“I was thinking about this. Because, you know, with Japanese, UK or American games, you can see specific characteristics sometimes. You can really see, ‘okay, this is probably a game that’s been produced in say, Japan.’ You have distinctive traits. “For now, I think that in Italy, we don’t really
have distinctive traits – for now. But I see some patterns, actually. There is a lot of creativity in Italy, you know, we grow up, usually in beautiful cities, beautiful countryside, we are exposed in a passive way to a lot of arts and design. You’re in this kind of setting, full of arts and creativity everywhere. And at the same time, you have a lot of design – the car industry and the fashion industry is huge. “We’ve seen that there is a lot of creativity, and
usually it’s not really well supported. In games you can be very creative, but you need to actually need investment and the right mindset to really make a product. Turning art into a product, it’s bizarre. We are still in the process of pinpointing what an Italian game is, from an art or design point of view. “At the same time, we can see that we have
some game genres that are popular in Italy. We have racing games, the Moto GP games, made by Milestone, and we have Assetto Corsa, which
is made in Italy (by Kunos Simulazioni). So you know, everything that’s racing, we have a lot of good expertise on that. At the same time, we have horror games. I think horror and racing games right now are probably the two most popular genres that are being made in Italy.”
TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN’ With the right support, there’s certainly potential for growth here. With the right support, the Italian games industry could be a major contender a few years down the road. After all, while it might be behind countries like the UK and elsewhere, the Italian industry had already come a long way over Fanelli’s 20-plus-year career – from his earliest days as a journalist right up to today. Fanelli founded
Alternative-Reality.co, one of
Italy’s first gaming websites, in 1997. Following that, he founded the indie development studio MixedBag in 2013, has been the developer representative for At the same time, we can see that we have some game genreIIDEA for the last four years and won outstanding individual contribution to the Italian Games Sector in 2021 at the IVGAs.
A sample of the games from the 10 studios taking part in the incubator, including Der Marsch from Baryonyx, Sephirot – the Game from Mav Reality (below) and SATAN Jr from Adalot Networks (right, opposite)
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