Paul Cuisset

Paul Cuisset signing books on the MO5.COM stand at Paris Games Week 2018, accompanied by Patricia, his wife and collaborator.

A talented programmer, Paul Cuisset got his start in video games in the 80s and founded the iconic company Delphine Softwarein 1988 with Paul de Senneville. The first masterpiece to emerge from this studio was undoubtedly Time Travellers which Paul Cuisset directed alongsideÉric Chahi.

After publishing Another Worldhe writes and programmes Flashbackreleased in 1992, whose international reputation made it the best-selling French video game in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records. This reputation enabled him to take charge of Shaq Fu in 1994, followed by a sequel to Flashback the following year, Fade to Blackone of the very first third-person action games.

This was followed by the Moto Racer as well as Darkstone. Delphine Software closed its doors in 2004, along with its subsidiary Adeline created by Frédérick Raynal. Paul Cuisset founded the company VectorCell with Lexis Numérique, for which he is designing Mister Slime in 2008 and  Amy.

Raphaël Gesqua

Born in Paris on 11 February 1972, Raphaël Gesqua got his start in electronic music with the demoscene 16-bit under the pseudonym Audiomonsterbefore making his debut in video games (under his real name) with the music for the port of Amiga finally cancelled from Snow Bros. (1990), on behalf of the French subsidiary ofOcean Software. The company closed in 1992, but Raphaël was reunited with his programmer Pierre Adane and its graphic designer Philippe Dessoly for Mr. Nutz (1993).

At the same time, he arranged the soundtrack for the Amiga version of Flashback (1992) edited by Delphine Softwarefor which he became sound director and composed the music for Shaq Fu (1994), Fade to Black (1995) and Moto Racer (1997). He then returned to freelance composing, penning numerous soundtracks, notably for the publisher Neko Entertainment (Code Lyoko, Gunslingers, Cocotoetc.). In particular, the music of Glory Days/Super Army War (2005) was hailed by the press and that of Pop Island (2009) earned him a nomination at the Video game milestone.

In 2003, he also began a career in cinema, first working on short films and then on the films Livid (2011) and In the eyes of the living (2014) by the director duo Julien Maury/Alexandre Bustillo as well as The Blood That Will Run (2016) by Christophe Monierand documentaries Super 8 Madness ! (2013) by Fabrice Blin and Kirby at War (2017) by Marc Azéma and Jean Depelley. In 2018, the publisher Microïds reveals that Raphaël Gesqua reunited with Pierre Adane and Philippe Dessoly twenty-five years later to compose the music for their remake of Toki (1989).