Behind DaDeep
My name is Luis Barquero Lanti, also known as Luigi. I am a programmer and the creator of DaDeep. As a child I wondered how video games were made; I eventually traded my console for a computer to learn programming.
DaDeep grew from a passion for adventure games, drawing, writing and programming. Today its mission is centred on reading.
My name is Luis Barquero Lanti, also known as Luigi. I am a programmer and the creator of DaDeep. As a child I wondered how video games were made; I eventually traded my console for a computer to learn programming.
The first story player took shape in 2019, and the adventure creator began development in late 2020. The project grew out of a desire to imagine and share interactive stories without having to code them.
The original tool was used by several schools despite not being designed specifically for them. That experience helped reveal another direction for DaDeep: adventures where reading, comprehension and imagination come first.
Our current goal is easy to explain and hard to achieve well: help children want to read because they want to play. No grand promises. Just stories worth discovering.