Another level of reward
If we had told them this just nine months ago, they would not have believed it and we can only understand it. The team of Sandfall Interactive was awarded a prestigious distinction for each member, now making them Knights of the Order of Arts and Letters. Medals awarded by the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.
If we keep the minister’s words safe for the remainder of the article, we of course had a reaction of William Brochehappy and eager that such success can give confidence to the entire French and international creative scene:
I hope that our trajectory will give hope to the thousands of game designers, artists, programmers and musicians who want to get started, but are hesitant because they are told that their project is unusual or does not correspond to market standards. And all those who come after, I hope, will in turn be able to open new horizons.
The success of Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33 will therefore have had its echo all the way to the top of the State, an objective consecration for a studio that was still little-known a year ago. But despite the laudable opportunity to take advantage of it to send a motivating message to all creators, we must not put aside survivor bias.
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Sandfall Interactive studio receiving its award with Rachida Dati
A bias hidden behind the observation that the best will cannot fight in the face of the conditions of a merciless market, unfavorable circumstances and lack of financing due to lack of interest from a publisher. A fortiori when in the space of 24 hours, the media that is rewarded sees itself tarnished by the one capable of working to strengthen its consideration and yet previously very quick to congratulate the initiative of a ZEvent or to receive eSport representatives.
A very strange way of treating video games
Deserved congratulations aside, it is indeed difficult not to have a very unpleasant taste in the mouth. While France deplores the tragic attack suffered by a plastic arts teacher in Sanary-sur-Mer, the trying debate around the fact that video games make people violent has pushed Emmanuel Macron to request a new study on this subject.
An approach supported by certain parts of his declaration to Brut, including this one:
When you spend 5 or 6 hours a day killing people, being in this logic of predation, well it’s clear that at some point that conditions young people
A cliché widely fought and nuanced by a scientific consensus nourished by numerous studies, directly placing responsibility on the media rather than, among others, education or supervision around the consumption of video games among young people.
A distrust towards an industry which nevertheless continues to welcome new players, and which causes the most beautiful yellow smiles in front of the speech of Minister Rachida Dati, on the occasion of the decoration of Sandfall, emphasizing that video games have “found its place, naturally, in our cultural lives” and affirms in the name of the Republic that “Video games are an essential industry and a major art, which have their place at the heart of our cultural policy. »
An acrobatic performance carried out as a duo which will not have escaped Nicolas Vignollesgeneral delegate of SELL (the Union of Leisure Software Publishers), whose reaction delivered to France Info is worth a thousand words:
We cannot congratulate ourselves on the successes of French video games in the morning, decorate and celebrate the sector at midday, and denigrate and insult this country’s leading creative and cultural industry in the evening.
So let’s stay on the good news of the day, rewarding a very great video game which brought together a lot of people, and hope that one day, the media stops being unfairly discredited when it is well worth it.