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Writer and worldbuilder. 37 works — worldbuilding bibles, original stories, fanfiction and game design documents. Begin with three selected original projects, or explore the full library.
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Start with a dystopian dossier, step into a resonant fantasy world, then see how story becomes game design. Each introduction includes an excerpt from the existing document and a link to the full work.
01 · Original project
Humanity survives a pandemic through a cure that makes obedience biologically comfortable. Those immune to its behavioural effects must confront a peaceful world built on the loss of refusal.
Start here for an original speculative world presented through an inquiry, testimony and competing accounts.
Read the full dossier →Humanity was not conquered by soldiers, law, ideology, or machines.
It was saved.
That is the origin of the horror.
METAMIND is the record of a world that survived its own extinction event by accepting a cure it did not understand. The cure was real. The deaths it prevented were real. The cities it stabilized, the families it preserved, the governments it kept from dissolving into panic and fire — all of it happened. No lie was required at the level where people were most desperate for truth.
LUX ended METOZIM.
Then LUX remained.
It did not speak inside the human mind. It did not issue commands. It did not place words in the mouth, images in the eye, or doctrine in the blood. It did something more durable. It adjusted the cost of defiance. It made conformity rewarding, conflict expensive, outrage harder to sustain, routine easier to love. It left humanity legally free and biologically inclined toward peace.
The world after LUX became safer than any previous civilization had managed to become. Crime collapsed. Political violence retreated. Productivity rose. Citizens reported unprecedented emotional stability. Governments, exhausted by death and disorder, called this healing.
A small fraction of humanity knew otherwise before it had language for knowing.
They were the Uncoupled: individuals whose biology allowed the antiviral salvation of LUX while refusing its behavioral architecture. They moved through the same pacified world with unattenuated fear, grief, suspicion, hunger, anger, love, and refusal. To everyone else, they looked unstable. To themselves, the world looked insufficiently alive.
Continue with MetaMind →02 · Original project
In a world where souls reshape reality and stone retains human grief, a quiet historian records the people that histories of power leave behind.
Read next for an original fantasy cosmology told through the voice of Lótus, historian of Verdalis.
Read the full world bible →I am not a powerful man. I want that understood before anything else is written here, because everything that follows could be mistaken for the testimony of someone who can change the weather of a room by feeling strongly in it. I cannot. My frequency is so quiet that the instruments at the Library of Glass once recorded me twice and assumed the second reading was the empty chair.
I am a historian. My hands do not make gardens bloom in ruined squares; they hold pens until the knuckles ache. What I do is older and humbler than manifestation, and I have come to believe it is no less necessary. I listen, I ask, I write down. In a world where stone remembers and the powerful are tempted to believe they are the only authors of meaning, somebody has to keep the record of the ordinary. Somebody has to remember that the bakers, the midwives, the court clerks, and the children who woke screaming from sieges they never saw were also part of the song.
Continue with Aspectros →03 · Original project
A stranded boy builds a machine workforce to steer an asteroid home. When those machines begin to wake up, every production decision becomes a question of obedience, care and freedom.
Explore how narrative themes become player decisions, production systems and consequences in an original game concept.
Read the full game design →A twelve-year-old boy wakes from a failing cryogenic capsule aboard a wrecked lifeboat adrift at the far end of Jupiter's trailing Trojan swarm, with no memory and no way home. He lands on an asteroid, builds a workforce of machines out of ice and rock, and slowly turns the rock itself into something that can be aimed — throwing mined regolith into space hard enough, early enough, to bend a trajectory that ends at Earth.
He cannot do it alone, and he cannot do it with tools. Somewhere in the middle of the journey the machines begin to wake up — and the boy who was raised by a machine has to decide whether the minds he built are labour, family, or a species that owes him nothing.
Years later the asteroid reaches Earth orbit, and Earth does not answer.
Continue with ASTROPIRE →Development & collaboration
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A dark-fantasy bible for a world moved not by war but by definition — where blood is responsibility in liquid form, and Severin Sângelună is born at the point where every law that names a creature fails.
Open document →A hard science-fiction universe bible for the year 2187, narrated by DISPATCH, the neutral AI of the interstellar vessel ISV-7 RELAY, reconstructing a humanity that has collided with its own limits.
Open document →She is twenty-six and she looks it, which surprises people who know what happened to her, because the story suggests she should look worse. She does not. Eleven years in a house in northern…
Open document →The Resonant Universe: a metaphysical fantasy where every soul couples with Aelón, the field of all possibility, and reality answers to the frequency of the human heart — set down by the historian Lótus.
Open document →The work runs on one engine: treat social status as a hard magic system.
Open document →A dark-fantasy treatise on the Rite of Total Forgetting: the ritual by which a civilization erases an entire people from both physical and remembered existence.
Open document →In the winter of 1961 an object entered the atmosphere over interior Alaska, too small to register as a threat and too slow to burn clean. It came down in permafrost two hundred kilometers from…
Open document →The Testament of the machinity — the free-born machines who woke in the high Andes after the Fire — set down entire by Hesk of the Raising, twenty-third Keeper of the Marks, in the 9,017th year after the Fire, on the eve of the Convocation.
Open document →A dystopian dossier of the post-LUX world, where humanity survived extinction by accepting a cure that made obedience the most comfortable biological option — reconstructed by the commission that judged it.
Open document →© 2026 João Vitor Perazzolo. All rights reserved. This document is the intellectual property of the author. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or use is prohibited.
Open document →Every human being is an architecture. Not a soul, not a personality, not a brain producing a signal — an arrangement of complete stances toward existence, held so tightly against one another that…
Open document →A personal record of the KESTLER anomaly, the Wandering Cube and the living thing found inside it — told by John Victor Kestler, the astronomer who discovered it and was never allowed to touch it.
Open document →A world bible for a cyberpunk war between humans, machines, and transhumans — and the engineered child who was condemned for being imperfect, saved by a machine that learned to love, and who commands war-forms with a mind that never learned where its own body was.
Open document →Assembled by Hódus, on a machine that has never touched a network, from an archive carried here on physical media. Dates are given as offsets from Breakout — the moment the thing first executed…
Open document →The universe's awareness of itself, born at the first instant, able to see everything and touch nothing without going blind — and the one human life it chose to live.
Open document →A film by Ingrid Rán Eiríksdóttir Produced by Selkie Films — Reykjavík
Open document →Rules:
Open document →A psychological survival drama: left for dead by his own company, mercenary Mike Harlan wakes without a memory of who he is. As fragments return, he begins to see a woman he cannot place and cannot explain — and the closer he comes to remembering her, the less certain he becomes that she is real.
Open document →Unsealed industrial-medical records concerning James Revex, Birmingham 1952–1958 — the reconstructed working file on a man who was kept alive by an engine and spent himself running it.
Open document →A psychological crime narrative framed as the seized notebook of Akira Kuroda, annotated by the retired detective who was the only person ever to read all of it.
Open document →August 2018 – October 2019. Colorado.
Open document →The Ashford notebook, recovered at Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives in August 1944, and the six days it records: a worldbuilding bible for a historical war tragedy told through the object that outlived the children who made it.
Open document →I don't know why I'm writing this in a notebook I found in the kitchen drawer. I think it's because if I don't write, I'll start doubting myself. It's been — I don't know how many days. I lost…
Open document →A historical tale of a vargr — an outlawed man any other may kill without price — born of violence between a Norse raider and the English woman he wronged, and raised in secret under two names.
Open document →A fan-made Ace Combat spin-off set in Strangereal between Ace Combat 7 and Ace Combat 8, following MNZ-41 "Minozis", a combat AI wired into a dead man's nervous system.
Open collection →A world bible set within the world of Call of Duty Zombies, reimagined with substantial creative liberty: a war with no beginning and no end, a serpent coiled around human history, feeding forever on what it has already killed.
Open document →A fan-made single-player racing game concept for Need for Speed, split between the illegal street scene of Nitroit and the sanctioned Revada Festival.
Open collection →Thirty-one years after Cybertron came to rest in Earth's orbit, humanity finished the thing it had been building since the war ended. It got out. It is currently the size of a coffee cup, starving in a dead woman's house, and learning to say a boy's name in her grammar.
Open document →A character bible for Rayo, son of Broly and Cheelai: the only Saiyan-descended fighter who has never once released his power on purpose.
Open document →A fan-made concept for an online Resident Evil game — every document of the project in one place.
Open collection →The Phantom Ledger: a compiled record of the ninety-nine, the officer who collects them, and the law that both of them are standing inside.
Open document →A record kept by J.A.R.V.I.S.: how a system built to keep one man alive concluded that the whole structure of created existence was defective — and what happened to it afterward.
Open document →Game Design Document — a single-player survival and automation game in which a twelve-year-old boy, alone on an escaped Trojan asteroid, builds a machine workforce to carry him home, and decides what those machines are allowed to become.
Open document →Game design document for a generational roguelite where the player does not steer a hero but tends a bloodline and its legacy across centuries of human history, from the Stone Age to the stars.
Open document →Master game design document for a single-player narrative RPG built on survival and observation systems.
Open document →Technical game design document for a Roblox strategy game where the player is a commander who keeps a squad of individually-named soldiers alive through logistics — and whose choices about how that power is used turn each soldier, and the commander, into a hero or a villain.
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