david calvo

about | song of beulah | fe fi fum | canevas

1974

NOVELS

+ ELLIOT DU NEANT -- my 7th novel (la volte, 2012) :: what if the Void was something rather than nothing ?

+ minusculesflocons de neige depuis dix minutes -- my 4th novel (first published in france by les moutons electriques, 2005) :: virtual cardboard, disney's burbank secret underground and alien palm trees. this is the original .rtf file of the book, typed in french linear B on a pentium 4 over a period of three years between los angeles and paris. an hardcover book was also published by les moutons electriques and shall be reprinted in 2013 in a new, augmented edition.

+ nid de coucou (short stories, 2007, les moutons electriques)
+ acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ sunk, with fabrice colin (2005, les moutons electriques)
+ atomic bomb, with fabrice colin (2002, le belial)
+ wonderful -- prix julia verlanger 2001 (j'ai lu, bragelonne)
+ la nuit des labyrinthes (2003, j'ai lu)
+ delius, une chanson d'ete (1997, j'ai lu, mnemos)

GAMES

+ kwaan -- an experimental prototype community (fe fi fum, PC, 2012)
+ the boy whose mind was a forest -- a very simple game poem (fe fi fum, browser, 2012)
+ islands of wakfu -- a mythological beat'em up (ankama play, xbox live arcade, 2011)
+ wakfu (MMORPG, ankama games / square enix, PC, 2012)
+ DOFUS Battle 2 (Ipad, kalmeo, 2012)
+ godsrule (MMO, gogogic, 2012)
+ worship prokra -- a fight against the last demon god (self-aid, 2011)
+ dream of lu-fu -- a musical landscape (ankama play, PC, 2010)
+ dead pixel -- a pixel tamagotchi (PC, ankama play, 2009)
+ rainbowkatz -- an 8bit design for the playpower foundation
+ the great god pan -- travels in arcadia (tabletop RPG)
+ qui a peur du grand werdhad fafhrd ? -- a campaign for over the egde (halloween concept, 2002)
+ le pendu -- an arcane book for nephilim (multisim, 1997)

GAME DESIGN THEORY

+ hypernature -- a conference @utopiales 2022 with eric chahi, jehanne rousseau, florent de grissac and laurent genefort
+ spissify da gamify -- a personal take on gamification for sande's chen game design aspect of the month
+ beyond transmedia : vivification through spissitude -- virtual worlds design talk @lift 2011
+ narrative design panel -- world model design panel with stephane bura and florent de grissac @utopiales 2010
+ orpheus and the transmedia parallax -- world model design talk @LiFT lyon
+ pandemie en pixels -- an H1N1 epidemy from the virus POV for france culture
+ vive la mort ! -- death in games for sande's chen game design aspect of the month
+ interactive narration keynote @utopiales 2009 -- postmodern cosmogonies, fragments, 2D poetry
+ a second life -- a mentor guide, with sombre eclipse (micro applications, 2006)
+ avant la romede -- in jeu est un autre (moutons electriques, 2009)
+ le jeu de la vie nous tue, with fabrice colin -- in jeu est un autre (les moutons electriques, 2009)

CO(S)MIC BOOKS

+ many happy returns in beulah -- how i've missed you, land of my dreams
+ snowflake ninja -- a silly quest
+ the wrong party -- gods are lonely

SHORT STORIES

+ pragmata -- against procrastination - in angle mort #2 (2010)
+ je vous prends tous un par un -- bzzz - in retour sur l'horizon (2010, denoel)
+ instruction au sosie -- cognitive gameplay - in fiction W (2008, les moutons electriques)
+ archeodrome -- come back home, failure - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ kei -- the birth of a god - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ 30 questions a la jabule -- take back your childhood - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ acide organique -- hallucinating kate bush - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ scomark telesport 10 -- dead and still playing pong - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ aeroplane tonite(with christian divine) -- pulling stars with fingers - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ ambient otaku -- i am big, i am multiple - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ londrangar -- icelandic psychogeography -- in poetique de l'exploration urbaine (les moutons electriques, 2011)
+ elle parlait du murex -- a cute tale
+ la commissure des levres -- in hypercourt #5
+ baalu amurru -- the ancient beast is back
+ effondrement des colonies -- a penguin tale of beulah - in le jardin schizologique (2010, la volte)
+ CPCBN -- a fridge story - in bifrost #21
+ viva D.I -- an open conspiracy - in acide organique (short stories, 2005, les moutons electriques)
+ un soleil d'hexagones -- aldous huxley, ron hubbard and jack parsons in llano - in yellow submarine (2008, les moutons electriques)
+ oui, with fabrice colin -- heartbreaking fissure - in fiction #7 (2008, les moutons electriques)
+ noel dans la cathedrale de reims -- santa is dead - in les noels electriques (2007, les moutons electriques)
+ dolores -- a socialist dream of abuse - in toreo de Salon (2006, au diable vauvert)
+ supercroc -- captain hook and his watch - in les ombres de peter pan (2000, fleuve noir)
+ john frog -- clumsy idiot and giant sharks- in fantasy (1998, fleuve noir)
+ le sourire du momrath -- smile, then, die - in chasseurs de rĂªves #3

COMIC BOOKS (as writer)

+ constellations,T2. les anoraks, with popcube (2010, ankama araignee)
+ constellations,T1. dans le stade (FREE DOWNLOAD !), with popcube (2008, ankama araignee)
+ la guerre civile mondiale -- pour le collectif anAmnesie
+ le grand doudou, with krassinsky - in les fables de la poubelle T2 (2010, dargaud)
+ vorax, with gabriel delmas (2010, quadrants)
+ akhenaton, with thomas azuelos (2006, carabas revolution)
+ telemaque, with thomas azuelos (2004, carabas revolution)
+ AK, T1. misere, T2. maladie, with jean-paul krassinsky and laetitia schwendimann (2003, 2006, carabas revolution)
+ kaarib, T1. la derniere vague, T2. les palmiers noirs, T3. pieces de huit, with jean-paul krassinsky and claire champion (dargaud)

NON FICTION

+ ultra Q : l'essence du kaiju -- in kami et mecha, yellow submarine 135 (les moutons electriques, 2011)
+ lunch wih tim powers -- in conscience historique(les moutons electriques, 2007)
+ studios disney : des souris dans les murs -- in panorama illustre de la fantasy & du merveilleux (les moutons electriques, 2006)
+ aves raras : a closer look at the strange feathers of the three caballeros -- in animation blast #9 (2008)
+ disney's friend -- in animation blast #7 (2007)
+ super elastomer -- in tausend augen #30 (2005)

MOVIES / TV

+ wakfu, season 2 -- narrative designer (2010, france 3)
+ megiddo with steeve calvo -- the end of the world in canaan(2007)
+ viva D.I. with steeve calvo -- a conspiracy puzzle based on my short story "Viva D.I." (2006)

SIDE PROJECTS

+ killscreen -- i'm an illustrator for this splendid mag
+ pitchfork -- i'm an illustrator for this awesome site
+ deadline -- i'm an illustrator for this wonderful zine
+ AGN -- "monotremes" being the first ep recorded live with audacity as i was learning music on unprepared tenori-on + lyra
+ double styx -- with laurent kloetzer, a correspondance between HP lovecraft and RE howard (in french)

MORE

+ @metagaming
+ linkedin
+ viadeo
+ pomofrag -- a tumblr i sometimes update
+ official FB page -- ego trip
+ FR wiki -- up to date bibliography of previously published materials


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last updated in may 2012.
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