david calvo

[about] [song of beulah] [blag]

1974

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

NOVELS

* 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)

SHORT STORIES && POEISIS

* 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 Poétique 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)
* 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)
* le sourire du momrath -- smile, then, die - in chasseurs de rêves #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)

GAMES

* islands of wakfu -- a mythological beat'em up (ankama play, xbox live arcade)
* wakfu (MMORPG, ankama games / square enix, PC)
* worship prokra -- a fight against the last demon god (self-aid)
* dream of lu-fu -- a musical landscape (ankama play, PC)
* dead pixel -- a pixel tamagotchi (PC, ankama play)
* 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 éric 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)

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

* pomofrag -- a tumblr
* 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)
* playpower -- game designer for the best project ever.

MORE

* @metagaming
* linkedin
* FR wiki -- up to date bibliography of previously published materials


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last updated on january 22th 2012.
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