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designers, and that’s how you make games! You
have to love the thing you’re working in, and put all
of your energy in it.
I: I have one last question, what are the qualities
of a game maker, designer, beside having
knowledge and diplomas?
JC: This is a fantastic question! And I’ll always
answer it the same way: You have to be curious.
You just have to try things, you have to experiment,
you have to be OK with failure. You’re gonna get
it wrong a lot of times. And then you try again
and you try again, and we’ve said it a lot in this
games, that was the best of all of the things. Video class, you come up with shortcuts and tricks and
games are fun, colorful, exciting, they have math, crazy hacks, and you come up with crazy solutions,
it’s the best thing in the world! because you are experimenting. You just have to
experiment and be curious.
I: And why did you decide to go to DigiPen?
JC: There are lots of schools that teach computer Interviewers: Thank you!
science, and even some other schools that claim to Justin: You’re very welcome, it was a pleasure
teach video games. DigiPen has been around for answering your interesting questions!
thirty years, and they teach video games in the best Yvana Mouawad 4 3 & Thomas Kabbouche 2 10, July 2019
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possible way.
Le vendredi 26 juillet, en fin de matinée avait
I: What is your favorite game that you developed lieu la clôture des ateliers, rassemblant en
personally? Salle d’académie, par 35 degrés, parents et
JC: I think the game I like most that I worked on participants autour des organisateurs, à savoir la
personally would be Scribblenauts. And, not only coordination d’informatique et DigiPen.
is it a fun game, but the options that exist in the Dans son mot d’accueil, Mme Marie José el Zaïck
game are limitless, for example, there is, in a level, a relevé l’engagement des élèves, leur passion
an old woman who has lost her cat on the roof of et leur ténacité. Après un exposé des jeux vidéo
her house. To solve the puzzle of the level, you développés par les élèves au cours de ces deux
have to bring the cat down. And you can create semaines, le recteur P. Charbel Batour a souligné
a fireman that will go get the cat and help out the le côté innovant de cette initiative, engageant
old lady, or, my friend said “No, no, no! The right encore une fois le Collège sur le chemin de
way to win the level is to create a hippo, and then l’excellence.
use a freeze ray gun, and freeze the cat, and then Avant la remise des attestations aux participants,
use a rope, and glue the cat to the hippo, and then c’est au tour du Dr Claude Comair, président et
use a flamethrower to scare the hippo, and when it fondateur de DigiPen, de prendre la parole pour
runs away, it pulls the cat down off the roof and the démontrer que le jeu vidéo est une porte ouverte
old lady is happy!” That’s why Scribblenauts is fun, sur beaucoup de métiers et de formations, il
the options are limitless! Actually, my grandmother a également mentionné la collaboration avec
bought a DS and bought Scribblenauts, because I Jamhour, fruit de la rencontre de deux volontés
worked on it, and that made me so happy! positives, celle du père recteur et la sienne.
I: So, you said the possibilities are endless, how Le père
much time did it take to make the game? recteur et Dr
Claude Comair
JC: So you can look at the statistics of Scribblenauts remettant les
online I don’t remember specifically, but I think it attestations
supports tens of thousands of English words. It has aux
participants
so many objects, and they all have to interact with
each other the right way, the way you’d expect! And
it took a long time, a lot of work by very talented
