French studio Awaceb’s game “Tchia” on the up and up
Building on its success on PS4 and PS5 since its release on PlayStation Plus, “Tchia’’ invites players to an open-world adventure largely inspired by New Caledonia, homeland of its developers. Its game director Phil Crifo, who also co-founded the studio Acaweb, discusses the challenges of making it.
The largest European video game trade show returns for its 15th edition at the Koelnmesse in Cologne. The CNC will attend the event from August 20-22, to promote the video game industry and present the Game France label. The program includes conferences, previews, and professional meetings.
How do you adapt a video game for the screen?
What makes a successful video game adaptation? Should you take on board all the codes of gaming or move away from them? And what about French know-how in this particular field? We asked Pascal Charrue, co-founder of the animation studio Fortiche Production (the Arcane - League of Legends series) and Anthony Roux, founder of the Ankama studio and director of the Dofus film and the Wakfu series.
The CNC at the Game Developers Conference
The international event for game developers will take place from March 18th to 22nd in San Francisco. The CNC will be present to highlight French studios as well as the Game France label.
Dordogne, the story behind a watercolour video game
Dordogne is like nothing else. Drawn in watercolour, the game from the studio Un Je Ne Sais Quoi (associated with Umanimation) tells the story of Mimi, a young woman of 32 whose grandmother has just passed away. She travels to her house in the Dordogne to evoke memories of the last summer she spent there when she was 12, and where a number of riddles have left behind by Mimi's grandmother for the player to solve. Developed by a team of over thirty people, Dordogne is the brainchild of Cédric Babouche, founder of Un Je Ne Sais Quoi and director and artistic director of numerous animated films: "I was thinking about how to tell stories in a way other than through cinema and television. I also wanted to have much more control over the narrative and be less dependent on the choices of broadcasters. What video games offer are precisely that, a total freedom. Alongside founder and CEO of Umanimation, Aymeric Castaing, he takes a look back at the genesis of Dordogne and the interest it has generated among foreign audiences.
French productions shine at The Game Awards 2022
The video game Stray, developed by Montpellier-based BlueTwelve Studio, won two awards at the ceremony held in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 8.
Record number of French nominees at The Game Awards, the “Oscars of gaming’’
The Game Awards ceremony – regarded as the Oscars for video games – will reward the best games of 2022 on December 8, in Los Angeles, California. After Deathloop, crowned Best Art Direction last year, France returns with six nominated works – a record – including two in the Game of the Year category.
“Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope”: how was the new Ubisoft game developed?
The mascots of Nintendo and French video game giant Ubisoft are joining forces once again for this second turn-based strategy game, which was developed entirely by Ubisoft's Paris and Milan studios. A unique collaboration between the French video game giant's European subsidiaries, as told by Xavier Manzanares (producer at Ubisoft Paris) and Cristina Nava (senior associate producer at Ubisoft Milan).
“Arcane”: the made-in-France streaming series wins Best Animated program at the Emmys
Produced by the Parisian studio Fortiche, the series was awarded the Best Animated program Emmy at the Creative Arts ceremony. Nominated five times, it picked up four awards, including Best Animated series.