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I have one problem with music: lyrics. I can’t really listen to them. Sometimes I cam hum every single instrument of the song, know every note triggered and yet being totally unable to sing some simple english I have listen to a gazillion time. “That’s weiird” Though I always found that french was not...

Speechless →

This year I told myself that I would take any opportunities in front of me and that it would be the year I exploded. Whatever it means. Et on reprend les bonnes habitudes.. I moved to L.A. found an oustanding partner and am so ready to push it hard, doing audio like crazy. I miss some tools, they’re...

BombHman →

The term audio-visual (AV) may refer to works with both a sound and a visual component. It’s not too much about budgets or game developers not going for great audio and sound, they do from Indie to AAA. It’s more about the fact that dev people usually separate these two components. Which are totally...

Audio and visual are the same coin →

Yes I want it. I want a way to go through games without having to fail miserably 50 times and giving up, thanks Rock Paper Shotgun to talk about it . It’s a thing of the past now. Please. Because to appreciate a game you need to play it. If a level is boring and you stop because it’s hard –or badly designed...

I want a skip button too →

I have to say it: I hate 3D third person view . Hours of play like that… Mmmh, maybe not.   That makes 90% of AAA titles sort of meh for me. From a player point of view I hate it because having your character stabbed in the back while you can’t see shit just sucks so much. Alone in the Dark was...

3D freedom my ass →

Family time. During that time, August in Paris makes you believe that the capital is at least half black, half asian demonstrating who can go on vacation, sort of. It makes me feel bad that my white friend after four years in China seeing that too is feeling “invaded” while at the same time he loves...

Contrast and mirror →

Watching everything that goes on in the tech and computer world –well as much as I can-, here some thoughts. Just so nobody can’t say nothin’ Closed/Open technologies and monopole . It’s an endless loop I guess. Usually at first we use the closed ones because they are better and when the technology is...

Nerdy choices →

Chocobeam Sound Lab. The beginning. So I founded my company and called it Chocobeam (Sound Lab). I find that it’s interesting to come out with a word to imagine a name because at some point, it’s pure sound . When you hear the name of something, the brain converts audio to words to meaning. So the audio...

Word sound design →

I feel like I’m overcapacity. Too much information, I can’t process them all. Facebook was not a really good idea for that. I am officially scared to launch the website. It’s a time-elapsing hemoragy. I have some trouble to find a way to filter, priorize all this digital social information creation thing...

Overload →

But first, we need to stop a bit this BS around. Like the bullshots . We exactly know how they are done, we all know this is pure bullshit compared to real gameplay in-game, with opponents, AI inputs etc But still, Kotaku for example is full of them more than ever. And people jerk off on it. We had to...

It’s shifting →