Space Backyard Information

“Space Backyard” is an independent creative crew made up of Alessandro Arcidiacono, Simone Tranchina, Maddalena Grattarola and Gianluca Pandolfo. We're constantly searching for amazing life stories that we like to share in a unique way through videogames and visual arts. Early history Co-founders Simone and Alessandro met when they were both working in a big video game company as 3D and 2D artists. Their common passions for visual arts and for freedom took them to start working together on their own independent projects once left the company. They are currently working on their first videogame: Ludmilla. Meantime on our planet... While working on the development of Ludmilla they enter the Watermelon A MAZE Game Jam 2017 with a small video game, made in five days, but with a long title "The story of the revolutionary watermelon that wanted to live free as a bird and learned how to escape". In the game the player controls a watermelon let it jumping through out its freedom. Few months later they took part at the GameHappens Festival in their hometown, Genova, bringing to the showcase that game with a custom made controller, a real watermelon where the players are required to slap it to control the video game.