August 19th – 23th – Cologne Messe
PLAY ALL will attend GamesCom ‘09 in Cologne. The GamesCom is from August 19-23 and for more information on attending please visit http://www.gamescom-cologne.com.
For more information or to schedule a meeting with someone from the PLAY ALL team please send an e-mail to info[at]playall.fr.
March 23th – 27th – Moscone Center
PLAY ALL will attend GDC & GC ‘09 in San Francisco. The Game Connection is from March 24-26 and for more information on attending please visit http://www.game-connection.com/
For more information or to schedule a meeting with someone from the PLAY ALL team please send an e-mail to info[at]playall.fr
PLAY ALL will be attending Paris GDC. Arnaud Carré(Darkworks CTO) and Hubert Sarret (Kylotonn CTO) will present a technical conference; « Building PLAY ALL Graphics Pipeline on Current Platforms (PC, Xbox360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP) » on Monday, June 24th at 9.00 am (Room Artemis). Attendees will get a cross platform architecture development overview. Furthermore, you will learn about PLAY ALL best practice.
If you are lead programmer, software architect, programmer and if you are curious about PLAY ALL best technical pratices, it is the place to be on Tuesday 24th morning! You’re welcome!
More information here.
On 21st February, the French Prime Minister, François Fillon, came to Cap Digital, the Greater Paris Region Business Cluster. He visited Play All at the project’s stand.
In his speech, François Fillon spoke about ICT and the digital and innovation support policy that the government wishes to pursue.
Several points stand out from his speech:
1) Confirmation that business clusters are going to continue, with numbers even being increased (therefore those who reject joint projects…)
2) The leading role to be played by Cap Digital and Paris in the setting-up of clusters.
3) Play All was cited by the Prime Minister as being one of two flagship projects.
Extract of the speech
« (…) Our digital policy will be based on business clusters.
The underlying idea is to create a link between an entrepreneurial culture and the world of research. CAP Digital has the capacity to successfully forge this link.
I admire the first 100 R&D projects that have sprung from the ferment of ideas produced by your “ecosystem”.
Your cluster achieves the feat of channelling your energies without distorting them.
Two projects in particular come to mind, run by SME consortia, which were presented to me a short while ago, and on which great hopes can be built.
I am referring to “HD3D” which offers joint tools for 3D film production and animation.
And I am also thinking of the “Play All” project, which is the result of French video games studios pooling their expertise in order to shape the standards of the future. (…) »
For more information
Five French developers — Darkworks, Kylotonn, Load, White Birds Productions, and Wizarbox, with the support of French engineering schools — recently announced they have united to establish the Play All consortium, which aims to secure the development of its own cross-platform toolchain standard.
The five companies will set up a common game technology company and technology center dedicated to housing the middleware project, and plan to assemble a team of more than 40 engineers over the next 2 years.
February 5, 2008
Play All head: ‘ engine independence is critical’ for future of dev biz
Boss of French middleware initiative says team is already thinking ahead to PlayStation 4 .
In an in-depth Q&A looking at the French PlayAll middleware scheme, we’ve been talking to project manager Anne Dévouassoux to find out more – and she has said the collaborative technology effort is key to supporting independent developers in France.
(…) »Building an Xbox 360 and PS3 toolchain is already very risky for a studio to undertake on its own, and when we project forwards to PlayStation 4 the risk is even greater. So our bet was to start a collaborative approach on this generation so we will be ready to face next cycle challenges. We really are thinking that far ahead – it’s a highly ambitious and long-term project. »(…)
The full Q&A, which also asks how the project exactly works, can be read here.
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PLAY ALL is a new company emerging into the field of video game technology thanks to competitivness clusters |
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A member of Microsoft France’s IDEES program, PLAY ALL unites the talents and technologies of five video game companies to create and promote a common platform and development center. The PLAY ALL project was founded by five game development studios in the Greater Paris Region, which also involves engineering schools, cutting-edge university laboratories and specialized middleware companies. PLAY ALL’s goal is to develop creation tool middleware that can be used across all video game platforms.
