{"id":2750,"date":"2014-01-29T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2018-01-04T20:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:44:59","slug":"animal-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/animal-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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L’ann\u00e9e 2012 a \u00e9t\u00e9, pour moi, assez f\u00e9conde en termes de cr\u00e9ation ludique, surtout si je la compare avec les deux pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes. Si j’ai con\u00e7u pas mal de jeux, c’est parce que j’y ai consacr\u00e9 de nouveau beaucoup de temps et d’\u00e9nergie, mais c’est aussi parce que je me suis un peu sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 sur les jeux l\u00e9gers, simples, et notamment les “party games”, qui demandent certes plus d’id\u00e9es, plus d’imagination, mais aussi moins de tests et de r\u00e9glages, moins de travail. Peut-\u00eatre parce que j’avais un peu d\u00e9laiss\u00e9 la cr\u00e9ation auparavant, les id\u00e9es sont venues assez ais\u00e9ment, et cela a donn\u00e9 Devine qui vient d\u00eener ce soir, Speed Dating, Mascarade, The Big Movie, Rumble in the Jungle et quelques autres – certains \u00e9dit\u00e9s ou en passe de l’\u00eatre, d’autres non.<\/p>\n

\"Renard<\/a>

Renard na\u00eff – Naive Fox<\/p><\/div>\n

Cela a donn\u00e9 surtout un jeu d\u00e9lirant, dont le nom h\u00e9sita longtemps entre Mouette Rieuse et Sitting Bull, mais pourrait aussi \u00eatre H\u00e9risson Amoureux, Bison Fut\u00e9 ou Y\u00e9ti enrhum\u00e9. La Mouette Rieuse est, apr\u00e8s Speed Dating, le deuxi\u00e8me jeu que j’ai imagin\u00e9 avec Nathalie Grandperrin. Nous venions de mettre la derni\u00e8re main \u00e0 notre premi\u00e8re s\u00e9rie de cartes de Speed Dating, nous \u00e9tions plut\u00f4t contents de nous et, devant quelques bi\u00e8res dans un bar d’Avignon, nous avons commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 penser \u00e0 d’autres mani\u00e8res de combiner des cartes pour obtenir des r\u00e9sultats improbables et farfelus. Nous pens\u00e2mes aux marabouts, retour imm\u00e9diat de l’\u00eatre aim\u00e9 et r\u00e9ussite aux examens, aux gourous et aux religions, puis aux chats, \u00e0 leurs humeurs et leurs \u00e9motions. Les chats, c’est tendance, c’est mignon, et Nathalie les aime bien, mais c’\u00e9tait quand m\u00eame un peu limit\u00e9 et nous \u00e9larg\u00eemes donc rapidement le sujet \u00e0 l’ensemble des animaux. \u00c0 partir de l\u00e0, tout est all\u00e9 tr\u00e8s vite – en quelques jours, nous avions une liste d’une centaine d’animaux et d’une centaine d’adjectifs, qui n’ont gu\u00e8re chang\u00e9 depuis permettant de faire des combinaisons dont nous n’avons pas tout de suite r\u00e9alis\u00e9 qu’elles pouvaient \u00eatre aussi des noms tot\u00e9miques scouts ou indiens. Tout de suite, allez savoir pourquoi, le jeu s’est appel\u00e9 La Mouette Rieuse – mais cela aurait pu \u00eatre la gu\u00eape en col\u00e8re. On a pens\u00e9 aussi, pour faire indien \u00e0 Sitting Bull, mais c’\u00e9tait moins dr\u00f4le en fran\u00e7ais, et \u00e0 Totem, mais Tom aurait r\u00e2l\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Prototype<\/p><\/div>\n

Animal Suspect, puisque c’est finalement son nom, est sans doute mon pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 parmi les jeux sur lesquels j’ai travaill\u00e9 l’an dernier. Lors des soir\u00e9es auxquelles j’ai apport\u00e9 mes assez nombreux prototypes, il a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s appr\u00e9ci\u00e9, les parties commen\u00e7ant \u00e0 quatre ou cinq et se terminant avec, autour de la table, une douzaine de personnes jouant dans un certain d\u00e9sordre. C’est un jeu d’ambiance rapide et jubilatoire, plein de mimes et de bruits d’animaux, permettant de m\u00ealer les plus jeunes aux plus \u00e2g\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

M\u00eame si Nathalie \u00e9tait plus prudente, j’\u00e9tais certain que, comme cela avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le cas pour Speed Dating, Sitting Bull allait imm\u00e9diatement convaincre le premier \u00e9diteur auquel nous allions le montrer. Cela n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 le cas. Entre ceux dont la programmation \u00e9tait pleine pour les deux ou trois ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir, ceux qui ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 un jeu de mime dans leur catalogue et craignaient de le cannibaliser, ceux qui ne veulent pas de jeu “language dependent”, personne ne semblait vouloir de ce petit jeu de cartes sans pr\u00e9tention, pourtant amusant et plut\u00f4t facile \u00e0 \u00e9diter. Avec d’autres jeux, j’aurais sans doute renonc\u00e9, mais je croyais suffisamment \u00e0 celui-ci pour insister lourdement et, notamment, relancer r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement la jolie Mathilde de Gigamic. Quelques jours avant le salon de Cannes, elle a fini par y jouer; on a refait une partie sur la salon – Mathilde \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s bien en Moustique en rut – et, une dizaine de jours plus tard, la d\u00e9cision \u00e9tait prise, et La Mouette en vol pour les terres du Nord.
\nJe connais depuis bien longtemps l’\u00e9quipe de Gigamic. Il y a une vingtaine d’ann\u00e9es de cela, alors que j’habitais \u00e0 Lille et qu’ils \u00e9taient encore avant tout les \u00e9diteurs de l’excellent Quarto, nous nous croisions assez r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement. Leur politique \u00e9ditoriale, d’abord focalis\u00e9e sur les jeux de strat\u00e9gie abstraits, puis sur une gamme tr\u00e8s familiale, a rarement coll\u00e9 avec mes cr\u00e9ations, et nous d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rions un peu de r\u00e9ussir un jour \u00e0 travailler ensemble. Je suis bien content qu’Animal Suspect nous ait finalement r\u00e9unis!<\/p>\n

Animal Suspect<\/strong>
\nUn jeu de Bruno Faidutti & Nathalie Grandperrin
\nIllustr\u00e9 par Swal
\n3 \u00e0 8 joueurs
\nPubli\u00e9 par Gigamic
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2012 was a very productive year for me, at least if compared with the two former ones. I designed more games because I devoted more time and energy to it, but also because I focused on lighter designs, and specifically party games. These require more ideas, and clear ideas, but also less testing, less tuning, less work. Ideas came easily, probably because I had stocked them in the former, less creative years. The result was a series of lighter designs – Guess who’s coming for dinner, Speed Dating, The Big Movie, Mascarade, Rumble in the Jungle – some have been or will be published, some are still looking for a publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Canari<\/a>

Canari charmeur – Seductive Canary<\/p><\/div>\n

Last but not least was a zany card game whose name was one day Sitting Bull, the next day Laughing Seagull, but could also be Hungry Panda, Charming Bigfoot or Gay Hedgehog. Sitting Bull is the second game I designed together with Nathalie Grandperrin. We had just finished our first batch of 300 Speed Dating cards, were quite proud of ourselves, and were drinking beers in an Irish pub in Avignon, trying to find other ways of combining cards to generate fun and unexpected combos. We\u00a0 thought of the fun parisian african healers and sorcerers flyers, of gurus and zany religions, of cats qnd their mysterious ways and emotions. Cats are trendy and cute, and Nathalie loves them, but it was a bit limited as a game theme, so we broadened the topic and decided to use all kinds of animals. Things went very fast from there, and a few days later we had a long list of about hundred animals and their possible emotions. We didn’t realize at once that these combos could also be native american names, and the game possibly have an indian setting. For some reason, we soon called the game “Laughing Seagull”, though I adapted this into Sitting Bull when I made an english language prototype, and the publisher renamed it Animal Suspect.<\/em><\/p>\n

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English language prototype<\/p><\/div>\n

Animal Suspect is probably my favorite among the several games I worked on last year. At my gaming nights, and at the several conventions and gaming week-ends I attended this year, it was my most popular prototype. Game sessions started with 4 or 5 players and end with a dozen people\u00a0 laughing and shouting in a complete mess around the gaming table – the token of a great game. Sitting Bull is a fast paced and incredibly fun party game, which can bring together all generations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nathalie was more skeptical, but I believed that, like Speed Dating (which, by the way, is still looking for an English language publisher), Animal Suspect will immediately win over the first publisher who will see it. It didn’t. Some had already a full schedule for the next years, especially with party games, others didn’t want a mime game that could cannibalize the sales of another one in their catalog, others didn’t want a game strongly language dependent, and of which no international edition was possible – even when they all admitted it was incredibly fun and quite easy to produce. With other designs, I would probably have given up, but I really believed in this one and regularly fostered Mathilde, the pretty commercial at Gigamic. A few days before the Cannes festival, she finally emailed me that she had played the game and liked it a lot. We played another game during the fair – Mathilde played an impressive Horny Mosquito – and a dozen days later she had convinced everyone at Gigamic that they had to publish our Laughing Seagull. I know the people at Gigamic for more than twenty years, having met them often when I used to live in Northern France. Unfortunately, they focused first on abstract strategy games, which are not my cup of tea, and then on vert light family games when I was mostly designing more complex and geeky stuff. I wanted to work with them, they wanted to work with me, but it never fitted so far. That’s why I’m really happy that, in the end we made it with Animal Suspect.<\/em><\/p>\n

Animal Suspect<\/strong>
\nA game by Bruno Faidutti & Nathalie Grandperrin
\nGraphics by Swal
\n3 to 8 players
\nPublished by Gigamic
\nBoardgamegeek<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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