game developer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974