Coming first
The Council of Selves
An identity operating system. A book about self-leadership, and the selves that shape it.
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Stories you play. Games you live.
Books and games as different doors into one universe. The first door opens with The Council of Selves.
Books
Pages first.
Two books. One in English, coming first; one in Portuguese, for my father. Each gets a date only when it is ready.
In edit · Português
O Soldado e o Silêncio
A father’s war, told at last: Mozambique, 1972–74, from the recorded testimony of a Portuguese soldier. Written in Portuguese.
All booksIn the workshop
Then the table.
Nothing here is for sale yet. Two games in playtesting; each ships when the table says it is ready.
The Pitch
Two technology cards, one catastrophic problem, sixty seconds. Pitch it. The panel scores you in secret, each with a hidden agenda.
In playtesting
Prime
A two-player duel of memories and hidden origins. Build a past from the cards, and bluff about who you really are.
In playtesting
The mind behind the multiverse
One maker.
Many possible worlds.
“What if the ideas that help us understand ourselves could live in more than one medium?”
That question became Multiverse Forge. A book becomes a game. A character becomes a conversation. A question becomes something you can play at the kitchen table.
I’m Nuno Valério: Portuguese, based in Germany, an innovation leader by day and an author, game designer, and creator by conviction.
The conversation continues
Beyond the Forge.
A show on Nuno Valério’s channel Leaders of the Multiverse From Picard to Gandalf: what the characters we love can teach us about leading ourselves. Watch on YouTube ↗ Thinking in the open Two-Body Problem Two minds take on a question neither has cracked. A conversation that leaves something useful behind. Enter Two-Body Problem ↗
The Chair
Good things are taking shape.
The Council of Selves launch. New books. First playtests. Get a seat at the table when something ships, and start today with the free Identity Operating System (IOS) Quick-Start Kit.
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