October 31st, 2024
Casa del Cinema di Trieste
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The special theme day focusing on video games, featuring a session of talks on public funding and supporting policies for the video game industry, and a workshop on How to produce a video game.
Info: forum@sciencefictionfestival.org
10.00 // Case study
Strategies – Promoting and growing the local video game industry on the global stage: a case study of Games Croatia
Launched in April 2024 by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Games Croatia is one of the most recent government-backed programmes providing support for the national video game industry, following a more and more common trend in Europe. A presentation of the project by its Head Benjamin Noah Maričak, and a broader overview of public funding at the European level.
Speaker: Benjamin Noah Maričak, Head of Games Croatia & Head of Video Games and New Technologies, Croatian Audiovisual Centre
10.45 // Case study
Perspectives – Public support and local funding for the video game industry in Italy
A focus on the present and the future of supporting programmes and initiatives for the gaming industry in Italy, and a broader survey of industry sector trends in Europe.
Speaker: Thalita Malagò, General Director, IIDEA – Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association
11.30 // Round table
Supporting programmes and policies for the video game industry: state of affairs and outlook in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto
The event will be held in Italian
A debate between the regional institutions in charge of supporting the audiovisual industry in Veneto and Friuli, and several video game development companies, trying to spot out problems, needs and ideas to develop support instruments for local game developers.
Speakers: Samantha Faccio, Fondo per l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia-Giulia; Floriane Buono, Head of Production, Veneto Film Commission; Valentina Paggiarin, Hive Division; Dario Visaggio, Desarius Games
Ore 10.00-13.00 + 14.30-17.30 // Workshop
Business Plan 101: How to make a bomb-proof business plan for your video game
Developing a video game is not only a technical or artistic matter: it is necessary to carefully plan ahead the production of the project in order to optimize its budget and effectively place it in the market. The workshop will deal with this crucial though often disregarded stage, in order to provide a practical technical background to aspiring professional game developers.
Tutor: Fabio Cristi – Senior Game Producer & Project Manager
Morning session: theory
- Introduction
- Market analysis
- Entries and compilation of a business plan
- Building the audience using online tools (Discord, Reddit)
- Conclusions
Afternoon session: practice
- Production and revision of a business plan
The workshop will take place in Italian.
Registration required; maximum 10 participants..
Fees: € 100,00; partners € 50,00*.
Registration to the workshop includes the SCI-FI PRO pass with access to all the events of the Fantastic Film Forum.
* List of partners: professionals and companies of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; AGICI (Associazione Generali Industrie Cine-Audiovisive Indipendenti) members; EURASF
members.
Tutor: Fabio Cristi
Has been earning his living by working with video games since 1996, first as a journalist and translator, then as a producer for companies such as Milestone, Digital Bros., Midnite, AnotheReality, Mac ‘n’ Cheese and many more. He has been teacher in Game Production at NABA in Milan and Event Horizon School.
