Crafting memorable games

With jobs ranging from design to production, in companies such as Blizzard, Cyanide, Big Bad Wolf, Ubisoft and his latest role as Studio Creative Director within Eden Games, Sylvain thrives to build a dream team that will craft a landmark in gaming and set new genre standards with memorable games.

Interests – Neurobiology– what's really happening upthere ?

Hobbies – When not gaming: Paragliding, rockclimbing, and trying to cook new funky stuff

Fun Fact – A passion for wearing dress shirts

They worked mainly as a 3C Designer in early prototypes and in live operations for Racing games at Ubisoft. Charlie has been passionate about games as a whole since childhood, and now they are finally working in their true passion.

Interests – Music (especially fusion between Metal and Electro), Comics, Cooperation Games

Hobbies – Lightsaber Choreography, Make up, Cosplay crafting, TTRPG & TCG

Fun fact – They have a really weird cat they want to show to everyone

Amaury started his career in game development as an environment artist until he realized how much building and managing creative teams to craft something bigger was fun and exciting. He then went on endorsing many creative roles over an impressive 16 years of experience. Over his career, Amaury has worked on several projects as an Art & Game Director, and been involved on some major franchises like Test Drive Unlimited and WRC.

Interests – All kinds of art forms, chocolate and dinosaurs

Hobbies – Trying to grow something on his garden, trekking around the world (to find dinosaurs obviously)

Fun fact – No one actually knows his real face as he has never completely shaved for 20 years

She moved to Sweden where she has been a Senior Producer for Contraband, a AAA game published by Microsoft. She worked across many specialties including VFX, Lighting, Tech Art, Feature Gameplay, Level Design (and Art), World Design (and Art) and more…

Interests – Traveling across Europe, tasting food and craft beer from different cities, asian cuisine

Hobbies – Playing heavy narrative-based games, watching the Australian Football League, going to art museums

Fun fact – Before she decided to become a producer, she studied Fashion and still like to sew a lot of her own clothes!

Marin studied programming before joining an art school to learn animation. His focus quickly shifted from animated movies to videogames, one of his long-time passions. He has always loved learning new skills, trying out new tools and tinkering with a whole lot of things.

Interests - Weird movies and music, subjecting his friends to said weird movies and music (especially 70s and 80s horror movies with over-the-top practical effects)

Hobbies - Manga, museums, and video games. Would love to add working out to the list but isn't quite there yet

Fun fact - Marin once raced at the site of the Ancient Olympic Games and won (against his dad and sister, but it still counts!)

Originally studying humanities and performing arts, Nina eventually became a developer out of passion for video games and computer science. She has been studying programming at the 42 School in Paris since 2019. Video games have always been of source of excitement for her, and she thinks it’s only fair to give back all the joy she received through them.

Interests – Video games, their design, dramaturgy in the broadest sense possible (how stories are told)

Hobbies – Playing games (alone or with friends), hiking in the mountains and enjoying the actual breath of the wild

Fun fact – Her hair turned red from eating chili pepper every meal (probably)

Charles started as game designer in the serious games industry, before joining Ubisoft where he led the mobile user research team. Passionate about crafting games, he went on leading the design team at Eden Games for a F1 racing game published by Electronic Arts. Over his career, Charles has worked on a wide range of games such as first person shooters, racing games, hack'n'slash and MOBAs, from prototypes to live operations.

Interests – Sci-Fi and Fantasy literature, history of science - how do we know the things we know??

Hobbies – When not playing games: Gunpla modelling, listening to jazz and trip-hop music, cooking (and eating!)

Fun fact – Used to be mistaken for Rafael Nadal when he was a teenager

She also worked at Mighty Rocket Studio on a beat'em all called Final Exam. Finally, she has a background in the audiovisual field, directing short films for children in 2D animation for cinema, and animating 3D series.

Interests – old point-and-click and turn-by-turn RPGs. She’s very keen on Warhammer 40K and Dan Abnett books

Hobbies – reading and writing SFFF, video games, board and role-playing games with family, as much as messing up recipes

Fun fact – Every plant that enters her house sees its life expectancy drop drastically. Even cactus

Rémi started working in the game industry about 15 years ago. His career led him to various studios like Ubisoft, Amplitude Studios (Sega) and Gameloft. He had the opportunity to work on very different types of games such as third-person shooters, strategy games or sports games for mobiles, PC and consoles.

Interests – Sci-fi literature, video games and everything related to Japan where he travelled many times.

Hobbies – Playing video games, of course, cooking, but most importantly, spending time with his family.

Fun fact – When he was a bit younger (and had more hair), Remi was often told to look like the actor Jim Parsons, Sheldon actor in The Big Bang Theory!

Tristan, with a 13-year career in level design, contributed to games like Deathloop, Technomancer, and Styx 1 & 2. He's skilled in developing productivity tools and specializes in prototyping new game mechanics due to his programming expertise.

Interests – All kinds of films, from B-movies to blockbusters. Walking through cities to discover their architecture and nooks and crannies. Anything related to video game development.

Hobbies – Sports every day and too much time in front of YouTube. Lots of audacious culinary experiments.

Fun fact – Can do one-armed pull-ups and always get up before 7 am no matter how tired and at what time he went to bed!

Lucas got given the opportunity to work with Pearl Abyss as a Principal Environment Artist on a yet undisclosed title. He always knew he enjoyed creating visual stories but he didn't have a clue it would have brought him to game development. Lucas love it because it gives him an opportunity to make some of his visions come to life within immersive and thriving environments.

Love – Hitman franchise (hitman 2 holds a special place in his heart), Inside and cyberpunk 2077 for how visually striking it was.

Hobbies – Drawing, video editing, making & playing games and watching horror movies

Fun fact – He has been a featured DJ for a couple of online shows and still need to find the motivation to try and get booked on a live event once.