I design games, and I research how people and artificial agents invent ways to understand each other.

  • Senior Technical Game Designer KLab
  • Ph.D. in Information Studies The University of Tokyo
  • Associate researcher IMSIC (Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon)

Selected research

All publications

Paintings and drawings

Painting of Telthia, a winged knight in red armour with a long sword, standing in shallow water under an egg-shaped, black-spotted sun.View larger
Yir Telthia, “the winged fencer”Painting, 2022 · BirthlandsView in Creative
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From the sketchbook

Ink and wash, 2025

The whole sketchbook

From Réunion Island to Todai

  1. 2005Beaux-Arts de La RéunionPhotography, music mixing, book binding
  2. 2008ILOIStudying game design
  3. 2010Art and animation instructorILOI
  4. 2015The University of TokyoAfter my 2014 essay opened its doors
  5. 2018Luminous ProductionsAI systems and prototypes, concepts, level design, pre-production on a AAA title
  6. 2023KLabThe AI stack, and new IPs with connectionist agents
  7. 2025Ph.D.Emergent Languages

Still in Japan, at KLab. Since 2025 I am also an associate researcher at IMSIC, and I am trying to start research initiatives about videogame AI in my hometown of La Réunion.

The whole story

Rangi (Funsoft / Digigo, 2017): composer of the main theme

Rangi

Play the main theme

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  • ShaamansGuitar and lead vocals, 2006–2011
  • Bullet In My HeadMastered by Michel GeissPlay
  • KLabMusic for game prototypes

The music room

Shaamans on stage: a guitarist silhouetted against a white spotlight, playing an electric guitar at a microphone stand.
Shaamans, live2006–2011Photo: Julien Maillot

Latest writing

  • A female knight stands in a lake of blood in a fighting stance holding an estoc in her left hand and her helmet in the left hand, she has fake wings in her back and she sports a short bowl haircut.

    Project Birthlands & Character Design Challenge:

    Yir Telthia « the winged fencer » daughter of Melthia, descendant of Teldan the Humble. This is my participation for character Design challenge this…

  • Anatomy of a theognostic

    Birthlands Project: The Theognostic

    Another couple of sketches from my Birthlands worldbuilding project. A character portrait … the name written in Sajilir on the Sketch is Dastan Mervetnos…

  • Korvedan mage Birthlands

    Birthlands project: The Korvedans

    The Korvedan are a race of Aliens who started to settle in the birthlands about a thousand years ago. Compared to their ancestors who…

All writing

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