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  • Polishing phase

    Polishing phase

    Hello there, Today I won’t be long! I just write a quick post to keep you informed about the beginning of the polishing stage of the game. For those of you who don’t know, the “polish” stage consists in taking every aspect of the game (graphics, audio, music, gameplay, dialogs, controls, …), which until now…

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  • 99 % playable –  First milestone!

    99 % playable – First milestone!

    Finally! After more than 3 years of work, I’ve reached a point where the whole main quest of the game is playable. I’ve fully tested it before the Christmas holidays and it took me about 4 hours to speed run the game. Generally speaking, people playing my game take between 1.5 & 3 times longer…

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  • Capitole du Libre

    Capitole du Libre

    Hi there! Just a quick post to tell you I’ll be at the “Capitole du Libre” on November 19th and 20th at the ENSEEIHT of Toulouse. I’ll make a workshop/live demo about how to use Blender and Krita to create video game assets on Sunday 20th at 14:00. I’ll show how to model and texture…

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  • Blender Conf 2016

    Blender Conf 2016

    Maybe you’ve already seen it from my twitter account, but I’ll be at the Blender Conf this week. I’ll talk about how I use Blender for my video game. The talk is planned at 14:00 on October 28th, here’s a summary: https://www.blender.org/conference/2016/presentations/244 Don’t hesitate to come and have a chat if you’re nearby! Maybe there will…

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  • Pollution on the Great Sea

    Pollution on the Great Sea

    Hi there, It’s been a long time since I last posted a (more or less) technical article. So today, I’ll talk about something I recently added to the game: polluted water. The polluted water ring on the Great Sea I – What is polluted water? It’s very simple: it’s some kind of dark water that…

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  • 3 years of work…

    3 years of work…

    Hi everyone, It’s been (almost) 3 years since I started to work on “A Thief’s Melody”. Now could be the time to check how it’s going on. So here’s what’s currently playable: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Secondary quests Beware, 100% playable does not mean finished! I still have quite…

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  • Presentation in Junior High School

    Presentation in Junior High School

    Hi, Last week, I went to a Junior High School to present my everyday job: video game creation. So, once again, I share with you the PDF file (in French…): Thanks a lot to the organisation team, and to every person who attended the presentation!

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  • Next events

    Next events

    Hi! This November month is extremely busy! For people who want to know more about the game or how I create it, you can find me at the following Events: Toulouse Game Dev meeting November 18th at 19h at Etincelle Coworking (Toulouse) https://www.facebook.com/events/156203508066244/ Free Entrance! I’ll talk about the challenge of creating a video game,…

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  • Patreon!

    Patreon!

    Here a quick post, but an important one! For those of you who want to financially support me, I can now say that it is possible through my brand new patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/oneiricworlds?ty=h For those of you who don’t know, Patreon is a website where you can support many creators (youtubers, musicians, artists, comics authors…)…

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  • After the PAGS

    After the PAGS

    Hello, You might already know about it, but I’ve done my first real video game show/exhibition! It was very nice to meet so many passionate people! I know it was a month ago, but I wanted to share info about it! The Pau Anime Game Show I was a bit stressed about how people would…

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  • Pau Anime Game Show

    Pau Anime Game Show

    Hi there, Just a quick post to tell that I’ll be at the Pau Anime Game Show (PAGS) in Pau (France) this week end. Don’t hesitate to come in the Indie Zone and have a chat or test the demo! More info about the PAGS here: http://www.pags-pau.fr/ See you soon!  

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  • Finally a trailer!

    Finally a trailer!

    Hi! Finally! I took the time to create a trailer to showcase the game. It took me quite some time, but first I had to work on the game to have something to show! So here it is: I hope you’ll like it! Don’t hesitate to share it if you want to help.  

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  • Greenlit & Presentation in Paris

    Greenlit & Presentation in Paris

    Hello, Here’s a quick post to tell you about 2 things. I – Greenlit First, I’ve recently been greenlit on Steam! This is a very recomforting news for me, as it provides me a great online platform to distribute my game. For the record, I submitted my game to Steam Greenlight one year ago, and,…

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  • “World of Thieves” becomes “A Thief Melody”

    “World of Thieves” becomes “A Thief Melody”

    Hi there! It’s been a while since the last post… I must post more often! I – New Name OK so the first and main news is that World of Thieves (which was a temporary name… ) will now be known as Yes! This will be the new official logo/title of the game. I spent…

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  • Presentation in secondary school

    Presentation in secondary school

    Hi there, This is just a quick post to share a little presentation I made in a secondary school to introduce the job of “game developer” to young guys between 11 et 15 years old. By the way, thanks a lot to my friend Mathieu for inviting me and thanks also to his colleague Richard!…

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  • Game communities and vote!

    Game communities and vote!

    Hello everybody! I just post a quick news to tell you that World of Thieves is now visible on Indie DB and Steam Greenlight communities, and if you want to help, now is the time 🙂 Game Communities? For those of you who don’t know, these are the most active indie game communities on the…

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  • The indie life 2

    The indie life 2

    It’s a bit difficult to keep the motivation this week, so here’s another little comic about how I spend my days. It’s not that obvious to track bugs…

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  • The Indie life

    The Indie life

    An old little comic I made when I started to create my game… I originally wanted to create a few strips like this one to share what I do in another way than technical articles. Maybe I’ll do more of these in the future. Maybe some of you already saw this on my deviant art…

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  • Mail subscription problem

    Mail subscription problem

    Hi, It seems that there is a problem with the mail subscription. This post is just a temporary test to solve the problem. You can still try the demo and give me a feedback to improve it 🙂 Peace!

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  • Let’s play

    Let’s play

    Hello! On this blog I’ll try to post various information about video game creation while I am designing my own. Hopefully this will help someone somewhere! I will share my experience in art creation, software development, marketing issues, and point to resources that I think are useful. See you! PS: Of course no, I won’t…

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