For the last 2 years, I’m invited at the game design and project management school in Valenciennes, Supinfogame. I’m invited to attend the end of the year jury where students who are graduating present their prototype to a board of game industry professionnals. To give a little bit of context, each of the student has to present a game idea in their first year. At the start of the 2nd year, 5 to 6 of the ideas are selected to be projects developed for a total of 9 months. You can see some of the old projects here.

Students are in groups and can ask for external help (artists, programmers). Not to mention that they have no fund to do so (looks like a real indie studio). When getting external help, they are often working with professionnals who have some spare time, amateurs or team up with other, more dedicated, schools.

As an ex-student from the Supinfogame (I graduated 8 years ago, oooh growing very old), I’m amazed to see the number of growing and known people attending this jury. This is partly due to the increasing quality of projects presented. This year I’ve been really amazed by the quality of productions. Some concepts were very innovative and some of them were really more than prototypes, near finalized products.

Students presented us 6 prototypes: “Le marionnettiste” (The Puppeteer), “When Gods Play”, “Contre-Jour”, “Blork”, “The Uncanny Fish Hunt” and finally “Big Bang”.

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A good news for RollOut, our last iPhone game released about 3 three weeks ago has been selected by AppModo as one of the three best games of June on the Apple AppStore.

After being Top#1 Paid App in the French AppStore, let’s now hope we’ll get the same success in the US. Spread the word and in the meantime, here’s the link to the news: http://appmodo.com/24859/3-best-games-june/.

Powerball is almost here! I guess it’s time to start showing some of the goods then

No set release date yet, but you should be able to spin this baby very soon!

More screenshots coming, stay tuned!