PLAY: The Games Festival

PLAY: The Games Festival is an Italian gaming convention organized by gamers. The 2015 editions got 30,000 attendees.[1] There is a focus on playing, with hundreds of tables and events devoted to gaming.

The Games Festival
GenreGaming
Location(s)Modena
CountryItaly
Inaugurated1982
Attendance10,000 in 2008
Organized byClub TreEmme
Websitehttp://www.play-modena.it/

History

The Italian Gamers Con started in 1982. It moving year after year between Pavia, Padova, Modena, Verona, Roma and so on. After a few years few cities/associations were able to manage such a big event so The Gamers Con found a place in Modena in 2002 with the name of ModCon organized by the local game association Club TreEmme.

From 1999 to 2007 in Modena, ModCon focused on play tournaments with the gamers as main characters. It attracted names like Jervis Jonson, Gary Gygax, Poul Bonner, Andrea Seyfarth, William Attia and Cristophe Boelinger.

From 2008 ModCon moved from Polisportiva Sacca to ModenaFiere and became PLAY: The Games Festival. The first edition was able to attract more than 10,000 visitors with more than 500 tables dedicated to games, more than 40 clubs/associations were involved in the 2008 edition with more than 150 games events including several national championships finals.

The 2019 edition got more than 44.000 visitors with 4 halls dedicated to board games, role-playing.games, miniature games, LARP and more.

PLAY includes Board games, Role-playing games, collectible card games, 3D games, Live games, War-games, Puzzle-Games and Video games. There is a Modelling sector and the biggest Games Hall in Italy.

Some new games are yo-kai watch, pokemon sun and pokemon moon.

Editions
EditionNameLocationDateGuestsNr. Visitors
1Play 2008Modena Fiere27-28 September 2008Andreas Seyfarth, Karen Seyfarth, Christophe Boelinger, Riccardo Crosa, Ennio Peres, Riccardo Albini4.400
2Play 2010Modena Fiere13-14 March 2010Reiner Knizia, Friedemann Friese, Francesco Moser17.600
3Play 2011Modena Fiere26-27 March 2011Cephas Howard, Luca Giuliano19.700
4Play 2012Modena Fiere24-25 March 2012Martin Wallace, Andrew Sheerin, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Matthijs Holter22.200
5Play 2013Modena Fiere6-7 April 2013Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Emiliano Sciarra, Marco Donadoni, Calssara, Elffi25.100
6Play 2014Modena Fiere5-6 April 2014Gary Chalk, Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Giada Robin, Ivo de Palma, Francesco Sanseverino, Anna Sanchez, Angelo Di Chello, Olga Zimina, Giuseppe Palumbo27.600
7Play 2015Modena Fiere11-12 April 2015Angelo Porazzi, Mac Gerdts, Shane Lacy Hensley, Charles Bo Nielsen30.800
8Play 2016Modena Fiere2-3 April 2016Jason Matthews, Richard Shako, Malik Hyltoft, Roberto Fraga, Sunita Sunymao Zucca, Mac Gerdts, Luigi “Bigio” Cecchi, Riccardo Crosa, Andrea Angiolino33.000
9Play 2017Modena Fiere1-2 April 201735.000
10Play 2018Modena Fiere6-8 April 201840.000
11Play 2019Modena Fiere5-6-7 April 2019Jason Carl, Mac Gerdts, Eric M. Lang, Asger Sams Granerud, Luke Crane, Vladimír Suchý, Richard Breese, Olivier Zamfirescu, Mikkel Bertelsen, Angel Giraldez, Raffaele Du Marteau44.000

References
  1. Corinna Spirito (29 March 2016). ""Play": la rivincita del gioco da tavolo in un mondo tutto digital". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 4 April 2016.
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