Writing Portfolio – (3 min read)

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Table of Contents

• Publications & Awards
• Medium Profile
• Fiction Writing
• Screenwriting
• Video Game Writing
• Article & Academic Writing
• Other projects

Publications & Awards

• Forsaken: a science-fiction short story, featured on The Elixir Magazine.
• Like Any Other Day: a voice experiment, featuring a little child lost in a familiar world. Published on The Elixir Magazine.
• Bad Harvest: dystopian sci-fi short story, shortlisted for the Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Prize 2019.

Medium Articles

• Medium Profile: a collection of my self-published Medium articles. Most of them have been cross-published on this website as well, with or without minor modifications and edits.

• 5 Reasons Why Scrivener is better than Word: a listicle about Scrivener tailored for writers, now standing at almost 1000 views on Medium.
• Toy Story – The Beauty of Growing Up: a reflection on the first three Toy Story movies, a metaphor for growing up and dealing with change.
• Here’s what NieR: Automata and video games have taught me about empathy: an experiment blending music and article writing, to describe the beauty of NieR: Automata and video game experiences in general.
• Final Fantasy XV’s Story Feels Like Wasted Potential: a reflection on Final Fantasy XV‘s storytelling, weighing in best features and flaws of the game’s narrative aspect.

Fiction Writing

• The Swansong & Other Stories: a collection of short stories about love, loss, and sacrifice. This website features three of them:
  • The Swansong – “Following a mystical moment with a beautiful animal, Evelyn is struggling to find her place in the world. After facing a big loss, she will have to learn the value of sacrifice.”
  • The Two Hedgehogs – “Wolfe Doireann is a veteran of the First War of Scottish Independence, forced to face his nostalgic past by a magical amulet that links him to his beloved.”
  • The Untamable Heart – “Is there a more frightening pain than the one of love? Anthony, the main character of this story, will be forced to seek the answer to this question, through the clues left by the dark story of a young boy.”

• Lilith: Goddess of Love and Shadows – “The Dark Era of mankind was rising with war, battles, and injustice. Then, Lilith came; and the journey of a young man to see her would mark the future of his race forever.”
• Shadow of the Wanderer (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a short story based on Shadow of the Colossus, second chapter in the Ico trilogy.
• The Last Call of the Wyvern (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a short story based on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt.

Screenwriting Projects

• The Phantom Particle (La Particella Fantasma): Italian, dramatic short film directed and commissioned by William G. Lombardo.
• IUDOR (The Inevitable Ups and Downs of Reliability): an animated short film directed by Guillaume A. Tissier.

Video Game Writing

• Apprentice Arriving: Fantasy-RPG game featuring complex, branching narrative and loads of exploration.

Article Writing & Non-Fiction

• Independents’ Day: a case study/feature article about Failbetter Games and the #LoveIndies Week social campaign.
• Ars Ludica: The Art of Video Games (first hosted on I Love Videogames): a thorough analysis of the video game medium as a form of art.

Other projects

• Good Pizza, Great Pizza – Game Localisation: The author was hired through Upwork to help complete the localisation files for “Good Pizza, Great Pizza”, a popular mobile game, soon coming to Windows and Steam.