PLAY – The Game Festival, the international event dedicated to Board-Games, Role-playing Games,
Miniatures Games, Live, and Collectible Card Games returns from May 17th to 19th at ModenaFiere with more than 28.000 square meters of covered area in five different pavilions.
More than 2.500 tables ready to play, 7,000 chairs, thousands of titles including great classics, latest releases, meetings and conferences.
Many news for this special edition that we will be able to announce in the coming weeks including a web site both in english and german.
All the main publishers will attend Play 2024 including Asmodee, Cranio Creations, dV Games, Ghenos Games, MS Edizioni, Giochi Uniti, Iello. Mancalamaro, Red Glove, Pendragon, Devir, Ravensburger, Clementoni, Wizards of the Coast, Need Games, Hasbro, Ludus Magnus, Giochix, Spin Master, Djeco, Flesh & Blood … the complete list is growing day by day.
This year Play will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons and Role Playing Games with events, meetings, special guests.
We will have fun playing with the words role, experience and narration. Role-playing but also the role of gaming in our society.
The Fantasy Map of PLAY –The Game Festival.
The 15th edition of PLAY –The Game Festival will also be an opportunity to see a dream come
true. The well-known artist and cartographer Francesca Baerald will draw a spectacular
fantasy map of PLAY. The artist, who was born and raised in Modena, Italy, is known for her
work done for books, video games and role-playing games, such as D&D, Magic: The
Gathering, Gloomhaven, Warhammer, Warcraft, Diablo IV, Horizon Forbidden West, the Iron
Throne and many others. Francesca’s daily working tools are watercolor, ink, acrylic and oil,
and with these she will create this exciting new project.
Scientific Area.
Play also hosts those who work on games by building innovative game-based research projects in a wide variety of disciplinary fields. Confirming the fundamental role of games in learning and study
processes, again this year PLAY counts on the collaboration of some of the most important
Italian research institutions that will be present with their proposals: the National Institute of
Astrophysics (INAF), the National Institute of Nucelar Physics (INFN) and the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) that will be joined by important institutions from the academic world such as the IMT of Lucca, L’Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna confirmed for the first time that will flank the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the University of Florence and the University of Genoa. The same area will also host an area dedicated to inclusive and accessible play organized in collaboration with AUSL Modena.
Organized by ModenaFiere in collaboration with Ludo Labo and the support of Club TreEmme,
La Tana dei Goblin and dozens of other Italian play associations,
