Luc Bernard
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Luc Bernard | |
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| Born | 26 March 1986 |
| Occupation | Game designer |
| Notable work | Fortnite Holocaust Museum |
Luc Bernard is a British game designer best known for creating the video games Death Tales, Eternity's Child, Mecho Wars, Desert Ashes, Plague Road, Pocket God vs Desert Ashes and SteamPirates. He is also known for Imagination Is The Only Escape which remains unreleased.
Bernard has created a number of video game projects regarding The Holocaust. He is perhaps most notable for being the creator of the Fortnite Holocaust Museum, a Virtual museum based inside the video game Fortnite which features displays of Nazi atrocities.[1][2] Earlier in 2023, he also released The Light in the Darkness, a free video game which chronicles the life of a Jewish family in Vichy France, interspersed with educational material on the hardships French Jews faced during the regime. One of his original games, the unreleased Imagination Is the Only Escape, also features the story of the Holocaust in France.
Games
Bernard's first video game was the platformer Eternity's Child.
Imagination Is The Only Escape, a game that deals with the Holocaust, has also courted controversy for its dark setting and subject matter.[3]
Kitten Squad which he directed for PETA was released in 2016[4]
Personal
Bernard is Jewish and an advocate for a number of Jewish causes. He was primarily raised by his maternally Jewish grandmother in England until the age of 10, when he moved to France.[5] When Bernard was 18, he joined a French neo-Nazi street gang to spy on their activities before reporting them to local authorities.[5]
References
- ^ Cascone, Sarah (10 August 2023). "The Opening of a New Virtual Holocaust Museum in Fortnite Has Been Delayed After White-Supremacist Nick Fuentes Rallied Antisemites to Attack It". Artnet News. Archived from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ Gillott, Hannah (3 August 2023). "Virtual Holocaust museum to be launched in Fortnite". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 9 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ Pappu, Sridhar (10 March 2008). "No Game About Nazis for Nintendo". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 July 2008.
- ^ "PETA's Video Games Are Making Animal Rights Fun".
- ^ a b Laura, Parker (31 August 2016). "Inside Controversial Game That's Tackling the Holocaust". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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