MARCO MAZZAGLIA, IT Manager and Video Game Evangelist – Milestone

Marco Mazzaglia was born in Turin in 1974.  At the age of 3 he had the first “contact” with computer and video games. Several years later he earned his degree in Computer Science at “Università degli Studi di Torino”, writing a graduation thesis about DyLog, a metalanguage of Prolog for the Artificial Intelligence.

In 1996 with other 23 people he founded a Social Co-operative, “La Bussola”, in order to deliver services related to web technologies and to teach the use of the Internet to no-lucrative organizations.

In his first job he worked on web architectures and localization based services for the Ministry of the Interior and the Italian State Police.

By January 2008 he works as IT Manager and Video Game Evangelist for Milestone; in this context, he takes care of the development systems and he works on the online game architectures.

Make your passion your profession: how to get into the video game industry

Many people say that making video games is the best work in the world, but what does it really mean? What are the choices that stand behind a creative effort? What are the roles and the skills needed in order to get into it? Is it only matter of passion for video games? The speech will give suggestions in order to know and to enter in the world of game industry.

Workshop: Retrogaming, how to learn from the past: successes and mistakes in the history of video games