The Brazilian Association, with the goal to promote videogames as a new form of art and culture, has a lot of important activities in educational, financial and industrial fields. Primary goals are the revision of the Brazilian taxes, the promotion of Brazilian and world Digital Games Industry and the improvement of national and international creative talents.

ACIGAMES also organizes some important events such as the Fair Play Day, a meeting for all the videogames professionals and an occasion for distributors to sell games at competitive prizes, and the ACIGAMES Indie Fest, a festival dedicated to independent games in the 2012.

ACIGAMES will attend the Italian Videogame Developers Conference 2011/2012 to support with its case history AIOMI activities for the promotion of the Videogame Culture. Besides, AIOMI and ACIGAMES partnership establishes the mutual support and planning of common projects for the future to a new and full education to Videogame.

The All-Russian Conference on Game Industry, organized by RADIT, the Russian Game Industry Association, is an important occasion to meet and exchange knowledge and know-how on the National and International game industry, thanks to conferences, workshops and B2B areas.
The last edition of the event was set in Moscow with focus on online and social games; all information about 2011 edition will be disclosed in the following weeks.

The partnership with AIOMI and IVDC 2011/2012 will be aimed towards reciprocal support between the two events, with exchange of visibility and planning of common projects for the future.

The Italian Videogame Developers Conference (IVDC) 2010, held at the LUISS University in Rome on the 3rd-4th December has now confirmed its international programme.

Available on the IVDC website www.ivdconf.com, the programme features international figures and the leading lights of the Italian videogame community.

On Friday 3^rd December, the first day of the event, delegates will hear amongst others, Phil Harrison, former president of Sony Worldwide Studios and former president of Atari, SpinVector CEO Giovanni Caturano together with Daniele Azara, executive producer of Palzoun, KooPee Hiltunen, co-founder of the European Game Developers Federation, Irvn Zonca, head of Racing Group with Milestone Studios and Avni Yerli, managing director of Crytek.

For Saturday 4^th December, the speakers will include Andrea Pessino, co founder of Ready at Dawn studios, Riccardo Cangini, CEO of Artematica, Jason Della Rocca, AIOMI international consultant on the new videogame museum project – ViGaMus, Fabrizio Vagliasindi, strategic corporate coordinator of Black Bean Games and Cornelius Wiegmann, head of marketing for audio specialists, Periscope studio.

Marco Accordi Rickards, President of the IVDC said, “Over the past 3 years, the IVDC has grown from a national event, to an international conference on the world stage. We are delighted to have so many leading Italian companies sharing their ideas, and to have so many international speakers for this year’s event shows just how important the Italian videogames industry is becoming.”

**The IVDC 2010 will end with a special session starring the guest speaker of the conference Peter Molyneux, founder of Lionhead Studios and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe. Peter Molyneux will be conducting his speech at the event on Monday 6^th December, and afterwards it’ll go online on the IVDC website**

Marco Accordi Rickards continues, “Our entire focus is to help build the Italian videogames industry into a world leader, but to do this, we need to help, motivate and inspire a whole range of visitors to IVDC 2010! Our guest speakers will cover an extensive range of subjects during the event so everyone attending will find something of interest.”

Contact Eliana Bentivegna at direzione@aiomi.it or Kristien Wendt at Kristien@charactercomms.com for more information.

For further details on ViGaMus, visit www.vigamus.com. For more details on the IVDC 2010, visit www.ivdconf.com and follow the conference on www.twitter.com/ivdc2010

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The Italian Videogame Developer Conference (IVDC) 2010, held at the LUISS University in Rome on the 3rd-4th December, has today unveiled its new branding.

Marco Accordi Rickards, President of the IVDC said, “Our new IVDC brand identity reflects the maturity and progression we have made with the conference over the past 3 years. IVDC 2010 will be our most important conference to date and as such, we felt the time was right for a new look. This, together with the fact that the official language will be English, meant that overall we wanted the new design to reflect our international intentions. There are exciting times ahead for the Italian videogames industry and IVDC 2010 is just the beginning.”

For more information on IVDC 2010, contact Eliana Bentivegna at direzione@aiomi.it or Kristien Wendt at Kristien@charactercomms.com.

For more details on the IVDC 2010, visit www.ivdconf.com and follow the conference on www.twitter.com/ivdc2010

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The Italian Videogame Developer Conference (IVDC) 2010, held at the LUISS University in Rome on the 3rd-4th December will play host to the unveiling of one of Europe’s most ambitious videogame projects to date.

ViGaMus, an abbreviation of Video Games Museum, will be the first Museum outside of Japan and the United States focused purely on the videogame medium. ViGaMus is scheduled for completion in 2011 and will be situated near the beautiful Piazza Mazzini near the centre of Rome.

Marco Accordi Rickards, President of the IVDC and Director of AIOMI staid, “ViGaMus is the first of a raft of ambitious projects which sees the Italian Videogames industry, Italian government and private investors working closely together towards a common goal. Building enterprise, skill sets and inspiration into the Italian videogames industry, ViGaMus sends a message to the world that Italy is confident, innovative and open for business.”

ViGaMus will not only focus on the beginnings of worldwide videogame culture, but will also showcase current trends and games, and look toward the future with exhibitions and seminars on new videogame directions and technologies.

Raoul Carbone, President of the Italian Videogame Developer association (IVD) said, “Italy is quickly becoming one of the biggest consumers of videogame products and this trend shows no sign of abatting. We’re also seeing many aspring Italian videogames companies being established and developing new and radical ideas which, in many ways, help create the next steps for the industry. ViGaMus represents where Italy is now and our ambitions for the future. Italy is beginning to make its mark.”

The announcement and presentation at the IVDC in December will be made by project leader Jason Della Rocca and will feature the premiere of the new ViGaMus film illustrating the full extent of the project and its hopes for the future.

Marco concludes; “Overall, the ViGaMus project is a clear indication of Italy’s ambition within the videogames industry. We need good and great ideas for the industry to move forward and projects such as ViGaMus will work very well to help provide the necessary inspiration.”

Please contact Eliana Bentivegna at direzione@aiomi.it or Kristien Wendt at Kristien@charactercomms.com for more information.

For further details on ViGaMus, visit www.vigamus.com. For more details on the IVDC 2010, visit www.ivdconf.com and follow the conference on www.twitter.com/ivdc2010

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On Friday 29th and Sunday 31st October, AIOMI, the Italian Association for the Interactive Multimedia – Movement for Videogame Culture, will hold Round Table discussions under the Italian Videogame Developer Conference (IVDC) banner at this year’s Lucca Comics and Games event in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

The event is one of the most prestigious Comic and Videogame events in the world and boasts over 150,000 visitors per year. It will showcase the IVDC discussing Italian videogame industry issues prior to the international conference in Rome in December. From the future of the Italian Videogame industry to the Italian government’s ambitious plans for 2011 and beyond, the Round Table event will provide visitors with a unique insight to the history, ambition and innovations emerging from Italy’s videogame community and industry.

The Italian Minister for Youth, Giorgia Meloni, will exclusively announce plans for new videogame technologies and games to be developed to celebrate Italy’s 150^th anniversary. This project, working together with AIOMI and leading Italian videogames developers, is one of many initiatives which Italy is undertaking to build its videogame industry into a world leader.

Marco Accordi Rickards, President of AIOMI said, “To appear at the Lucca Comics and Games event is very important to IVDC as we want to open a clear dialogue to aspiring videogame developers and fans alike. By attending the Round Tables, visitors will hear first-hand the exciting plans we have for the industry overall and we want them to leave inspired!”

The Lucca Comics and Games will run from Friday 29^th October – Monday 1^st November at the Carducci building and across the city. For more information, please visit www.luccacomicsandgames.com

For more information, please contact Eliana Bentivegna at direzione@aiomi.it or Kristien Wendt at Kristien@charactercomms.com

For more details on the IVDC 2010, visit www.ivdconf.com and follow the conference on www.twitter.com/ivdc2010

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Trinigy to show its latest game engine technology at the Italian Videogame Developers Conference

Eningen, Germany – Okt 02, 2009 – Trinigy, an industry leading 3D game engine provider with over 100 licensees and offices in Germany and Austin, TX, today announced that it has selected the Italian Videogame Developers Conference in Milan, Italy (October 8-9) for the European debut of its Vision Engine 7.6. One of the company’s founders and a veteran of the middleware space – Fabian Roeken – will be on-hand to demonstrate the Vision Engine’s latest workflow and runtime features at Trinigy’s Booth in the exhibition area.
“We have received a lot of interest from Italian videogame developers of all sizes and varieties,” said Richard Radmacher, director of international sales at Trinigy. “The popularity of the Italian Videogame Developers Conference gives us the perfect opportunity to show how well-suited our latest multi-platform game engine technology, our flexible licensing model and our dedicated support are for the diversity of the Italian market.”
Some of the Vision Engine 7.6 features to be shown at the conference include:

Tool and Workflow Upgrades:
- Animation Transition Editor: This new editor empowers artists to easily create animation transitions without the aid of programmers
- Component Editing in vForge: Behaviors and properties can easily be applied to objects on-the-fly in vForge
- Upgraded Terrain Editor: An improved Terrain Editor now supports unique maps, such as satellite data
- Deferred Shading Integration: Deferred shading is now fully integrated into vForge Runtime Improvements:
- Deferred Rendering: Highly optimized for each platform, it includes time-of-day, screen-space ambient occlusion, cascaded soft shadows, depth-of-field and rim lighting.
- Extended LUA Scripting Integration: Create/modify particle effects and access/modify object components
- New PlayStation3 Renderer: A new highly optimized renderer for the PS3 platform.
- DX11 Support – Support for DX11-based hardware.

New and Upgraded Partner Integrations:
- Natural Motion’s Morpheme
- Scaleform GFx 3.0
- SpeedTree 5
- Kynapse AI
To receive a personal demonstration of the Vision Engine 7.6 at the Italian Videogame Developers Conference,
contact sales@trinigy.net.

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The second edition of the Italian game developers National Congress will be held at the IULM in Milan

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Rome, April 2nd, 2009

AIOMI, the Italian Association for the Interactive Multimedia – Movement for the Videogame Culture, made known date and location of the second edition of the Italian Videogame Developers Conference, one and only National Congress dedicated to the Italian game developers.

After the big success of the first edition among the public, press and professionals, the IVDC 2009 will be held in the Main Conference Room of the IULM University in Milan, from October 8th to October 9th 2009. The Congress, with the prestigious partnership of IULM, The Art of Games, GDC China, Dubai World Game Expo, IGDA Education SIG, and many more, will be the natural meeting place to exchange knowledge, instruments and techniques between the most important professionals in the field and the people who would like to find a job in the videogame development field, an industry that keeps on growing and has matched and surpassed many others, like the movie industry.

The Italian Videogame Developers Conference will be, from this edition on, the official event of the Association of the Italian Videogame Developers in Assoknowledge / Confindustria, with the participation of all the Italian companies of the Association. “An event like the IVDC cannot be improvised and this second edition will consolidate the congress as the one and real moment of confrontation and meeting for the Italian videogame industry”, declared Marco Accordi Rickards, President of AIOMI and organizer and chairman of the IVDC. “Now that the IVDC is also the official Conference of the Italian Videogame Developers in Confindustria,” added Raoul Carbone, General Secretary of AIOMI and President of the Association, “not only it will be a cultural event, but it will become also a vital meeting for an entire Italian economic sector.”

In the next months more details will be communicated about the conference programme, the organized panels and the special events for the two-days in Milan. For further information: www.ivdconf.it/eng

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