Hello! My name's Andrea Giannino but I usually present myself just as Shino.

A passion for videogames and, generally, art and brainworks |
I've been into videogames since I was a little fanboy of Nintendo games, with the Nintendo 64 as my very first console.
"When I'm an adult, I want to create games!" was my first statement!

While waiting to become an adult (if there is a real line to surpass to become one..) I've been doing several forms of art from writing novels, essays, dramaturgical pieces and blog posts about travels and music; I'm a drawer as well and a fan of stickmen; I produce music for a long time and at first thought I wanted to get into the VG industry as a composer.

A new path to follow |
I shifted my focus, getting closer to the writing path more than anything else, founding affinities by creating lores, writing stories, and dialogues, doing research on what makes a game user-friendly and potentially captivating to the players and, above all, I discovered again the joy of creating games starting from a blank paper.

Writing and GX/UX, then Game Design starting with some card game |
I'm already experimenting with game design by creating a narrative card game that takes inspiration from the aesthetic of tarots and applies the concept of "symbols=concept" to create an always dynamic game session where there's a master who guides the player or players through their journey in search of a story to build and tell.

In parallel, I'm also writing the lore behind my card game, telling an ancient legend of an almost-forgotten guild of oneyronauts and their never-ending purpose of journeying around people's dreams in order to understand the human equation, and their emotions better, and gathering always a lesson to save for the future.

Thank You for Your time.