#mvem

Hi everyone, we’d like to share with you a summary of our latest news! Sorry it’s still a bit long, but we don’t post very often lately ;)

RealMYHA

We're glad to inform you that the Kickstarter of RealMyha ended in success, and that Denis and Simon have now gained around 6 000 €, in order to develop the game. This is a very important moment for The Icehouse as it was our first real collaboration and attempt to fund a game. They both saw it as an opportunity to promote the project and discover how many people would be interested in it (if any at all), and that has worked out with a great result. Yesterday the usual questionnaire has been sent to all the backers, so please make sure you received yours by email if you supported the project!

Latest news:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonsays-watchplay/realmyha/posts/2067850

Blue Moon

We have a major update regarding this exciting project from Juanjo/Luminy Studios:

"Hi, after making a prototype and taking some time to consider things, I decided that it was time for a new stage in the project to begin: As you probably know from other updates, I was already making some important changes, but now I am moving to the next stage and I'm completely redesigning the levels (graphically speaking) to take advantage of the new features of Unity 2017.1!!! So that will specifically impact on the graphics quality, which will be increased, and I can't wait to show you by how much. This means that what you have seen so far of the game will now change: see the WIP screenshots attached, showing the new aspect of Ytria's surface. Blue Moon is a collaboration with Simon Mesnard (story) and Python Blue (music), but I am working on it on my own, so it takes time. I will do my best to keep you updated!"

Current homepage of the game:

http://www.theblackcube.fr/bluemoon

  Phenomena

Our Friend Python Blue has recently released a new, personal album, Phenomena, that you can listen in streaming here:

https://python-blue.bandcamp.com/album/phenomena

MVEM books

Simon has taken the decision to work more actively on his own, very personal, series Mon Village est Magique during next year. As a result, he has decided to go through his past books and finally release them to public. Even though they're written in French, it's an important first stage, and an English translation of book 1 will arrive soon. With the cooperative comics and the desire of Simon to create a game in this series, it's definitely something to look out for during the next few months!

http://www.monvillageestmagique.fr

Unity Neon Challenge

Juanjo is going to participate in the Neon Challenge using the Unity engine. The purpose, to make it short, is to create a scene that shows a possible future for humanity. Juanjo has decided to work on an extrapolation of our present, putting into situation robots, nature and several other aspects of our societies and world. Have a look and support him on his dedicated page, right here:

https://connect.unity.com/p/entry-for-neon-challenge-wip

Mon Village est Magique, cooperative comic book 1

... continues with French illustrator Auriane Laenger.

This new part in the story makes the link with the previous chapter created by Andrea Ferrara several months ago. Soon we will be able to reveal the next part created by our Friend John Carvajal. All finished pages can be found on the website of the project:

www.monvillageestmagique.fr

We hope you have fun reading the story illustrated by Auriane, where the heros take the critical decision to follow their father to the ruins of the icehouse... What will they find inside? Answer in the next part soon.

Hello everyone!

Another year is coming to an end, and The Icehouse continues to evolve slowly, to mature in its own way. We have experienced some personal difficulties, so our communication has been less active than in the past, but internally everything is going very well. The active members of the collective have worked on a number of various projects, listed below.

And of course, we wouldn't get very far without the many other actors in our community, our creative friends, who have released a lot of interesting things on their side (inktober, sketches, music, The Five Cores Remastered, game jams [EnantiO, Souls Beacon, The Offectibus...], etc.), or participated in our own projects ! It is very rewarding for all of us and we hope you enjoy it.

Among our most active friends this year, you will find the projects of John Carvajal, Atelier Sentô, Python Blue, Yazorius, Iridescent Waves, Sunday Ink, Simon Demaret...

And thanks also to our other friends who keep our forums alive (Josh, Rehvaro, Dalkar...). So many talented people who regularly encourage us, and with whom we share ideas.

So thank you all, for your support, whether you participate directly or follow us on social networks. It's thanks to you that we still exist four years later!

Merry Christmas to all, and in order to celebrate this event, we invite you to download our little gift: a small interactive comics (or kind of visual novel) taking place in the world of Mon Village Est Magique, with a little story of evil ghosts that seem to haunt the undergrounds of our icehouse! We hope you will be able to help the young heroes, Seb and Tommy, to get rid of this curse so that we can pass 2019 in the best conditions!

DOWNLOAD LINK:

https://http://www.theicehouse.fr/mvem_crypt

List of all projects released by The Icehouse Members in 2018:

Simon (Simon Says: Play!):

- Myha demo (with Denis Martin / Babel Studio) - Catyph: Light Edition (Steam) - Kitrinos (with Yazorius) - MVEM interactive comic (collective)

Juanjo (Luminy Studios/Blurred Games):

- Labyrinth (Movie Game Jam 2018) - Blurred Games, Python Blue - The Sacred Orb (Adventure Jam 2018) - Blurred Games, Python Blue - Kirkbrook Lunatic Asylum (Visionaire Jam 2018) - Luminy Studios/The Mechanism (Andrea Rinaldi) - MVEM interactive comic (collective)

Denis (Babel Studio):

- Myha demo (Kickstarter reward) (with Simon)

Roger (RKT):

- DRUIDIC Project (collective)

If you follow us on tumblr or facebook, you might be aware that we have a project of cooperative comic book named My Magical Village (Mon Village est Magique). You can read the beginning in English on www.monvillageestmagique.fr

When we started this project, everything was based on an unfinished work from 2010 by artist Dayan Dewaele (current first page), followed by 2 pages in 3D cell-shading that were initially prepared for a short animation film.

These 3 first pages that begin the current book were intended to show the progress we made along all the book. But the author of Mon Village est Magique, Simon, didn’t like these pages at all. He decided to remake them from scratch with traditional techniques: pencil and wtercolor on paper.

During the last week-end, Simon worked on these 3 pages, and we’ve decided to share his progress with you. In the photos attached you can see the drawing, from skech to cleaned. We hope you like it: it took almost 1 day of work.

Tomorrow we will show the result of his 2nd day of work: the painting!