2017 · Game jam · Co-creator
Le Fils de Tsilaosa
A game about the legend of marronage, created during the 2017 Volcano Game Jam and awarded its grand prize.
- Role
- Co-creator, game development
- Team
- Eric Castieau, Olivier Sicard
- Disciplines
- Video games · Game design · Storytelling · Unity
Where it started
November 2017, Cité du Volcan: the Volcano Game Jam gives teams a few days to create a game on a theme heavy with history, marronage, the flight of enslaved people into the island’s mountains. How do you make players feel that escape without reducing it to a backdrop?
The approach
Tsilaosa is not a hero with defined features: he is a silhouette standing for everyone who fled. Players do not read the story, they live it: pursued, they run, jump and climb towards the heights. The Réunion Island landscape becomes the main character.
Together with Eric Castieau and Olivier Sicard, I took charge of developing the game.
What I took from it
A serious subject can be approached through play on one condition: respect. The pleasure of playing opens the door, and the meaning follows, without being forced.
What exists
- Grand prize at the 2017 Volcano Game Jam.
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