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Citadel Arcanes, Krystal Bytes' first game released on PC, MAC and iPad !

As the Duke’s daughter, you are learning the Arcanes of Magic to become the greatest Citadel Architect in the Kingdom! Unfortunately, your father contracts a mysterious illness, and now your only hope is to restore the long-lost Healers Circle... Can you meet the challenge of the 50 Match3 levels, and gather enough resources to build the most fantastic Citadel?

Dive into Citadel Arcanes’ original and captivating universe:

- Play an addictive and innovative Match3 game

Surround and capture buildings to get blueprints
Seize chests and uncover their hidden treasure
Use tons of bonus and special powers

- Explore a groundbreaking Citadel building system

Mix, connect and even stack buildings any way you like to create YOUR unique Citadel!
Build 5 special buildings to unlock magical powers

Citadel Arcanes

Game production basics 2011

Download the course slides (english)

Thanks to Alice Herniaux, head of a new game design curriculum at the IUT Bobigny - Université PARIS XIII, I joined the faculty in 2009 and taught this introductory course on Game Production.

I had several objectives with this course:

Help students understand the game industry and how to fit in the organization of a game studio
Teach them how to be efficient and produce quality deliverables with a practical hands-on approach
Have them practice their English which is so important in our industry (the course is taught in English and the deliverables must be produced in English too)

I included a lot of role play and other interactive sessions to keep students interested. The course remains quite simple indeed, in fact it does not aim at teaching the game producer job, but rather explain the expectations a game producer will have from a Game Designer work.

I would be happy to hear from you on this course, as I will try to improve the course every now and then.
Also if you’d like me to teach this course in your curriculum, please feel free to contact me (see contact below)!

Course Production

Music: Five

My entry to the Mangedisque compo of june 2009.

I had the idea of using a 5-tap based rythm at the core of the song. I was not sure how I could make it explicit enough so that the audience would understand the structure. So I chose to attach this to the classical old phone 5-tap sound and reuse it all over.

Not sure why it ended up feeling so nervous/angry, but it seemed to me the song had to be spiced up somewhere...

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