La Ricetta Perduta - IDEATION + PRODUCTION
2025, Personal Project
La Ricetta Perduta
I designed and built a personalised interactive escape game built around the search for a "lost recipe." The experience led the player on foot across London, from Monument all the way to Highbury & Islington, with each stop offering a bespoke puzzle that unlocked an ingredient, a slice of pizza, and a clue to the next location. One controversial rule kept the stakes high: every wrong answer added a slice of pineapple to the pizza.
I made the whole thing from scratch, spanning narrative, craft, and code. Using LLMs, I built an interactive WhatsApp bot to narrate the game in the voice of historian Alessandro Barbero. I designed the physical props and D&D-style combat mechanics, and produced custom cinematics with Google Veo. The game ended on a twist: winning the "lost recipe book" only to find the recipe was really a collection of memories, and the last missing ingredient was the player himself.
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I designed and built a personalised interactive escape game built around the search for a "lost recipe." The experience led the player on foot across London, from Monument all the way to Highbury & Islington, with each stop offering a bespoke puzzle that unlocked an ingredient, a slice of pizza, and a clue to the next location. One controversial rule kept the stakes high: every wrong answer added a slice of pineapple to the pizza.
I made the whole thing from scratch, spanning narrative, craft, and code. Using LLMs, I built an interactive WhatsApp bot to narrate the game in the voice of historian Alessandro Barbero. I designed the physical props and D&D-style combat mechanics, and produced custom cinematics with Google Veo. The game ended on a twist: winning the "lost recipe book" only to find the recipe was really a collection of memories, and the last missing ingredient was the player himself.
