Reading Time: 9 minutesToday is the 40th anniversary of Peppino Impastato’s death. His bravery and history are deeply inspirational to me and many others. He opposed Sicilian mafia and gave his life to follow his moral principles in a time when fighting it was unthinkable. Few months ago, during the Global Game Jam 2018, I’ve made a short...

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08/04/2018

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A Way Out truly understands co-op

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Reading Time: 5 minutesA couple of weeks ago I played A Way Out and I have to say the game left a really strong impression on me. There are some design elements that I found particularly fascinating and that I’d like to talk about. This post will mostly be spoiler free, but I’ll give a heads up in...

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01/04/2018

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The player-centric wildlife of Horizon Zero Dawn

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Reading Time: 4 minutesI originally wrote this article for the Italian website Outcast.it It took me a bit more than one year to finish Horizon Zero Dawn, not because of the great amount of content, but mostly because I often got lost in its marvelous world spending too much time exploring it and obsessing with the game’s Photo...

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28/02/2016

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Steam Greenlight: how I got Memoir En Code greenlit in 6 weeks

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Reading Time: 8 minutesSorry for the radio silence, I’ve spent the last week in Norway making games on a cruise ship for the Splash Jam (I’ll write about it soon) and then I spent some time doing paper-work and working on some prototypes. If you haven’t heard of it, the big news is that Memoir En Code will...

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12/02/2016

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Firewatch: is a game as good as its dialogues?

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Reading Time: 8 minutesUPDATE: Campo Santo released a patch for the PS4 version of Firewatch that seems to address most of the points discussed in this article. I guess I’ll have to find time to play the game again and finally enjoy it to the fullest. Thanks Campo Santo! Last week I got so hyped about the release...

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01/02/2016

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My gamejam history [Part 1: How it all started]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2011 I took part in my absolute first game jam. At that time the democratization of game development just started and my Twitter feed wasn’t remotely as busy as it is nowadays. My tiny gamedev focused feed included few developers, among whom there were Jason, Damian and Michael, all of them – if I’m not...

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28/01/2016

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Making a screensaver

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Reading Time: 6 minutesFew days ago I decided to take part in the ScreensaverJam organized by JW and Kitty. The 2-days event was basically meant to celebrate those (mostly) ugly animations that were supposed to keep our monitors healthy, back in the days. At the beginning I had the idea of making something procedural and particularly ugly, but after drawing...

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A Way Out truly understands co-op

The player-centric wildlife of Horizon Zero Dawn

The Witness: my (short) review

Steam Greenlight: how I got Memoir En Code greenlit in 6 weeks

Firewatch: is a game as good as its dialogues?

My gamejam history [Part 1: How it all started]

Making a screensaver

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