R/O

09/03/2019

This is the perfect moment to celebrate women's work and place in the video game industry (as it should be everyday but, well...), a field still frigid if not "hostile" to gender equality. Today, we salute those who fight to lead their way to the top and to have their skills recognized, even if they've got no "joystick" down "there".
At the last MEET & BUILD, we succeeded in proposing a program where more of half of the talks were presented or co-presented by women. Let's hope it is just a beginning ! Hanna Fogelberg, Sophie Schiaratura, Lisa Schaeffer, Leigh Alexander, Cécile Fléchon, Pia-Victoria Jacqmart, Judicaelle Live Lune & Mylène Lourdel, you girls rock the (video games) world ! (To get sensible information about the women and video games industry issues, just check out Maria Kalash Twitter account - or the website womeningamesfrance.org )

26/02/2019

You know It. Storytelling is about following The Rules and the Holy 3-Acts thing. But so, why did Shakespeare write in 5 acts ? John Yorke (« Into the woods ») answered this brillantly (helped by Russel T Davies & John Truby) at VAF Story conference.

26/02/2019

What is a story ? Tricky question. Funny answer. Isn’t Paul Tyler the perfect host to introduce the VAF Story conference ? Yes, who else! (Not to mention this same Paul was one of R/O 2017 and 2018 sessions’ expert. But we’ll stay modest about this. Not true. We are proud as a peacock

20/02/2019

Being a transmedia incubator, R/O is of course « into » video games things. So, we followed closely the Program proposed by around it’s « Games and Politics » festival. Today is Olivier Bogarts’ conference about the subtle art of videogames (and the creative process in the Games industry). A tricky but oh so important question.

14/02/2019

Thursday, once again it’s happy (gaming) hour at ISELP’s Games & Politics festival. Exit the history side (explored from 1947 to nowadays) of the conferences session « histoire culturelle et politique du jeu vidéo » : this week, Julien Annart makes us dive in the political issues of video games.
The question is : is there a game which is NOT about politic ?

07/02/2019

Thursday, time for the weekly conference with « our » Julien Annart and his « histoire culturelle et politique du jeu vidéo », taking place during the Games & Politics festival ISELP . Today’s session - from 2008 to nowadays - is quite crowded and packed, proof, if needed, that the subject is highly followed. Let’s talk war, triple A and... poetry!

06/02/2019

Everything you need to know about Cécile Fléchon, Maria Kalash and their great and terrible talk :-D

Cécile "Maria Kalash" Fléchon gave a great talk at the Meet & Build #5 (taking place @ Charleroi, Quai10 on 17 nov.2018). Here's a short interview in which s...

31/01/2019

Third rendez-vous with « our » Julien Annart for the conferences « histoire culturelle et politique du jeu vidéo », taking place during the Games & Politics festival @ ISELP. It froze last week on a huge announce - the arrival of Half-Life. So It starts back today with this dramatic game (that, and the US army involvment.) 1998-2008... Let’s explore a decade full of changes (and Playstation2)! (Any resemblance between the speaker and the VVG pic is purely coincidental.)

25/01/2019

24/01/2019

Time for the 2nd round of the conferences by « our » Julien Annart, « histoire culturelle et politique du jeu vidéo », taking place during the Games & Politics festival @ ISELP. It ended last week by a tremandous cliffhanger - the 1983 crise. It begins today with a mystic awakening : Nintendo !