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Lucca Games
Lucca Games is the foremost Italian Game Industry trade
fair and convention (role-playing games, board games, collectible
card games, three-dimensional war-games and fantasy imagery). Born
in 1993, in the course of these few years it turned to be a successful
intuition: a cultural choice which threw a new light on the strict
connections between the world of games and the world of cartooning,
involving new and old trends of culture and entertainment, from
conventional comics to computer graphics, from fantasy novels to
simulated battles, from illustration to board games, game designing
and narrative.
During these years Lucca Games has become the most important Italian
game fair, and one of the most important in Europe. The secret?
It has been planned as something more than a simple trade fair,
trying not to spoil the attitude and the pleasure that give life
to conventions of fans. A place for games and fancy,
where the audience can have the chance to put on the dresses of
a hero, or to meet a famous author, or simply to see and try the
previews of the next season new releases.
This walkthrough into the medium of entertainment is achieved thanks
to the constant presence of the most brilliant Italian game designers
and publishing houses, which every year take part at the fair alongside
of young fandom subscribers and associations
which, never tired of playing, set up their initiatives involving
the audience into the most exciting and astonishing experiences.
Plenty of tables for demonstrations and trials
where everybody can test games under the guide of experienced game
masters; contests and tournaments,
seminars about fantasy narrative, exhibitions dedicated
to the most important fantasy artists, a Meeting
Hall where to take part in discussions with world-famous
illustrators such as Brom, Rick Berry, Phil Hale, Justine Sweet,
Ciruelo, John Howe, Larry Elmore, Montanini, Palumbo, Parente and
with the most important authors and game designers like George R.R. Martin, Richard
Garfield, Margaret Weis, Joe Dever, Valerio Evangelisti, Alan Dean
Foster and Jervis Johnson. Lastly, the prestigious Best
of Show, awarded to the best new productions at the game
fair.
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