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We create simple games that work. Designed to flow without friction and make room for play.
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Build_01_Dirty
A game system for a strategic party game.
Get rid of your cards. Take nothing. Or take everything.
A strategic party game system
Build_01_Dirty is a strategic party game system that turns confidence into a liability.At first, everything feels simple: discard, avoid collecting, control the pace.
Then the rules crack, effects collide, plans collapse.
What you thought was an advantage becomes your trap.
Simple. Brutal. Inevitable.
The idea: chaos in a tie
Build_01_Dirty is not about chaos. It is about confidence — and how easily it turns against players.The system creates a space where players believe they understand what is happening. Then it lets that belief collapse.
Players decide. And they often get it wrong.
Plans last until the next card is played. And it’s usually yours.
Everything seems under control. But it’s only an illusion.
Tension comes from a choice. And there is no right choice.
Who it’s for*
Groups that enjoy tense, interactive party games
Players who like systems that expose their decisions
Tables where losing badly is part of the experience
Anyone who prefers friction over comfort
*If you’re looking for balance, safety, or reassurance, this is not that game.
Four basic rules. The rest is your fault.
Build_01_Dirty is built on four simple rules: easy to learn, hard to rely on.
The highest card takes.
Special effects break the rules.
Win by taking nothing, or by taking everything.
Playing dirty is a rule.
What makes it different
Build_01_Dirty does not guide players toward optimal play.
It makes room instead.
Room for mistakes.
Room for manipulation.
Room for reading others — and misreading yourself.
The system does not absorb responsibility. It returns it to the table.
Part of Montelungo.studio
Build_01_Dirty is designed by Montelungo.studio as part of a broader approach to game design: a fixed system that makes room for the player.
Montelungo.SHOP
SPORCIZIA COLLECTOR deck
Simple rules. Unstable balance. Confidence turns into a trap.
Sporcizia Collector is the first, limited print deck of the Build_01_Dirty system.
A complete, playable deck with development notes and sketches printed directly on the cards.
First and limited print: 50 copies.
A complete, playable deck: 40 cards.
Sketches, development notes, and traces of testing printed directly on the cards.
Rulebook in three languages (EN / IT / FR).
The first print is coming.
the STUDIO
Montelungo.studio Project
Since 2021, Montelungo.studio creates simple games that work.
An independent game design studio, Montelungo.studio works through continuous testing and an iterative process of subtraction, drying rules and mechanics until they flow without friction.
Montelungo.studio games are essential systems that make room for the player.
Making room for play
In the work of Montelungo.studio, games are shaped through subtraction. Rules, constraints, and instructions are progressively reduced until the system stops occupying all the space. The design process stops before closing in on itself, leaving room for use, interpretation, and error.
From that point on, what happens depends on the choices, intentions, and way of playing of those at the table. The protagonist is not the game, but the one who uses it.
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