About Witty Wings

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About

 Witty Wings is an indie game studio founded in 2015 by three associates: Charlotte Razon, Fabrice Hagmann and David Hart.

Our goal is to widen the video game field by developing innovative gameplay and playful experiences at the opposite of the competitive and performance-driven mechanisms too often used.

All our games have singular and original narrative intentions and we pay careful attention to the craftsmanship and to the coherence between story and gameplay principles.

History

SwapTales: Leon! is deeply connected to the founding of Witty Wings. The game was first developed at ENJMIN, the French videogame school, where it was then named Michel and won the Video Game Student Grand Price at the Paris Games Week and the Multimedia Author Award of the SACD.

Then, part of the team stayed in touch after graduation to improve on the game. Charlotte, Fabrice, David and Sylvain hence developed a new prototype on their free time and renamed it SwapTales: Leon!.

In March 2015, this improved version won a video game creation contest during the Magic Festival in Monaco (organized by Shibuya Productions). The reward took the form of a 100’000 € investment to finish the game.

This fantastic opportunity met our long time desire to found a studio in order to produce and develop our own projects. Therefore, fortified by our experiences and the trust of Eric ChahiAlain Damasio and Oskar Guilbert, the Magic Festival jurors, we created Witty Wings, and SwapTales: Leon! is its first production.

Productions

Team

Charlotte Razon

Charlotte Razon

Creative director
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Charlotte Razon

Charlotte Razon

Creative director

Passionate about all the aspects of storytelling,
Charlotte studied writing and directing at the MAI,
the Belgian cinema school, and then learned
game design at ENJMIN, in France.
She has since worked as a game designer from 2012.
She has also contracted her expertise in
game design to other companies like
the CNC, Knightworks, Kids Up Hill, TeamTO,
and worked on screen writing at Normaal Animation
where she wrote 52 episodes of a new Canal+ series.

Fabrice Hagmann

Fabrice Hagmann

Art director
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Fabrice Hagmann

Fabrice Hagmann

Art director

Fabrice has always flirted with strip cartoons,
video games and animated films.
He graduated in visual communication
at the HEAD Geneva, and then specialized
in directing and writing at the MAI,
a renowned belgium cinema school,
where he graduated from in 2010.
In addition to his activity as an illustrator,
he has directed the teams of storyboard
and writing at Normaal animation for 4 years,
overseeing many series for Canal+
and FranceTV (ART, ONN / OFF, Snoopy).

David Hart

David Hart

Technical director
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David Hart

David Hart

Technical director

Oxford graduate in Computer Science,
and in programming from the ENJMIN,
the french school of video games,
David has specialized in developing games
and mobile applications. He worked in this sector
for almost 8 years.
He has noticeably produced the game GraviMaze
(450,000 downloads and iOS 4.5 stars in the US)
and many applications & games for the youth market.

They also worked on SwapTales: Leon!

Sylvain Jannot
sound designer, SwapTales: Leon!

Axel Speller
sound designer, SwapTales: Leon!

Sebastien Désarmaux
developer, SwapTales: Leon!

Didier Bazoge
developer, SwapTales: Leon!

Julie Checconi
UI designer, SwapTales: Leon!