PLAY: The Games Festival

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The Games Festival

Genre| Gaming
Location(s)| Modena
Country| Italy
Inaugurated| 1982
Attendance| 10,000 in 2008
Organized by| Club TreEmme
Website| http://www.play-modena.it/

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

## History[edit]

The Italian Gamers Con started in 1982. It moves year after year between Pavia, Padova, Modena, Verona, Roma and so on. After a few years, few cities/associations were able to manage a big event, such as The Italian Gamers Con, 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 organizing 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 more recent games are yo-kai watch, Pokémon sun and Pokémon moon.

## Editions[edit]

Edition | Name | Location | Date | Guests | Nr. Visitors

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1 | Play 2008 | Modena Fiere | 27-28 September 2008 | Andreas Seyfarth, Karen Seyfarth, Christophe Boelinger, Riccardo Crosa, Ennio Peres, Riccardo Albini | 4.400
2 | Play 2010 | Modena Fiere | 13-14 March 2010 | Reiner Knizia, Friedemann Friese, Francesco Moser | 17.600
3 | Play 2011 | Modena Fiere | 26-27 March 2011 | Cephas Howard, Luca Giuliano | 19.700
4 | Play 2012 | Modena Fiere | 24-25 March 2012 | Martin Wallace, Andrew Sheerin, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Matthijs Holter | 22.200
5 | Play 2013 | Modena Fiere | 6-7 April 2013 | Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Emiliano Sciarra, Marco Donadoni, Calssara, Elffi | 25.100
6 | Play 2014 | Modena Fiere | 5-6 April 2014 | Gary Chalk, Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Giada Robin, Ivo de Palma, Francesco Sanseverino, Anna Sanchez, Angelo Di Chello, Olga Zimina, Giuseppe Palumbo | 27.600
7 | Play 2015 | Modena Fiere | 11-12 April 2015 | Angelo Porazzi, Mac Gerdts, Shane Lacy Hensley, Charles Bo Nielsen | 30.800
8 | Play 2016 | Modena Fiere | 2-3 April 2016 | Jason Matthews, Richard Shako, Malik Hyltoft, Roberto Fraga, Sunita Sunymao Zucca, Mac Gerdts, Luigi “Bigio” Cecchi, Riccardo Crosa, Andrea Angiolino | 33.000
9 | Play 2017 | Modena Fiere | 1-2 April 2017 |  | 35.000
10 | Play 2018 | Modena Fiere | 6-8 April 2018 |  | 40.000
11 | Play 2019 | Modena Fiere | 5-6-7 April 2019 | Jason Carl, Mac Gerdts, Eric M. Lang, Asger Sams Granerud, Luke Crane, Vladimír Suchý, Richard Breese, Olivier Zamfirescu, Mikkel Bertelsen, Angel Giraldez, Raffaele Du Marteau | 44.000

## References[edit]

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.

## External links[edit]

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