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IVIPRO’s new horizons: including museums on its maps
Museums have now become the latest access point for video game storytelling, starting from the heritage they preserve. IVIPRO aims to extend its database by including some important Italian museums.
Another Italian region joins IVIPRO
Lazio is now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany and Trentino.
Playable Sardinia
The natural features of Sardinia provide an ideal scenery for videogame development. IVIPRO has recently interviewed two Sardinian entrepreneurs who both aim at playing with the local territory and narrating it through technology.
Mobile aerobatics: an interview with Rortos team
The National Aerobatic Team (Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale) was founded in 1961 by the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare). The mobile app Frecce Tricolori Flight Simulator lets the users get into the cockpit and execute incredible aerobatic maneuvers.
More Italian regions join IVIPRO
Piedmont, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, and the Aosta Valley are now part of the list of Italian regions to be mapped for IVIPRO, together with Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Tuscany, and Trentino.
Playable Milano: an interview with Italo Games
IVIPRO interviews Emmanuele Tornusciolo of Italo Games, a developer team from Milan that intends to bring Italian videogames at an international level, presenting typical Italian places, aesthetics and themes.
TOWERandPOWER, VR and Middle Ages in Bologna
Bologna in the 13th century turns to reality thanks to the VR. TOWERandPOWER is a time machine that allows the user to walk through the streets of Bologna and to see in first person its fascinating colonnades and the towers, as they were in the Middle Ages.
Tax credit: tax breaks also for the production of videogames
The law reform about the cinema and audiovisual sector has been approved by the Italian parlament.
Playable Palermo: an interview with Sylphe labs
In Occultus – Cabala Mediterranea, the four members of the Sicilian team Sylphe labs guide the player through Palermo in the early 1900’s, in a graphic adventure game full of esotericism, mysteries and stories which are strictly connected to the Sicilian city.