Voilà un autre conte, mais cette fois c'est une première, puisque je l'ai traduit... du chinois ! TADAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Bon faut dire que c'est pas un conte bien long ni compliqué, mais ça reste quand même un petit challenge pour moi. Bref, le voici...
Le riche et avare homme
Il était une fois un homme très riche, qui, malgré son incommensurable fortune, perdurait dans l’avarice.
Ce bougre de pingre avait un seul et unique enfant, un jeune garçon, qui était bête comme ses pieds. (Et ça encore, c’est un euphémisme)
Un jour, le père et le fils partirent en montagne couper du petit bois. (Si j’avais autant d’argent, je paierais des gens pour le faire à ma place, mais bon…)
La forêt y était dense, et l’herbe s’élevait bien au dessus de leurs têtes.
Quand soudain, un tigre surgit d’un fourré !
Aussitôt qu’il le vit, le jeune garçon couru se cacher derrière le plus proche rocher. Le tigre bondit alors sur son vieux père et chercha à l’immobiliser au sol à l’aide de ses puissantes pattes avant.
Le père, tout en se débattant de toutes ses forces, cria alors :
-« Mon fils ! Viens vite me sauver ! Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite »
Après avoir entendu les hurlements de son père, le jeune garçon quitta sa cachette, hache à la main. Alors que le vieil homme se tortillait entre les griffes de la bête menaçante, son fils, lui, se tenait derrière, prêt à asséner à la bête un terrible coup.
C’est alors que le vieux grigou s’écria :
-« Wooh Woooh attends un peu là, mon fils, pas si vite. Une peau de tigre ne vaut rien si elle est endommagée ! »
Le jeune benêt écouta son père, trouvant sa remarque pleine de bon sens. Il posa alors la hache, et revint avec un bâton de bois bien solide. Alors qu’il s’apprêtait à asséner un formidable coup de bâton à la bête sans défenses… (J’exagère peut-être un peu là)
-« Mais ATTENDS ! Attends… Si on capture ce tigre VIVANT et qu’on le ramène au village, on pourra en retirer un bien meilleur prix ! » Cria le vieux sournois.
Un fois de plus, le jeune garçon écouta son père, trouvant sa remarque pleine de bon sens. Il se débarrassa donc du bâton de bois, et partit chercher de la corde (qu’ils avaient amenée pour attacher le petit bois ramassé).
Malheureusement, à son retour, le tigre avait déjà planté ses dents dans la chair de son « pauvre »père, et trainait son corps inerte tout en haut de la montagne. (ouch)
Morale de l’histoire (y’a toujours une morale dans les contes chinois)
« Un homme obsédé par l’argent ne pense à rien d’autre. Il oublie très souvent les choses importantes, au risque de foutre sa vie en l’air. »
FIN
Version chinoise
貪心的富翁
從前,有一個富翁。這個富翁雖然很有錢,卻仍舊很貪心。富翁唯一的親人是一個傻兒子。
有一天,富翁和他的傻兒子一起到山裏去砍柴。山裏樹林茂密,野草長的比人還高。忽然,一隻老虎從草叢裏跑出來。富翁的兒子一眼瞧見老虎。連忙躲進旁邊一個大石頭後面躲起來。老虎便朝著富翁撲過去,用前腳把富翁壓住。富翁急得大叫:「兒子啊,快來救我!」
兒子聽到父親的叫聲,從石頭後面跑出來,手裏拿著砍柴用的大斧頭。他看見富翁正在老虎的爪子下掙扎,舉來斧頭就要向老虎劈下去。
這時,富翁叫了起來:「慢著,兒子,老虎的皮要完整的才值錢!」
傻兒子一聽這話,覺得有道理,就丟掉斧頭,回頭去撿了一根粗木棒。他舉起木棒要打老虎時,富翁又大叫:「等等!要是把老虎活活捉住,拿到城裏去賣的話,那可就更值錢啦!」
傻兒子聽了,覺得父親說得不錯,又仍了木棒,跑回去把捆柴的繩子拿來。這時,老虎已經把富翁咬死,把他叼在嘴裏往山頂走了。
(蒙古族寓言)
寓言:
財迷心竅的人往往只一心想著錢財,忘了其他更重要的事,甚至把自己的性命丟了。
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I am shocked...
Ok this has nothing to do with Game Design but I just had to share this.
As I was looking around in Chaozhou, I just tumbled on a... Cafe, and check this out... the cafe and I share the same name, 達米安, or Damian, the English version of Damien in French. Well actually I used to be called like this when I was in Taiwan three years ago but I changed it officially for 佘米恩but it doesn't really matter. This is... surprising and quite odd.
As you'll find on the sign, the Eiffel Tower along with the Big wheel...and some French "Le café de Damian"... which basically means that there is another French Damien in town...A small freaking town in the south of Taiwan (50 000 inhabitants). Wow life is really full of coincidences.
And yep it also means that I have the exclusivity no more... What a shame...
我剛剛出去玩,發現有一個很特別的咖啡店。。。為什麼很特別,那個咖啡的名字是達迷安咖啡。。。怎麼會!!
3年前我中文的名字也是達米安,我就覺得很奇怪。潮州不是很大的市,不過有兩個Damian,他們都是法國人。。。
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
T'es où Théo? Where are you Théo? 小米, 你在哪裡!
T'es ou Théo the game is the interactive version of the Canadian TV series of the same name. The web site is only available in French (at least for now)

J'ai designé une dizaine de mini-jeux au gameplay et thèmes variés, lorsque j'étais chez ODD1 à Montréal. Pour le moment, il n'y a que 2 mini-jeux online, le prochain release est dû pour mi-novembre.
I have designed 10 mini-games when I was still working at Odd1, in Montreal. For now, only 2 mini games have been released, more will come very soon.
Bon, ne vous attendez pas à un jeu pour hardcore gamer, on est sur du 3-5 ans là.
It's not a game made for Hardcore gamer, our target audience is 3 to 5 years old (preschoolers).
Chaque jeu a été designé pour convenir à son public, du coup, simplicité/ usability, rejouabilité et fun sont les maître-mots.
Each game has been designed, thoroughly thought to match the likes/dislikes and skills of its audience- the mini games are easy to play, fun and most of all, replayable.
Mon préféré des deux mini-jeux est le cochon glouton... un jeu de course / parcours 2D side scrolling dans lequel le joueur contrôle un porcinet rose qui sue quand il court et qui doit collecter la nourriture sur son chemin avant de passer la ligne d'arrivée. Simple, et pas mal efficace. L'essentiel est que les enfants s'éclatent dessus (pas littéralement...).
My favourite so far is "le cochon glouton" that we could translate by "The gluttonous pig" (doesn't sound good though...) It's a 2d race side scrolling game in which the player controls a piglet. Small piglet has to collect as much food as possible while dodging the various obstacles on his way.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Spliced is finally back online!
After few weeks (shall we say months?) of absence, due to... let's say technical issues, Spliced is back on Teletoon.com!

I'm pointing this out since this game is actually my first BIG game design, and even if I would change a lot of things if I could (as every game designer would do), I'm pretty proud of it. Hey we even got an award! Teletoon Most Awesome Game Ever! Go check it out!
This made my day...
3ds Max 的上課-耐心耐心
十二月二十八日要開始3ds Max 遊戲動畫設計認證班。我不想等那麼久!
這是那個課程大綱:(很有趣)- 72個小時的課程。

這是那個課程大綱:(很有趣)- 72個小時的課程。
Still a month and a half to go before the beginning of my 3DS Max Game Animation Design program! I got the course outline, and it looks very interesting. I have absolutely no idea how much I'm going to learn within those 72 hours, but looks like we are going to study every aspect of 3D animation, as it is mentioned in the outline.
- Basic operations/Props/Game scene build/Game items (weapons/ barrels, etc.), Mapping/Topography (Terrain, plants, trees, etc)/Buildings, and object integration- for the first session
-The second session will focus on character modeling and animation: texture mapping/ bones/ the whole thing based on martial art fighting scene.
It's gonna be tough, but there's soooo much to learn. Can't wait.
IIllustrator course- Logo
Here's a logo we had to design in class using Illustrator. The objective was to use the various tools we had learned so far.
Since we use the traditional Chinese version of the soft in class, the hardest part is to remember all the tools we have been using. The easiest, to reproduce the content of the course, at home, using my version of Illustrator (in English). The content of the course is also taught in Chinese which is, actually, quite fine. (you get used to it).
However it's freaking hard to use a software that is written in a language that you do not master, especially when it is in Chinese... You can't possibly read a word when you just don't know the characters it is made of...
To give an example of what exactly happened during the first courses (and it still happens...): during a Flash class... For your information, I use "___" for each Chinese word I don't know.
Me- (I just forgot where the bloody "path" tool is, in the numerous tabs of the UI)
---"Hey, madam, could you please help me find the___(path tool), to modify the ___(the trajectory of my character) because I just can't find it in the ___(User Interface)
With some luck, it ends with my teacher taking hold of my computer and just showing me where to find it... Or if it's a really bad day (occurs all the time), she will try to explain me, just with WORDS, you know, those words in Chinese that I still did not learn. And how does it end? By me saying "Ohoh ok ok, hao le, hao le, xie xie..." (which means "thanks a lot for helping me, even if I just did not get a word of what you were saying,I'll just wait here and die of shame while you go on with your course...")
Yep, class is fun here.
在Gjun我們都用中文的軟骨。好難啊!有的時候,我沒辦法看得懂。但是我只要習慣。最難的事是看得懂那個UI,我就先要翻譯.File,Edit,View,Modify,這樣還ok。比較工藝的字我都不會看得懂,就沒關係。不過回家的時候,看看以下,用我的字典,就要記得這個很重要的字。慢慢來,慢慢學。我在家有英文的譯文,很幸運1!
老師也很好。有問題的話,幫我一下。她將的很快,可是將得很清楚。
Since we use the traditional Chinese version of the soft in class, the hardest part is to remember all the tools we have been using. The easiest, to reproduce the content of the course, at home, using my version of Illustrator (in English). The content of the course is also taught in Chinese which is, actually, quite fine. (you get used to it).
However it's freaking hard to use a software that is written in a language that you do not master, especially when it is in Chinese... You can't possibly read a word when you just don't know the characters it is made of...
To give an example of what exactly happened during the first courses (and it still happens...): during a Flash class... For your information, I use "___" for each Chinese word I don't know.
Me- (I just forgot where the bloody "path" tool is, in the numerous tabs of the UI)
---"Hey, madam, could you please help me find the___(path tool), to modify the ___(the trajectory of my character) because I just can't find it in the ___(User Interface)
With some luck, it ends with my teacher taking hold of my computer and just showing me where to find it... Or if it's a really bad day (occurs all the time), she will try to explain me, just with WORDS, you know, those words in Chinese that I still did not learn. And how does it end? By me saying "Ohoh ok ok, hao le, hao le, xie xie..." (which means "thanks a lot for helping me, even if I just did not get a word of what you were saying,I'll just wait here and die of shame while you go on with your course...")
Yep, class is fun here.
在Gjun我們都用中文的軟骨。好難啊!有的時候,我沒辦法看得懂。但是我只要習慣。最難的事是看得懂那個UI,我就先要翻譯.File,Edit,View,Modify,這樣還ok。比較工藝的字我都不會看得懂,就沒關係。不過回家的時候,看看以下,用我的字典,就要記得這個很重要的字。慢慢來,慢慢學。我在家有英文的譯文,很幸運1!
老師也很好。有問題的話,幫我一下。她將的很快,可是將得很清楚。
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