Lucca Comics and Games 2022 - Comics & Games Factory: here are the three finalists of the call for ideas
Lucca Comics and Games 2022 - Comics & Games Factory
To reach the final of the first phase of Comics & Games Factory, the call for ideas promoted by Lucca Crea srl and Lucca Comics & Games with the exclusive partnership of Intesa Sanpaolo, were Scripta di Pietro Sgherzi, Liliana Costa and Tiziano Ottaviani; Trixo by Antonio Maestro, Salvatore Palombo and Maria El Asmar; Cosmunit by Valentina Accoto and Alexandra Gavrilescu. As ambassador of the initiative, the most important Italian streamer and content creator Sara "Kurolily" Stefanizzi and Mario Moroni, podcaster, digital entrepreneur and startup expert, who enthusiastically joined the initiative since 20 June 2022, thanks to their respective personal and professional experiences.
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Lucca Comics and Games 2022
Lucca Comics and Games 2022 - Comics & Games Factory: here are the three finalists of the call for ideas
Trixo Cosmunit Scripta The juryAs ambassador of the initiative, the most important Italian streamer and content creator Sara "Kurolily" Stefanizzi and Mario Moroni, podcaster, digital entrepreneur and startup expert, who enthusiastically joined the initiative from 20 June 2022, thanks to their respective personal and professional experiences.
Trixo
Trixo (Antonio Maestro, Salvatore Palombo and Maria El Asmar) is the First Italian Esports Gym, a 360 square meter facility located in the center of Naples dedicated to all Esports fans. Inside, customers will be able to take advantage of 30 gaming stations, a snack bar and a large relaxation room where Esports competitions will be broadcast. Workstations dedicated to gamers and professionals, Coaching, Pro Player workouts for individual athletes or teams but also Mental Training Sessions for professionals are the activities that will take place within the "gym". Trixo's goal is to spread the culture of gaming in Italy through the education of young people and the promotion of esports competitions.
Cosmunit (Alexandra Gavrilescu and Valentina Accotto): is the first community for cosplayers on the app. An application that can keep you updated on all Italian cosplay events and that, thanks to the space dedicated to users, creates a loyal and positive community. Through this application you can receive information and updates on events dedicated to this world and stay in touch with members: cosplayers, creators of objects, costumes, photographers and make-up artists. From within the app it will be possible to organize to travel together for events of interest but also to sell or buy costumes and second-hand items. The app will provide users with the ability to write tutorials or get help, publish their work on their personal page and even find cosplay groups in their region.
Scripta
Emanuele Vietina, Director of Lucca Comics & Games proudly comments: “Listening to speeches today, all linked to community based projects presented in a community event, builds the most precise photography of what Lucca Comics & Games is”.
From December 2022 to May 2023, Lucca Crea S.r.l (the company that organizes Lucca Comics & Games) will provide the selected projects with additional mentoring, coaching, accompaniment services with professionals and sector experts or logistics and support (by way of example and not limited to: co-working office rental) useful for expanding, strengthening, enriching and developing the ideas and activities proposed by the winning groups. The amount of the value of the services offered by Lucca Crea S.r.l for the 2022 edition of Comics & Games Factory will be equal to a total of € 40,000 to be divided among the winning groups. Subsequently, the details of the services and consultancy useful to transform the idea into a profession will be announced to the three finalist projects.
Claudia Vassena, Intesa Sanpaolo Digital Retail Sales & Marketing Manager, comments: “Beautiful energy, freshness, it is It's nice to talk about dreams and hear these guys tell about their projects ".
The jury
Judging the best projects was a jury of experts composed of Emanuele Vietina (Director of Lucca Comics & Games ), Claudia Vassena (Head of Sales & Marketing Digital Retail Intesa Sanpaolo), Ilja Rotelli (Head of Investment & Business Development at Amazon International), Valeria Zaffina (Group Brand Manager at Ubisoft), Renato Franchi (Head of Marketing at Star Comics), Fabio Viola (Metaverse Designer, Videogame Designer and Producer, Videogames Museum Curator), Mario Cortese (CEO of GateOnGames), Gabriele Troilo (Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University), Dani el Schmidhofer (CEO of Progaming), Gian Luca Rocco (journalist specializing in new media and video games at Mediaset) and Patricia Consonni (Creative Agency Partner for Meta Italia).
