Luc Bernard

Luc Bernard
Born	(1986-03-26) 26 March 1986 (age 39)
Occupation	Game designer
Notable work	Fortnite Holocaust Museum

Luc Bernard is a French-Jewish^[1]game designer who created video games such as The Light in the Darkness, Death Tales, Eternity's Child, Mecho Wars, Desert Ashes, Plague Road, Pocket God vs Desert Ashes and SteamPirates. He is also the founder of Voices of the Forgotten, a non-profit organization that develops educational projects focused on Holocaust remembrance and Jewish history through digital media.^[2]

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.^[3][4] In 2023, he released The Light in the Darkness, a free educational video game which chronicles the life of a Polish-Jewish family in Vichy France, interspersed with educational material on the hardships French Jews faced during the regime.^[5] The project evolved from an earlier unreleased concept titled Imagination Is the Only Escape,^[6] which also explored the Holocaust in France.

Bernard is also leading the Anne Frank's Young Voices project, a collaboration between Anne Frank LA and Voices of the Forgotten, inspired by the Holocaust Museum in Fortnite. The program trains and supports students in designing their own virtual Holocaust museums within Fortnite.^[7] A pilot launched in December 2024 in the Los Angeles Unified School District, designed to encourage students to engage with Holocaust history through interactive storytelling.^[8]

Bernard is currently developing Tears of Libya, a historical narrative game focusing on the experiences of Libyan Jews during World War II.^[9]

Games

Bernard's first video game was the platformer Eternity's Child.

Kitten Squad, which he directed for PETA, was released in 2016.^[10]

The Light in the Darkness teaches players about the Holocaust and portrays the experience of persecuted Jews in France.^[11]

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.^[12] When Bernard was 18, he infiltrated a French neo-Nazi street gang to spy on their activities before reporting them to local authorities.^[12]

References

1. "Luc Bernard". The Algemeiner. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
2. "Our Team – Voices of the Forgotten". Voices of the Forgotten. Voices of the Forgotten. 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. "'The Light in the Darkness' Creator Shares How His Video Game Can Educate People About the Holocaust". Variety. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
6. Webb, Conrad Duncan (2 February 2022). "Light in the Darkness: Holocaust game will be first on Xbox to tackle genocide". The Independent. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
7. Meyer, Simone (March 17, 2025). "Epic Games partners with the Anne Frank Center in a pilot program for Holocaust education". The Daily Gamecock. Retrieved June 21, 2025.
8. "Anne Frank's Young Voices". Voices of the Forgotten. Voices of the Forgotten. 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
9. "Tears of Libya". Voices of the Forgotten. Voices of the Forgotten. 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
10. "PETA's Video Games Are Making Animal Rights Fun".
11. "A new video game educates young people about the Holocaust". The Economist. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
12. Laura, Parker (31 August 2016). "Inside Controversial Game That's Tackling the Holocaust". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 3 April 2024.