Luc Bernard is a British

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

and

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

best known for creating the video games '' Death Tales'', ''

Eternity's Child ''Eternity's Child'' (previously known as ''Angel's Eternity'') is a Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling platform game based on a fairy tale created by Luc Bernard. It was released by Luc Bernard and Silver Sphere Studios on Steam (service ...

'', ''

Mecho Wars ''Mecho Wars'' is a turn-based strategy video game developed by British studio Oyaji Games and designed by Luc Bernard which is set in the same world as ''Eternity's Child''. It was released for iOS on June 13, 2009. It was released on PlayStat ...

'', '' Desert Ashes'', '' Plague Road'', '' Pocket God vs Desert Ashes'' and '' SteamPirates''. He is also known for '' Imagination Is The Only Escape'' which remains unreleased.

Games

Bernard's first video game was the

platformer A platform game (often simplified as platformer and sometimes called a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are charac ...

''. '' Imagination Is The Only Escape'', a game that deals with the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

, has also courted controversy for its dark setting and subject matter. Although declaring that he would quit the game industry, Bernard later came back and founded Oyaji Games in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

. Oyaji Games first game ''

'' received a better reception. Luc Bernard released a

role-playing video game A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or RPG, as well as a computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immers ...

for the iPhone called '' SteamPirates''. Bernard announced the PS4 PS Vita free to play action role-playing game ''Death Tales'' and a spinoff in the ''

Pocket God ''Pocket God'' is a simulation game developed by Bolt Creative, in which the player manipulates an island and its inhabitants. It was released for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch on January 9, 2009, and released for Verizon Wireless on September ...

'' franchise in 2015. Kitten Squad which he directed for

PETA Peta or PETA may refer to: Acronym * Pembela Tanah Air, a militia established by the occupying Japanese in Indonesia in 1943 * People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an American animal rights organization * People Eating Tasty Animals, an ...

was released on 15 September. In November launched the successful Kickstarter campaign for ''Plague Road'', along with one of the reviewers of ''Eternity's Child'' and

Jim Sterling James Stephanie Sterling, also known as Jim Sterling, is an English-American freelance video game journalist, critic, pundit, YouTuber, and professional wrestler. Before becoming independent in September 2014, they were the review editor for ...

as narrator. On 21 March the Beta for ''Death Tales'' was launched on PlayStation 4.

References

British video game designers British Jews Living people 1986 births {{videogame-bio-stub