Fabiano Alves Onça

Fabiano Alves Onça was born in São Paulo, is married and since he was a boy, a big games fan. It was this passion that made this journalist, graduated from University of São Paulo, create at 20 his first board game. From then on, games have more and more appeared in his life, in several ways. As a journalist, Fabiano was responsible for the creation of the game channel at site Terra, and later of the extinct Super 11, where he helped to create one of the first and most popular game servers in Brazil. Presently he is a columnist (for games, of course!) at "Playboy" magazine since 2006, as well as in other publications of Abril publishing house. As a game creator, he has published several titles in the Brazilian market (Malhação 1, Malhação 2, Marvel Heroes, Bob Esponja e o Sanduíche Maluco, Mickey no Zôo, etc...), but the great leap happened in 2004, when he became the first (and up to now, the only) Brazilian to win, with the game Waka-Waka Island, the 23rd edition of the renowned international tourney of board games promoted by the Paris game libraries. In 2008, that game was published in Germany with the title Vineta. In the academic field, he obtained his master's degree from University of São Paulo in 2007. His paper was about the MMORPGs universe and our conceptions on what is to play. In 2005 he was honored with the publication of an article by FILE.

(Source: author via FILE website)

Fabiano Alves Onça was born in São Paulo, is married and holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism from São Paulo University. Since a child he has been fan of games, and it was this interest that prompted him to create his first board game at the age of 20. Since then, games have made more and more of an appearance in his life in a number of ways. As a journalist, Fabiano was responsible for the creation of the game channel at the site Terra.com.br, and subsequently of the late Super 11, where he helped create one of the first and most popular game servers in Brazil. Presently he is a columnist (for games, clearly) at Playboy magazine since 2006, as well as at other publications of the Abril publishing house. As a game creator, he has published several titles in Brazil (Malhação 1, Malhação 2, Marvel Heroes, Bob Esponja e o Sanduíche Maluco, Mickey no Zôo, etc.), but the great leap forward took place in 2004 when he became the first (and up to now, the only) Brazilian to win the 23rd edition of the renowned international tournament of board games with the game Waka-Waka Island, promoted by the Paris game libraries. In 2008, the game was published in Germany under the title Vineta. In the academic field, he obtained his Master's degree from São Paulo University in 2007. The topic of his paper concerned the world of MMORPGs and looked into our conceptions on what it means to play games. In 2005 he was honored with the publication of an article by FILE.

(Source: author via FILE website - English translation: Luciana Gattass)