EVENT: FLORENT MAURIN (MARCH 25 2021, ONLINE)

TELLING A STORY THAT’S NOT YOURS

MARCH 25 2021/25 MARZO 2021

17:00 - 18:00, Online event

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

The world is full of interesting and important stories to tell, and The Pixel Hunt, the studio founded by Florent Maurin, firmly believes that video games can be an effective medium to tell them. But this comes with several challenges. One of the biggest ones is: how do you properly and respectfully tell a story that is not yours? Taking the example of The Pixel Hunt’s acclaimed Bury me, my Love, a video game about a young Syrian woman trying to reach Europe in search of a better life, Florent will try to explain the rules set by the designers and abode by in order to be a voice in service of the people who are directly concerned with international forced migrations.

Florent Maurin graduated from Lille's journalism school in 2002. He then worked for Bayard Presse for ten years, first as a reporter then as editorial manager for Bayam, the group’ online offer for kids. In parallel, he created The Pixel Hunt, a video games studio with a focus on rich interactive news items and reality-inspired games. He is now working full time on this project. Among his clients are Lemonde.fr (France’s premiere news website), Radio France (national public radio), France Télévisions (national public TV). In 2017, the company introduced its first independent game, the critically acclaimed Bury me, my Love. Florent also gives courses on interactive design, game design and non-linear storytelling.

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NEWS: LUDONARRACON FESTIVAL (APRIL 24-27 2020, ONLINE)

The 2020 edition of LudoNarraCon, a digital-only festival featuring narrative games developed by indie developers that will be available through Steam, is about to begin. The online event will showcase 40 game exhibitors and feature over 20 playable demos and 10 panels of game development discussions focusing on techniques, styles, and postmortems. Games on display include Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies, the sequel to cyberpunk bartender game VA-11 Hall-A, Kitfox’s unclassifiable Boyfriend Dungeon, Zachtronics’ Eliza, Apple Arcades’s killer apps like Neo Cab and Die Gute Fabric’s Mutazione, but also text-based horror game Beyond the Veil and cyberpunk point-and-click adventure Chinatown Detective Agency. All the streams for the event will go live at launch whereas panels will take place at different times during the entire weekend — and will be looped throughout LudoNarraCon’s duration.

For more information, visit LudoNarraCon website.