Articles
Original papers
My articles. My own. My precious.
Know your player and know yourself
What the 4 Domains of Play can do for you
# Motivational player profiling, Pleasures of play
Ecosystèmes Narratifs
Un nouveau modèle de narration interactive pour le jeu vidéo
# Interactive storytelling, narrative puzzle
How to bring together player's autonomy and a pre-authored plot line? Narrative ecosystems are designed to support emergent but meaningful stories, reactive to the player's interactions with the gameworld.
Game reviews
I joined the budding team of Ludovox critics in early 2015. Our mission was to help readers to recognize out of the multitude the games fit for them, while providing for an easy and pleasant read.
With these goals in mind, I chose to keep my reviews short. I cut on the explanation of game systems in order to focus on the dynamics of play. In order to prevent routine and add extra flavor, I usually write with exotic points-of-view or insert mini-games into the article.
Reviews in French only.
Traductions
From 2005 to 2011, I translated a selection of papers for the PTGPTB webzine (Place To Go, People To Be). Dedicated to good old pen-and-paper roleplaying games, most of these articles discuss their potential as a narrative medium.
The links below lead to the french translation by my hand to these articles. From there, you'll find another link to the original source.
Where Stories end and games begin
by Greg Costykian
Game and story aren't like oil and water. There's a whole continuum linking these extremes together.
Reifying genre conventions
by John H. Kim
If you want your players to follow a genre's conventions, then make up a rule about it.
The Crunchy Bits #2: "Hell, there are no rules here! We're trying to accomplish something"
by Emily Dresner-Thornber
Square away your ideas before you get bogged down into the creative process: concept, synopsis, plan.
Uncertainty and exclusivity
by T.S. Luikart
How to make your characters unique and your magic still worth its salt?
The Character Sheet is not your Friend
by Steve Darlington
Your character sheet holds everything there is to know about your character. Too bad you're the only one reading it.