This week, Haven is part of the LudoNarracon Festival. During this event, we are organizing several activities, including this Q&A, that gathers a big part of the team to be able to answer more of your questions!
This week, and for the first time, 5 team members of The Game Bakers will answer all your questions about Haven. This is going to be an intense Q&A with 10 hands!
Emeric Thoa, Creative Director and The Game Bakers co-founder, took care of a lot of things on Haven. He was also the Producer and Game Designer on the game.
Audrey Leprince, is the other co-founder of The Game Bakers, she took care of the executive production as well as the publishing of the game.
Anthony Beyer, is the Artistic Director & Tech Artist on Haven. He was instrumental creating the world and characters of source in 3D!
Pierre Corbinais is the writer for Haven. He gave life to Yu and Kay, and wrote the dialogues that made you smile.
Mylene Lourdel, that's me! I was in charge of the communication and marketing of Haven! I usually don't get any question but you never know ;)
The Q&A will take place on our Discord Server. You will be able to ask your questions between 4 PM CET (7 AM PT) and 5:30 PM (8:30 AM PT) and then the devs will answer them right away!
If you want to ask why the planet is called Source, how Oink was created or who invented Air Birble, this is a perfect time!
------------------------------------------------- What is LudoNarracon?
LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, hosted on Steam. An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller, it aims to create a platform to showcase and celebrate interesting and innovative narrative games, replicating as many of the aspects and benefits of the physical convention experience as possible within a digital format.
LudoNarracon: Watch the first hours of Haven! (Spoilers)
Hello everyone,
I hope you are well! LudoNarracon is starting soon and we are glad to be part of it with our sci-fi RPG adventure about love and freedom, Haven. LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, hosted on Steam. You can find more info about it here.
Today, to celebrate the start of LudoNarracon, we will share with you the first hours of Haven! If you are wondering what Haven is about, it's the perfect occasion to discover the game without any commentary. The game is played by Marjorie, graphic artist behind Haven.
The broadcast will start on Friday at 10 PM (CET) / 3 PM (PT) on Steam!
As always, don't hesitate to join our Discord channel and let us know what you think! Or just generally hang out with us. :)
Ludonarracon: A conversation with Haven developers over the game beginning
Hello everyone,
We hope you are doing well and you are waiting for LudoNarracon!
In this stream, Haven's writer, Pierre Corbinais and executive producer Audrey Leprince sit down with Trish who is playing through Haven.
Pierre Corbinais is the writer of Haven, he gave life to Yu and Kay and wrote the dialogues that made you smile.
Audrey Leprince, is the co-founder of The Game Bakers, and she took care of the executive production as well as the publishing of the game.
Trish was part of the team too, helping on the communication part.
During the session, they talk about some of the ideas behind the creation of Haven and how the relationship between the two lovers is at the core of the game.
Tune in on Sunday 25th April at 8 PM (CET) / 11 AM (PT) on Steam, and enjoy!
As always, don't hesitate to join our Discord channel and let us know what you think! Or just generally hang out with us. :)
------------------------------------------------- What is LudoNarracon?
LudoNarraCon is a digital convention celebrating narrative video games, hosted on Steam. An initiative of indie label Fellow Traveller, it aims to create a platform to showcase and celebrate interesting and innovative narrative games, replicating as many of the aspects and benefits of the physical convention experience as possible within a digital format.
Haven Fan Art Contest Winners Revealed!
Hello everyone,
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Haven community week and in the Haven fan art contest.
We’ve received a lot of submissions! It was so hard for us to narrow it down to just 4, to be quite frank.
Our jury consisted of:
Emeric Thoa - Creative Direction, Design, Production
Congrats to all 4, we will be in touch shortly about your goodies. ;)
We also want to give a special shout-out to everyone else, because we’re honestly in awe by the amount of fan art we’ve received. So, please enjoy the rest of the submissions below:
The celebration week for Haven has now come to an end. We’re so grateful and humbled to be part of an amazing community such as this one. We hope you enjoyed the events and surprises this week as much as we did!
It was a week of many highlights for us. We are so proud that Haven was awarded the Best Indie Game & Best Characters award at the Pégases ceremony.
We were also extremely happy to have had the chance to produce Danger unique virtual concert and offer it for free to everyone. The virtual concert, entirely imagined and created by Danger, featured music from Haven and Furi's soundtracks and from his album Origins. You can rewatch it here.
Simon “Hutt” Trousselier, the game Art Director and Concept Artist drew live an environment for Haven. The replay is available on our youtube channel.
Danger, the composer of Haven Original Soundtrack and Emeric Thoa and Audrey Leprince our studio co-founders also participated in some Ask Me Anything on our Discord server, you can still read them!
Lastly, in case you missed it, there are still a few more days for our Fan Art contest! You can read all the details in the dedicated newspost.
Thank you so much for being awesome and for your support.
The Game Bakers Team
Exclusive Q&A with musician and artist Danger
Hi everyone,
We are celebrating Haven’s amazing community this week. You can see all the program here.
We hope you enjoyed Haven Virtual Concert by Danger yesterday as much as we did! If you missed it you can watch the replay on YouTube!
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Today Danger, musician, designer, gamer, video maker, visual artist… and also the composer of Haven Original Soundtrack and of some very precious tracks on Furi Original Soundtrack will answer your questions during a Ask me Anything session. You can also read the special interview we made on this occasion!
The AMA will take place on our Discord Server Sunday, March 21st, from 17h to 18h CET / 9 to 10 AM PT.
It’s a unique opportunity to talk with an artist as secretive as Danger. Navigating between the world of music and the world of graphic design and video games he has kept an anonymous stage persona since the start of his career and never revealing much about his identity. His dark and mysterious universe contributes to the spectacular nature of his music. Listen his albums “太鼓” and “Origins” and read this interview of him here.
If you want to ask how different it is to create an album or a game soundtrack, ask him more about the virtual concert from yesterday, or what are his inspirations or more, do not miss the event!
Haven Virtual Concert by Danger
Hello everyone,
At a time when everyone has been deprived way too long of the energy of concerts and musical events, we have teamed up with Danger and G4F Records to propose a free virtual concert to celebrate music and connect game and music fans around the world.
The unique virtual concert, entirely designed by artist and musician Danger will last about 15 minutes and feature tracks from The Game Baker’s games Haven and Furi original soundtracks as well as from the Origins album, around a virtual stage set in the artist's mysterious universe.
“This is a tribute to all the video game characters whom I grew up with. Haven characters have welcomed me into their world, now it is my turn to welcome them into mine...” says Danger.
The concert will take place Saturday, March 20th at 23h CET / 3PM PT and will be hosted on partner Twitch channels. You will find the list of channels here: thegamebakers.com/danger/.
Haven Community Week: Art Livestream
Hello everyone,
This is day 5 of our Haven Community Week. Until Sunday, we are celebrating Haven’s amazing community through special events and surprises. You can read all the details here.
Simon "Hutt" Troussellier was Art Director and Concept Artist on Haven. In particular, he created many of the environments you explore in the game, and gave a lot of personality to Source. He loves cables, ruins and pink and blue colors.
For one hour, you will be able to see him drawing live an environment from Haven, while listening to Haven soundtrack by Danger.
The livestream will start at 22h CET / 4 PM PT today and will last for one hour on Twitch, YouTube and Steam.
Open your eyes and enjoy the journey!
As always, feel free to join us on Discord to come to hang out with the amazing community!
Haven Community Week: Q&A with Emeric Thoa and Audrey Leprince
Hi here,
We are celebrating Haven’s amazing community with a Community Week this week. You can read all the details about it here
Emeric Thoa, Creative Director and The Game Bakers co-founder, took care of a lot of things on Haven. He was also the Producer and Game Designer on the game.
Audrey Leprince, is the other co-founder of The Game Bakers, and she took care of the executive production as well as the publishing of the game.
The Q&A will take place on our Discord Server Thursday March 18th 2021, from 6 PM CEST to 7 PM CEST (10 AM PT to 11 AM PT).
If you want to ask how the idea of the game was born, why the grass is blue or how we designed Yu and Kay, you should be there!
Haven won Best Indie Game and Best Character at the Pégases Awards
Hello everyone,
We are so proud that Haven won Best Indie Game and Best Character at the Pegases2021 Awards! What a recognition! Thank you everyone and a HUGE thank you to our awesome team for their amazing work.
Haven was nominated for 6 awards at the Pégases Awards ceremony. In a similar manner to the Cesars for the French movie industry, or the BAFTA in the United Kingdom, 1500 members of the French game industry have voted to honour the best games created in 2020, from France (with a special category for international games). The winners are presented in a 1h30 ceremony streamed live on Steam. The ceremony is in French with English subtitles.
You can find all the games nominated on a special page for the event!
Haven, which was the most nominated game, was in competition for:
Best Indie Game
Best Audio
Best Narrative Design
Best Universe
Best Character
Best Message-Bearer Game
We created a special room in our Discord channel to watch the ceremony while chatting with the team! You can join us on Discord.
