About
Hello there ! I’m Emilie Breslavetz : )
I’m a French experimental game designer and playful artist based in Paris. I make alternative controllers, playful installations and weird video games which I call my “Playful Machines“. I program interactive softwares for which I build physical and analog interfaces by mixing electronic components and crafting materials.
I like to explore new ways to play, gather people and express oneself by hijacking game mechanics or working on meaningful game design between physical and virtual media.
Over the past few years, I have worked on many other video games and prototypes in solo or on collaborative projects during game jam. You can find most of these games on my itch profile.
I am also working in duo with game developer and technical artist Léon Denise on several playful installations. Especially, we made Crashboard that we continue to showcase in numerous places and festivals. Together we created Incontrolab, a collective laboratory of techno-fun experimentations.
Since 2021, I have been part of the Cookie Collective with whom I expose some of my controllers during hybrid concert-exhibition events. The Cookie Collective gathers digital artists involved in real-time creation. This covers video games, art installations, video mapping, demoscene, algorave, etc.
Beginning of 2024, my associate Léon Denise and I joined Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Olivier Drouet to be part of the association CTRL+ALT Baguette whose purpose is the development, diffusion and promotion of video game artistic creations combining tangible and digital works.
At the end of 2024, I started streaming on Twitch under my pseudo EmilieCorne. With this new activity, I want to explore alternative controllers as a performative medium by building original controllers to play existing games in a new way. I am also interested in creating new game mechanics between Twitch chat and my playthrough. At the same time, I also use this platform to discover various weird and unknown indie games as I’m myself working on experimental games.
Training
- MASTER’S DEGREE – Digital Interactive Games and Medias : Game Design specialty
ENJMIN, Angoulême, FRANCE, 2014-2016 - BACHELOR’S DEGREE – Professionnal License : Game Design
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, FRANCE, 2013-2014 - BACHELOR’S DEGREE – BTS Graphic Design : Multimedia
Lycée Léonard de Vinci, Montaigu, FRANCE, 2010-2012 - HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA – Industrial Science and Technologies : Applied Arts
Lycée Charles Péguy, Orléans, FRANCE, 2010
Residencies
- Arcade Mayhem – Robogotchi
Sickhouse, Enschede, NETHERLANDS, March 2025 - Open Ateliers Version Longue – Orbital & YOGAÏE
Labomedia, Orléans, FRANCE, July 2024 - The Brain 7 – The Quilt
A MAZE, Online, GERMANY/FRANCE, September to October 2021 - Création en Cours – Playful Moods & Talk
Ateliers Médicis, Champigny-sur-Marne, FRANCE, January to July 2021 - The HIVE – Audio Crumbs & Musical Steps
thecamp, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE, April 2018 to February 2019
Talks / Panels
- Panel : “Créer des jeux alternatifs en collectif”
Collectif Mauvaises Herbes, FRANCE, February 2025 - Hypertalk : “A year of Making Crashboard”
A MAZE, Sheffield, UK, August 2024 - Panel : “Making Enchanted Controllers”
A MAZE, Berlin, GERMANY, May 2024 - Panel : “Contrôleurs alternatifs : et si on jouait autrement ?”
Indie Game Lyon #5, Lyon, FRANCE, February 2024 - Interview : “Cyberflemme #4”
Station Station, Paris, FRANCE, September 2023 - Talk : “Playful Machines : Creating alternative game controllers”
China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, CHINA, June 2019
Workshops / Mentorship
- Workshop : learning to build alternative controllers with Makey Makey
A MAZE, Berlin, GERMANY, May 2024 - This Is Not A Video Game : mentorship on an Alt Ctrl oriented Game Jam
Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FRANCE, May 2022 - Playful Moods : 6-months workshops with Primary school children on Alt Ctrl
Création en Cours – Ateliers Médicis, Champigny-sur-Marne, FRANCE, January to June 2021 - Playshop : A Shop for Games : 1-month workshop with art school students on Alt Ctrl
China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, CHINA, June 2019
Exhibitions
2025
- Lab R&C at Recto VRso – Crashboard
Recto VRso, Laval, FRANCE, 10-13 April 2025 - A MAZE. Pop-Up at GameCon Central Asia – Crashboard
A MAZE., Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN, 14-15 March 2025 - Playtime 20.25 – Crashboard, Orbital & Miroir Arcade
Playtime, Bruges, BELGIUM, 8-9 March 2025 - JEF Festival – Climbump
JEF, Antwerp, BELGIUM, 16 February-9 March 2025 - Les Vacances Numériques – Crashboard
Carrefour Numérique², Paris, FRANCE, 15 February-2 March 2025 - La Petite Game Buvette #3 – Le RDV des Makers – Orbital & YOGAÏE
Carrefour Numérique² & CTRL+ALT Baguette, Paris, FRANCE, 18 January 2025
2024
- Playtopia – Crashboard
Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA, 6-7 December 2024 - Hagelslag – Crashboard
De Spil, Roeselare, BELGIUM, 27-30 October 2024 - Théodasium – Crashboard
Thiais, FRANCE, 19-20 October 2024 - ALT+CTRL+PLAY – Crashboard
French Institute & Cookie Collective, Bucharest, ROMANIA, 17 October 2024 - A MAZE. Digital Playground at gamescom – Crashboard
A MAZE., Köln, GERMANY, 21-25 August 2024 - A MAZE. / Sheffield – GLUM Special Party Edition – Crashboard
A MAZE., We Throw Switches & Boneloaf, Sheffield, UK, 2nd August 2024 - La Petite Game Buvette #2 – Le RDV des Makers – Climbump
Carrefour Numérique² & CTRL+ALT Baguette, Paris, FRANCE, 15 June 2024 - Ctrl. Bending – Pad Pot & Control(s)
Sickhouse, Enschede, NETHERLANDS, 25 May-30 June 2024 - A MAZE. 13th – Crashboard
A MAZE., Berlin, GERMANY, 8-11 May 2024 - ALGORAVE GZ – Pad Pot & Nailed It
Cookie Collective, Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, FRANCE, 27 April 2024 - Numok – Crashboard
Bibliocité, Paris, FRANCE, 17 April-4 May 2024 - NOW PLAY THIS – Crashboard
Now Play This, London, UK, 6-14 April 2024 - Collisions Hivernales – Crashboard & Climbump
Cookie Collective, Montreuil, FRANCE, 10 March 2024 - Anima Festival – Crashboard
Anima, Brussells, BELGIUM, 23 February, 3 March 2024 - JEF Festival – Crashboard
JEF, Antwerp, BELGIUM, 4-18 February 2024 - La Petite Game Buvette #1 – Le RDV des Makers – Crashboard
Carrefour Numérique² & CTRL+ALT Baguette, Paris, FRANCE, 27 January 2024
2023
- The Overkill Festival – Crashboard & Têtardise
Sickhouse, Enschede, NETHERLANDS, 15-19 November 2023 - Bazars Numériques – Crashboard & Retro Arcade
Médiathèque de Bar-Sur-Seine, FRANCE, 16-28 October 2023 - Indie Showcase – Crashboard
Indie Showcase, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 13-14 October 2023 - A MAZE. Digital Playground – Crashboard
A MAZE., Berlin, GERMANY, 11 August 2023 - A MAZE. 12th x Crash Party – Pad Pot, Crashboard, Climbump & Nailed It
A MAZE. & Cookie Collective, panke.gallery, Berlin, GERMANY, 11-13 May 2023 - JEF Festival – Miroir Arcade
JEF, Antwerp, BELGIUM, 11-26 February 2023
2022
- PlayBern – Control(s) & Retro Arcade
PlayBern, Bern, SWITZERLAND, 2-4 September 2022 - Festival de la Créativité Numérique – Miroir Arcade, Control(s) & Retro Arcade
Labomedia, Orléans, FRANCE, 21 June 2022 - Athens Digital Arts Festival – FutuRetro – Control(s)
ADAF, Athens, GREECE, 25-29 May 2022 - This Is Not A Fu%ing Museum – Talk
Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FRANCE, 20-22 May 2022 - Live Code Play – Miroir Arcade, Control(s) & Retro Arcade
Cookie Collective, Montreuil, FRANCE, 23 Avril 2022 - Au delà des Pixels – Miroir Arcade
36 Degrés, Garage Amelot, Paris 11, FRANCE, 18-20 Mars 2022
2016-2021
- 21st Berlin French Film Week – The Quilt
French Institute, Berlin, GERMANY, 25-28 November 2021 - Creative Connection – Audio Crumbs
thecamp, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE, 26-28 September 2018 - Stunfest 12th Edition – Wasted
Rennes, FRANCE, 20-22 May 2016 - Radius Festival Vienna – Wasted
Vienna, AUSTRIA, 21-24 July 2016 - Game Access ’16 – Wasted
Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC, 15-16 April 2016