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Learn the business of game making through talks by international guests and partners

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Celebrate the best Italian games published last year

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highlights
2020

50+ international publishers and investors
70+ italian game developments studios
14 countries represented
539 business meetings in 2 days
267 hours of meetings

Coaching

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Every studio and team that joins First Playable can book a couple of meetings for free to show its pitch or project to an international industry professional, Edward Valiente. Then, it will receive feedbacks about how to improve the deck and how to present it to the right publishers during the event.

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Edward Valiente
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Edward Valiente

Ed Valiente joined the industry straight from university in 1997, having wasted most of his Social & Political Sciences degree playing Mario Kart. His first role was as a certification tester at Sony QA in Liverpool where he subsequently became the first European Localisation Coordinator working. In 1999 he moved to Squaresoft to establish their European QA and Localisation department. He was Microsoft EMEA Game Evaluation Manager for the original Xbox launch and then moved in 2013 to Namco to become a Product Manager working on series such as Tekken, SoulCalibur, Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, Time Crisis, Tales of and Katamari. In 2006 he moved to Helsinki and worked at Rovio as Sales & Marketing Director in the pre-Angry Birds days but he didn’t enjoy mobile games so took a sabbatical and spent 18 months DJing and promoting clubs.

In 2010

he got the opportunity to join Nintendo of Europe’s Business Development and Account Management team in Germany where he spent 8 years working with everyone from AAA publishers to micro studios and was involved in developer outreach for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Switch launches.

In 2018

he moved to Gothenburg to help set up Thunderful’s publishing arm and manage Rising Star Games after its acquisition, before going freelance in August 2020. He currently spends half his time working for Thunderful as a consultant scouting for new titles and handling developer and platform relations and is enjoying his afternoons off with his 1-year old daughter.

Pitching

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what

MeetToMatch is the most effective way to do business during First Playable.

how

Use the online meeting manager to browse through the attendees, manage your schedule and plan 30-minute meetings.

who

Between international publishers and investment funds, and Italian developers, start-ups and indie studios participating in First Playable.

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The Italian video Game Awards reward the best video games published during the year and promote the cultural and artistic value of this medium.

This year’s is the ninth edition of the awards and it will be exclusively dedicated to Italian-made video games, a light on the best of the Italian development talent with the awards themselves decided by an international panel of respected luminaries from across the game industry. The award ceremony will be live streamed on 1 July 2021.

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italian game

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italian debut game

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innovation

outstanding
individual contribution

outstanding
italian company

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