Stephane Rappeneau
@stephanerappeneau
Game Industry Finance 🎮 indie studio & indie-plaza.eu cofounder. Teacher of game economics at La Sorbonne university. French Excel Artist. MtG nerd. He/Him.
There's a part 2 which is equally great, and ends-up in a sanity check of common beliefs which was also quite surprising. fragwyz.substack.com/p/ai-on-stea...
The political color of people who make AI-Games is quite clear too : ✅AI games a overrepresented in card battles, political, trading & strategy games ✅...and underrepresented in wholesome cozy LGBTQ & narrative games. "narrative games don't sell"...but they're actually more insulated from IA !
A great data-driven article on AI-games market shares on Steam ✅AI-assisted games went from a blip to 1/3rd of releases in a couple of years ✅Steam game explosion is probably entirely due to AI-assisted games. + lots of cool data fragwyz.substack.com/p/three-year...
This is a flying boat we concepted a few years back at @weirdloop.bsky.social (we're also working on AC key arts right now wow the loop is closed 🫴)
Follow-ups are getting faster ✅ 1 week for the first clones of Meccha Chameleon ✅ <4 weeks to have more players than the original As soon as vibecoders start watching wishlist rankings, these could be simlaunched 🥵
Went in a few minutes from 36° to hailstorm of ice stones from 1 to 3 cm diameter. It's now 21°. Daddy, is this the end of the world ? 😨
Having lived for 20 years Poissy, my kids have friends in all adjacent cities, Chanteloup, Beauregard, Vernouillet they've tried to reach - several of them are in the same case - this is cascading on water filtration and there are now also warnings on water 👌
It's underreported.studied imo but vibecoding is taking market shares in the attention economy Attention Market stopped growing (Shapiro) and in some key western markets such as US, gametime decreased (Ball) "Building for the sake of building" is becoming a new form of entertainment for hoomans
If you're in western europe you should definitely give it a go + lille and venue are superb
Steam AI disclosures are starting to sound like processed-food ads. If something vaguely resembling to a human pressed "enter" when vibe-coding, then GenAI results WERE CAREFULLY CRAFTED BY HUMAN ARTISTS WITH LOVE👌
Wow the game looks and sounds great ! 😍 Who did the key arts from the trailer ?
Me : *stressed out*, being interviewed for a live-to-tape broadcast on the national network (C pas si loin, France TV) The street-maintenance leaf-blower : *under my window* BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I'd like to be remembered as the man who disabled, one-by-one, each of the 72 notifications type in 14 different categories in LinkedIn 🪦
We did the art at @weirdloop.bsky.social for Studio H latest game with Bruno Cathala, Bella Vista 🌇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXvp...
Brian Merchant's latest article goes hard : how Anthropic carefully-engineered-out-of-nothing ethical-stance is paying-off billions. substack.com/home/post/p-...
yeah it's a plague for moodboards. Here is one from our game because I like you a lot ❤️
Award ceremony time. Opening host Tim Rogers promised Expedition 33 would NOT earn the award... a rare privilege among ceremony hosts indeed 👌
How gay are you allowed to sound in marketing ? A hilarious improvised conference by Ian Stewart, replacing a missing speaker on the fly If you make a queer game, pretty much A cozy game, reasonably gay Battlefield and Fifa....not so much
Lots of cool & provocative talks as well - Playing with player boredom by Sondi - Treasuring indie festivals - Sam Eng (Skate Story) goofyling commenting his Unity layout - A super inspiring & fun talk by Joanna Oluoch from Kenya on her trip to sharing her favorite forest with the world
This experience was too weird not to mention. It's an ukrainian immersive pagan ritual called Otherworlds by Sophia Bulgakova sophiabulgakova.com/otherworlds/
1rst time in A MAZE, a magical and inspiring place where gamedevs - talk about what they want to tell the world, and how, more than funding - discuss about negative effets of Steam monopoly on creativity & diversity - often have a food-providing job as a result - jam, livecode, care & embrace chaos
Too finance specific ! Please refer to our website instead 👌
I've been following this feed of all Steam games released in real-time (@steamreleasebot.bsky.social). I often analyse big datasets but very few things give you the "pulse" of a neverending flow of people giving their dream a shot with whatever mean they can scrap.
Due to maintenance costs, we're winding down indie-plaza.eu What we did: ✅ We turned the steam revenue simulator to a static site instead (still very useful for indie studios without a CFO !) ✅ We open-sourced the code on GitHub github.com/stephanerapp... Thank you for your support 🙏