The Jury was made up of two ESRA professors, Marie MULLER and Thierry DILGER, and three professionals:
▪︎ Jean-Baptiste MERLAND, nearly 10 years of sound design and programming at Cryo-Interactive, a pioneering video game company, with such legendary titles as "Dune", "Atlantis " and "Versailles". Then audio project manager at the Bande Annonce studio in Paris on French and English localizations for Ubisoft or games scripted by Benoît SOKAL, "LÎle Noyée " or Enki Bilal "Nikopol". He is currently working on the design of multimedia systems for museography, notably "Souterrain de Laon".
▪︎ Sylvain BUFFET, sound designer specializing in video games and interactive digital media. He has been working in the video game industry for over 12 years, and has contributed to the sound design of numerous games at various French studios: Game of Thrones - RPG, Game of Thrones - Genesis (Cyanide), Beyond two Souls, the Dark Sorcerer, Detroit - Become Human (Quantic Dream), among others. He is currently Audio Lead at French studio DONTNOD ENTERTAINMENT.
▪︎ Gilles CAMOUS, after training at ESRA Bretagne in 2005, Gilles discovered the profession of sound designer at Cyanide (Loki & Bloodbowl). He honed his expertise at Lyon studio EdenGames (Alone in the Dark & Test Drive Unlimited 2) , before returning to Paris to work at Don't ?od (Remember Me). For the past ten years, he has worked at Ubisoft studio Just Dance & Ghost Recon as studio lead.
3rd year ISTS Video Games students produce a complete video game. This project represents the culmination of their training, applying the sound creation, integration and mixing techniques they have learned throughout the year.
This year, the students worked on the platform game The Explorer. The project is developed on Unity, with the audio part handled by Fmod.
Set on an unknown planet, we control Hellen, a cyborg who has just landed on the planet. Our goal: to explore the planet, discover its inhabitants and face the many dangers that await her along the way.
