THE FESTIVAL

Hugo Terra is an author and videographer. He can be heard on Game Next Door on YouTube and Loop for Gamekult.com, two broadcasts devoted to analysing game design and the video game culture. He also hosts the Fin Du Game podcast.

Member of the 2019 Indie Game Contest jury 

Round Table « Which future for the Open Worlds ?» (Thursday 19th September at 19:30 at Shadok)

Co-founder of Game Next Door, a YouTube broadcast that deals with various aspects of video games, and of the Loop review section of Gamekult, Maxime’s also a presenter at Fin Du Game, a podcast that analyses a game in its entirety: development context, influences and intentions.

Member of the 2019 Indie Game Contest jury 

Round Table « Which future for the Open Worlds ?» (Thursday 19th September at 19:30 at Shadok)

Maëlle Holtzer is strategy game designer for the Tap4Fun studio and a videographer. Under the pseudonym Miss Myu, she analyses what goes into a video game and tries to apply her findings to her own games on which she is working.

Member of the 2019 Indie Game Contest jury 

Jehanne Rousseau has worked in video games for 20 years, first as a graphic artist and then as a project leader, with games on Gameboy, home consoles and PCs, before co-founding the Spiders studio in 2008. Her most recent project is Greedfall.

Member of the 2019 Indie Game Contest jury 

Round Table « Which future for the Open Worlds ?» (Thursday 19th September at 19:30 at Shadok)

Game designer at Ubisoft between 2001 and 2002 (he worked on the game XIII), Sébastien Genvo is a Professor at the University of Lorraine and the first one to have defended a PhD on videogames in France (2006). He is currently the manager of the Expressive Gamelab, dedicated to the study of videogames as an expressive medium. He actually supervises a Master’s program on ludification. In 2011, he designed the free indie game Keys of a Gamespace, which received many praises from critics, being called “one of the best 12 Free Games of 2011” by the British newspaper The Telegraph. His next game, Lie in my heart, will deal with sensitive topics such as suicide awareness and mental illness. It will be released on October 4th.

Round Table « Which future for the Open Worlds ?» (Thursday 19th September at 19:30 at Shadok)

Director, screenwriter and producer of Dutch origin, Jan Kounen graduated from the French School of Decorative Arts. He directed in 1997 his first feature film, “Dobermann” with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. Followed “Blueberry” (2004) and documentaries inspired by his travels in South America and learning of shamanism. In 2007 he directed the film “99 francs”, adapted from the novel by Frédéric Beigbeder, with Jean Dujardin and Jocelyn Quivrin (Raimu Award for best director). In 2009, he directed “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” which made the closing of the Cannes Film Festival that same year. He is currently developing three films in Virtual Reality.

Master Class abou the VR experience Ayahuasca : Kosmik Journey (Saturday 21st September at 16:00 at Shadok)