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T.R.I.P. 99 - The Real Italian Party

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/* THE WOODSTOCK OF COMPUTER SCIENCE */ The european Demoscene and the real-time computer art for the first time in Florence. The prestigious and impressive rooms of Fortezza da Basso will give hospitality up to 1000 people participating and competing together. 3000sq.m of space for the most creative and best programmers, 3d artists, computer-musicians and designers. Four days non-stop (24/24) mega-screen projections of high level computer-graphic demonstrations with a very professional and powerful audio equipment. Very fast internet connections, electricity and tables available for everyone coming to the party place with his own computer. Prestigious sponsors and big prizes. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ /* TRIP IS OVER */ The first edition of TRiP took place in Benevento in January 1998, already enjoying considerable success and bringing together nearly 100 technical developers and computer art and programming experts. This...

DLab Videogames - school for Developers

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/* DLAB VIDEOGAMES */ DLab has been the first italian videogame school that had three editions in Arezzo, Florence and Ferrara. Founded in 2002 and conducted with by Fabio Barzagli and his friend Bernardo Innocenti , DLab has been collaborating and organizing courses with many partners like Cooperativa Sociale Electra (Nicola Benigni), ITIS Galileo Galilei Arezzo, Develer SRL, ISA Firenze, ITIS Carpeggiani Ferrara, Centro Studi CS Pistoia, Regione Toscana, with the contribute of the European Social Funds (FSE) for innovative projects. DLab had the attention of main italian videogames magazine like The Game Machine, Game Programming, Music Planet, Bitplane, 3D Mansion, .., and was invited for conference during WEBB.IT 2002 (big italian meeting in Padova on video game development and demoscene) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ /* STARSHOCKS */ The first multiplatform videogame developed was called "Starshocks" ( asteroid clone ) an...