Luc Bernard Explained

Luc Bernard
Birth Date:1986 3, df=yes
Occupation:Game designer
Notable Works:Fortnite Holocaust Museum

Luc Bernard is a British game designer who created the video games Death Tales, Eternity's Child, Mecho Wars, Desert Ashes, Plague Road, Pocket God vs Desert Ashes and SteamPirates.

Bernard has created a number of video game projects related to The Holocaust. He created 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.

Bernard also created Imagination Is The Only Escape, which remains unreleased.

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 infiltrated a French neo-Nazi street gang to spy on their activities before reporting them to local authorities.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Cascone . Sarah . August 10, 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 . live . August 13, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230810155713/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nick-fuentes-attacks-holocaust-museum-fortnite-2347520 . August 10, 2023.
  2. News: Gillott . Hannah . August 3, 2023 . Virtual Holocaust museum to be launched in Fortnite . . live . August 13, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230809192619/https://www.thejc.com/news/news/virtual-holocaust-museum-to-be-launched-in-fortnite-51yR6RpobSfpHOpN7EiZ5z . August 9, 2023.
  3. News: No Game About Nazis for Nintendo. 2008-03-10 . 2008-07-22 . The New York Times . Sridhar . Pappu.
  4. Web site: PETA's Video Games Are Making Animal Rights Fun.
  5. News: Inside Controversial Game That’s Tackling the Holocaust. August 31, 2016 . April 3, 2024 . . Parker . Laura.