Valentin Serri

narrative designer @sloclap | exploring desirable futures in games 💬 worked on Red Sails ⛵ former dontnod and asmodee digital (opinions are my own)

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

🫶 announcement 🫶

🎙️ my @narrascope talk ‘Building a Desirable Future is Not an Individual Heroic Effort’ is now up on youtube!

want to hear about the collective mind and the narrative tools to propose post-capitalist futures?

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https://t.co/ZwRWD642AD

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[Assoupi 💾 MainFrames @_assoupi]

MAINFRAMES IS OUT NOW

It’s cute ✨
It’s fun 💾
it’s weird 🧙

PLAY IT NOW

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

ce vendredi à l’occasion des Enjmin Game Conferences, je donnerai une conférence sur le thème comme élément fondateur du world building et participerai à une table ronde sur la création de petits jeux 🎙️📚 🌐

[Y/CJ/Y @YCJYgames]

Keep Driving, our management RPG about life on the open road, is OUT NOW! [on Steam]

🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting
💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system
🔧 Strategic resource management
👋 Pick up folks along the way
🚗 You’re young, you have time…

🎵Sound on!🎵

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

prepping a new talk atm🫣 good occasion to share the talk i gave at @narrascope; it’s about desirable futures in games: brief overview of how capitalist realism manifests in games and what narrative tools we can use to go beyond conservatism and escapism https://t.co/wyuzRzni3M

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

i’m there too, feel free to follow 🌞

[A MAZE. @AMazeFest]

Don't forget to submit your work for the 2025 A MAZE. Awards by January 31st! 🦩🏆

Register here:
https://t.co/19lSEemcJk

#AMazeAwards #AMaze2025

[Wednesdays @Oujevipo]

You were right! Wednesdays mostly looks and feels like a visual novel. BUT...

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

🙇 thanks for reading! and here’s a link to INVISIBLE MOUTH itch io page: https://t.co/HusIiSLzIe

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

simplicity and elegance of theatre set design

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

and of course, a bit cliché but expressionist movies were a great source of inspiration for shapes and contrast

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

🎨 Pierre Soulages, light work in dark setting

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

no tops or whatsoever this year for me: i just wanted to make a tiny post-mortem of INVISIBLE MOUTH, the tiny game i’ve crafted for @AMazeFest game jam in 2024 ⛓️‍💥🏙️
#gamedev #gamejam #indiedev

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

🎞️📚 Sin City, for the shadow work and lighting acting as a narrative device

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

🎨 Giorgio De Chirico, for the shadow work and the ethereal beauty of the settings

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

photos of the Tate Modern for the big rays of light piercing through the building

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

✨ next are some of my inspirations to create the city of INVISIBLE MOUTH:

📸 Ernst Haas, his street photography work on american cities and contrast

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

i guess it somehow was about reclaiming my love for the craft and not only selling it as my workforce

it was also a good excuse to mark the occasion of my first @AMazeFest and display my game in a space full of radical and experimental artistic expression! 🫶

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

in my actual narrative design role, i don’t have many occasions to get my hands in the engine… so, achieving a small game alone at that time was also some kind of proof to myself that i still can express myself artistically, alone, within this interactive medium

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

working on a big scale game is daunting, especially when it pursues a commercial goal 📈 and in most cases, you can’t fully express yourself, especially when you pursue some kind of radicality!

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

when working on this projet, i felt it was doing me good 🧖
i’ve been musing a bit on how important this was for me to work alone on this project as a full-time video game worker integrated in the ✨industry✨

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

time to wrap it up, a bit of digital music composing, a bit hard to find my voice in there so i went full atmospheric long synth waves, no loop, just a +10min long music 💆

still wanted to polish a few things, fix bugs, and integrate UI for the title page, but time ran too fast

[Valentin Serri @Khipow]

the atmosphere and the game feel were getting good, it was time to set myself on writing! main guideline was: enjoy yourself 💆 then i added one small restriction: 4 lines maximum!

🤜 punchy lines that would highlight the characters motivations to resist and protect their city