La Ricetta Perduta - IDEATION + PRODUCTION
2025, Personal Project
La Ricetta Perduta
A narrative-driven, mixed-reality escape game built around the search for a "lost recipe." The experience led the player on foot across London to unlock ingredients (and pizza slices) for a final dish, with a controversial twist: every wrong answer added a pineapple slice to the pizza.
I built the experience from scratch, spanning narrative, craft, and code. I leveraged LLMs to architect an interactive WhatsApp bot to serve as the game’s narrator, mimicking the specific voice and humour of historian Alessandro Barbero. The journey combined physical prop design, D&D combat mechanics, and custom cinematics generated via Google Veo. The game concluded with an emotional twist: opening a locked "recipe book" to reveal that the recipe was actually a collection of memories, and the secret ingredient was the player himself.
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A narrative-driven, mixed-reality escape game built around the search for a "lost recipe." The experience led the player on foot across London to unlock ingredients (and pizza slices) for a final dish, with a controversial twist: every wrong answer added a pineapple slice to the pizza.
I built the experience from scratch, spanning narrative, craft, and code. I leveraged LLMs to architect an interactive WhatsApp bot to serve as the game’s narrator, mimicking the specific voice and humour of historian Alessandro Barbero. The journey combined physical prop design, D&D combat mechanics, and custom cinematics generated via Google Veo. The game concluded with an emotional twist: opening a locked "recipe book" to reveal that the recipe was actually a collection of memories, and the secret ingredient was the player himself.
