#mgflondon

With Céline Boudier, software engineer at Aldebaran, we'll have a talk next week at the Mobile Game Forum in London. We'll try to explain to mobile game developers why they should pay attention to robotics.

Basically, Joan Da Silva was supposed to be the one talking. He was previously Creative Director at Rovio, and now works as Creation and Content Director at Aldebaran. The organizers invited him so as to talk about what he learned transitioning for the video game industry to robotics. Aldebaran recruited several people from that industry in the last year, and it seems that this is raising a lot of questions among developers.

But for some reasons, Joan can't make it, and Ive been asked to talk with Céline. Which I will be honored to do!

Robots Need Game Designers (C. Boudier / N. Rigaud) from Nicolas RIGAUD

At first, Joan gave us some slides he created so as to help. And that was kind! But also strange: I wasn't feeling confortable with them. His "story" wasn't making sense to me with my background, and I couldn't imagine myself on stage talking about something Im not completely convinced with. So I took some time, some of his arguments and insights, and I wrote my own talk.

Last year, I did almost the same for the RSA Conference in San Francisco: I had no real experience about security (as it is the case today with the mobile game industry), so I talked a lot about it with Rodolphe Gélin (the guy managing the Romeo project at Aldebaran) and I tried to find an approach where things seemed logic to me, and where I felt confortable telling a story.

On her side, Céline has been working a lot on demos, so as to show the difference between what we were creating at first with just developers and animators, and what we create now with our multidisciplinary teams.