Francesco Berton

Venice 2089 (2022, PC, Consoles)
by Safe Place Studio

Roles: Game Director, World Designer, Level Designer

Venice 2089 is an explorative and narrative game. You'll explore the city through the eyes of Nova, a bored teenager who has currently no clue about what to do in life and just wants to relax from the stress of their usual routine. Ride your hoverboard and interact with your toy-drone, in a city affected by tides and climate change.Winner of Redbull Indie Forge 2022 and Best Italian Debut Game at IGVA 2023.

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• Epic Games
• Nintendo Switch
• PlayStation
• Xbox

Oath (2019, Demo PC)
by Mentis Falli

Roles: Art Director, Level Designer

Oath is a single player isometric hack ‘n’ slash about as Aya, once a samurai, who fights to bring back peace after a great curse was cast upon the world. Using her special kusarigama able to turn blood into light Aya will try to break the Blood Moon curse, in a world where every single shadow of the environment hurts.

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Underlight (2018, Demo PC)
by Mentis Falli

Roles: Art Director, Game Designer

Underlight it's a 2D puzzle platformer. As a little child, flee from the monsters all around you and reach for the safety of your parents’ room. Turn on the lights to unveil what hides behind those dark creatures.

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Radiowarz (2018, Boardgame)
with Marina Andreose, Daniele Artusi, Milena Sorpilli, Giacomo Garbo

Roles: Game Designer, 3D Printing

Radiowarz is a party boardgame about spreading your radio show: steal your opponent’s frequencies and reach the largest audience! Place your Radio Station to spread your transmission; you’re transmitting in a region if your string crosses it. Cross all the regions in your objective card to win the game. Made during the Global Game Jam 2018, the project has been updated in the following months; the newer version of this prototype includes magnetic 3D printed Radio Stations.

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Wasted (2021, PC)
for Global Game Jam

Roles: Game Designer

You wake up after an hangover. The keys of the house are missing, where are them? Wasted gives the player a specific goal but ends up making the player explore the environment with no clues what so ever; aren't games a waste of time after all?

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In a Heartbit - A Robot Dating Simulator (2020, PC)
for Global Game Jam

Roles: Game Designer

After many unsuccessful tries, you finally managed to keep your components stable enough to talk to your robo-crush. It's up to you, though, to make the dream happen! In a Heartbit is a split screen game that mixes a dating simulator with 2D platforming.

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Ease (2019, PC)
for Global Game Jam

Roles: Game Designer

Ease is a split-screen game where the player has to practice daily activities in a moving caravan: on the first screen, they have to drive the car, while on the other four different scenes appear in a daytime loop.

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Overflying Planets (2016, Interactive Installation)
with Riccardo Muffato and Giacomo Dimatore

Roles: 3D Artist, Programmer

In Overflying Planets, the player can interact with the planet displayed on the screen: moving towards makes it roll while jumping changes its appearance. Installation made with Max/MSP and Xbox Kinect.

Giotto e i Colori Perduti (2023, WEB)
with Conform S.C.A.R.L.

Roles: Game Designer, Digital Educator

You play as J. an art student that, in order to complete his homework reasearch, decides to play an old point & click adventure on a CD-Rom. However due to a bug, he gets teletransported inside the game in a mission to rescue Giotto's stolen pigments. This point & click adventure made with Visionaire Studio is the result of a series of workshops made with several italian schools students who were asked to design a story in order get to know both Giotto's art tecniques and their local territories.

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U.Mano - VR Summer School (September 2019)
with Shachar Oz and Fondazione Golinelli

Roles: Game Design Tutor, Project Manager, Game Designer

I helped a group of high school students during the creation of 3 VR projects inspired by Da Vinci painting "La Battaglia di Anghiari"; in 1 week we created an escape room, a sword game and a crafting-arcade game.
Leading 2 months of polishing, all the VR experiences have been exhibited the U-Mano showcase at Opificio Golinelli.

Museo Vendesi (2016, Installation, Exposition)

Museo Vendesi is an artistic project that sums up some of my artistic researches that took place in Porto Tolle, a little town in the delta of Po river. During a local festival an exhibition of old traditional farming tools of that area were presented to the population accompanied by on-site installations., displayed as a contemporary art exhibition in an empty newsstand. The objects had an urgency to be relocated in an appropriate structure, as they were "sold" and put in a shop as a act of protest.

Parco Esplorativo di Fusina (2016, Installation)

A site specific installation made at Fusina, on a nobody's limb of land near Venice. This improductive territory has been used by local citizen as a place for walking out the dog or practice some fishing: cutting the grass and creating safe paths, I transformed the site in a explorative public park that transforms the rural structures in points of interest.

Veramente (2014, Photo book)

Il laboratorio intendeva fare focus su un uso della camera come straniante strumento di osservazione, in un procedimento autoeducativo teso a ravvivare le percezioni di fronte al quotidiano, reso insipido dall’abitudine.
Il corso prevedeva:
Esercizi di lettura su alcuni testi visivi, partendo da osservazioni e descrizioni usualmente date per scontate
Esercizi di grammatica della fotografia intesi come processo conoscitivo e costruzione linguistica (il punto di vista-l’inquadratura-il fuoco-il tempo)
Un progetto finale di libro dal titolo “Veramente” (tema del corso), frutto di un’indagine fotografica in un luogo
Le fotografie del libro finale sono state scattate nella città di Mestre, in particolare lungo la via F. Bandiera e nelle strade circostanti.

Crushed like a bug on the ground (2014, Installation)

Quest’installazione è composta da un disegno a terra creato con scotch carta di larghezza 50mm, raffigurante una bara di lunghezza 4,5m, ai cui lati spuntano 6 zampe. La figura è ricoperta da uno strato circolare di pluriball a bolla grande (Ø 30mm) di diametro 5m; all’interno di quest’ultimo sono inseriti circa 150 gusci di lumaca (4 ogni 0,75 m²).
L’opera è posta al centro della stanza e può essere calpestata in ogni sua parte dal visitatore; l’atto di distruzione di questi elementi e il rumore provocato dalla rottura di essi sono parti integrante dell’installazione.