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Blanche Maurice

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⚙ Systems Engineer @Microids Studio Paris 🎮 Working on Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy Care deeply about simple & efficient code Porting everything everywhere Co-fondatrice des Audacieu.x.ses 🤍 My site: www.blanchemaurice.com

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Feb 15

Hej everyone 🐰

I'm Blanche, a french Systems Engineer
I worked on Syberia - The World Before and Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy
I love porting programs to different platforms

I'll be posting about what I learned and would love to discuss about architecture and low-level

#gamedev

The XBox Series box cover of Syberia The World Before

The PS5 box of Amerzone The Explorer's Legacy

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Sep 8

La jam se déroulera en ligne sur discord du 26 au 28 septembre, on clôt les inscriptions le 24 septembre au soir
itch.io/jam/la-game-...
framaforms.org/inscription-...

La Game Jam des Audacieux.ses #4

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-09-28 hosted by Les Audacieu.x.ses. La 4ème jam des Audacieux.ses se tiendra sur Discord, ___________________________________________________________________________...

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Sep 8

Hej tout le monde 👋

Si vous êtes inscrit.e.s à la jam des audacieuxses, pas d'inquiétude nous allons bientôt faire une 1ère vague d'entrées cette semaine 🤍

Déjà 21 personnes inscrites, 14 nouvelles têtes, on est super hypées de voir tout ça bouillonner de créativité ensemble 🔥

#gamedev #jeuvideo

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · May 22

Dimanche on parlera game jam en dehors du monde patriarcal 🤍 Rendez-vous sur twitch sur la chaîne des Mauvaises Herbes le Dimanche 25 à 18:30

#gamedev #jeuxvideo

Collectif Mauvaises Herbes @collectifmh.bsky.social · May 22

Les jams sont un mode de création apprécié par les développeureuses de jeux. Comment les minorités de genre s'approprient-elles ces espaces ? Chloé Desmoineaux et @blanchemaurice.com des Audacieu.x.ses nous donneront des pistes lors de notre prochain event le 25 mai à partir de 16h sur Twitch !

Mauvaises Herbes.exe
Table ronde
"Game jams en mixité choisie : se réapproprier les espaces de création"

InvitéEs
CHLOÉ DESMOINEAUX ( @chloemoineau sur instagram)
Game artist, technoféministe
BLANCHE
Ingénieure système et cofondatrice de Les Audacieu.x.ses (qui organise une jam, à retrouver sur Itch.io)
Animé par LOUIE MOON @louiemoon.bsky.social, Producer et membre du Collectif Mauvaises Herbes

MauvaisesHerbes.exe
"Espaces alt : créer en dehors de l'industrie"
Dimanche 25 mai 2025
16h : Table ronde "Designer des expériences immersives"
17h30 : Q&A "Collectif Sous les Néons : exposer et mettre en scène le JV"
18h30 : Table ronde "Game jams en mixité choisie : se réapproprier les espaces de création"

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Apr 22

The industry is in a rough shape but I found that people were still hopeful & perseverant, there'll be nice indie games released in the years to come ✨
I added to my site blanchemaurice.com the slide stack and links of my talk. There'll be a video recording available later in the year on youtube

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Site professionnel / portfolio de Blanche Maurice

blanchemaurice.com

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Apr 22

Hej everyone, Addon's finished, I had a lot of fun 🥳
Every time it's a wonderful opportunity to meet friends once again and this year it was also filled with new heads 🤍 I discussed with many interesting people, about a wide variety of topics.

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#gamedev

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

What can you do to avoid being hit by the same thing?
If you're a woman, don't
If you're old, don't either
If ancestors of your family had this, change family
Otherwise stay physically active, eat well, and hope it won't ever be your case

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

It also means that I struggle to get more than a thousand kcalories per day thus I'm constantly tired, hungry, and nauseated 🥳

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

1st medical intervention last Monday to remove the gallstone stuck outside failed so that's still a problem & I can't eat things that contains more than 1% of lipids in order to not wake up the gallbladder
No lipids is a big challenge because they are in almost 90% of what we find in supermarket

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

So it's kind of logical that I get this problem at some point but it had to happen in order for me to find out that it existed 🙁
Regarding my current situation since my time at the ER: I'm waiting for a surgery to remove the gallbladder completely.

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

The french health insurance says it can be caused by many factors including heredity, oestrogens, age, being overweight, a sedentary lifestyle, ...
Women in my family tree had this problem and it appeared for me since I started HRT going for an estradiol-only strategy implying medium-high dosage
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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

Luckily the crisis started to rescind on 3rd night and my gallbladder didn't get infected
This is called a hepatic colic, the gallstone being ejected. A gallstone stuck before reaching intestine is an acute cholecystitis, it can be really dangerous if not handled immediately due to infection risk
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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

Going to my doctor's cabinet & to the closest ER I learnt that it was a failure of my gallbladder which ejected a gallstone which got stuck before reaching intestines. My eyes started to turn yellow a little and blood samples drawn showed that bile in the gallbladder started to poison my body

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

3 weeks ago I went through 3 days of extreme pains in the abdomen, starting front on the right side and circling back behind between the shoulder blades. This was so intense that at the beginning I could barely breath and went 2 nights with close to no sleep and I couldn't eat anything either

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 21

Hej, an unusual post but one that I feel is important to communicate about a health problem that can happen to anyone and especially to my trans sisters 🥺

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#dying 💀

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 18

A game that promises fun evenings between friends, I'm eager to spend some time playing it 😁

Pixelnest Studio @pixelnest.io · Mar 18

📢 Save the date! 📢

Our arcade coop eldricht game CTHULOOT will be released on April 10th 2025 on PC!

💎 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/...
💌 Request a key: [email protected]

Watch the trailer below

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #release

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 14

Les inscriptions pour la 3ème édition de la jam des Audacieu.x.ses sont ouvertes jusqu'à Dimanche soir, si vous voulez participer mais n'êtes pas encore inscrit.e.s c'est le moment de le faire! 😁

#gamedev #jeuxvideo

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Feb 16

Les Audacieu.x.ses reviennent pour leur 3ème Game Jam !
Sur Discord, du 23 au 30 Mars 2025. Il s’agit d’une Game Jam francophone en mixité choisie*
Les inscriptions :
framaforms.org/inscription-...
Les infos :
itch.io/jam/la-game-...
Des questions :
[email protected]

#gamedev #jeuxvideo
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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 13

Je peux enfin le dire publiquement, je donnerais une conférence lors de l'Addon cette année sur l'écriture de programme multi plateforme 🥳
N'hésitez pas à me poquer les 17 et 18 Avril pour discuter 🤍

#gamedev #programming

ADDON @addon-event.bsky.social · Mar 13

Blanche Maurice 🔹 Ingénieure Systèmes

💭 "Ingénieure systèmes passionnée par ce qui concerne la programmation bas niveau. J’ai travaillé sur Windows/Linux/Android/XBox Series/PS5, des moteurs différents, sur A Confortable Burden, Syberia: The World Before et Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy"

Bandeau de présentation - Blanche Maurice

Reposted by Blanche Maurice

Damien Mayance (valryon) @Gameconf @dmayance.com · Mar 12

Avis aux #gamedev français : venez à ADDON !
Le 17 et 18 avril à Rennes, on vous prépare une super sélection de conférences et c’est l’occasion de passer un bon moment tous ensemble.

👉Infos et billets : addon.events

(Aussi, c’est le meilleur moyen de soutenir Atlangames en ces temps difficiles ❤️)

ADDON, le rendez-vous annuel des professionnels du jeux vidéo

ADDON, le rendez-vous annuel des équipes de production de jeux vidéo

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

bsky.app/profile/acer...

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

mastodon.gamedev.place/@ninepoints
bsky.app/profile/sasc...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras
bsky.app/profile/jend...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@froyok/
bsky.app/profile/newi...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@newin/
bsky.app/profile/iqui...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@mirror2mask
mastodon.social/@ado_tan

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Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

36:22 - Colour spaces
medium.com/@tomforsyth/...
github.com/TheRealMJP/B...

39:04 - Validation Layers
vulkan-tutorial.com/Drawing_a_tr...

42:35 - Peoples
bsky.app/profile/morg...
bsky.app/profile/kost...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@matiasgoldb...
bsky.app/profile/seba...

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The sRGB Learning Curve

Gamma encoding is a way to efficiently use the limited number of bits available in displays and buffers. For most monitors and image formats, we have 8 bits per channel. The naive way to distribute…

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

30:29 - Rendering Equation
learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory

32:58 - Cook-Torrance
www.pbr-book.org

33:25 - Cook-Torrance
seblagarde.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/cour...
ubm-twvideo01.s3.amazonaws.com/o1/vault/gdc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZi...

35:01 - Post processing
www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t

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LearnOpenGL - Theory

Learn OpenGL . com provides good and clear modern 3.3+ OpenGL tutorials with clear examples. A great resource to learn modern OpenGL aimed at beginners.

learnopengl.com

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

25:32 - Forward Rendering
simoncoenen.com/blog/program...

27:37 - Deferred Rendering
aschrein.github.io/2019/08/01/r...

28:19 - Real world examples of those methods
www.adriancourreges.com/blog/

28:50 - Visibility buffers
web.archive.org/web/20250221...

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DOOM Eternal - Graphics Study

A graphics study of Doom Eternal

simoncoenen.com

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

17:12 - What about if?
flashypixels.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/i...

18:41 - What about if?
medium.com/@jasonbooth_...

19:35 - Instruction Prices
seblagarde.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/i...

23:31 - Threads and data access
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDLi...

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Intro to GPU Scalarization – Part 1

Note: The following posts are going to be very GCN specific, I hadn’t made that clear enough with my first extension, hence why only this PSA at the top of the post! Sorry if you’ve alr…

flashypixels.wordpress.com

Blanche Maurice @blanchemaurice.com · Mar 6

10:18 - (Rough)(GCN/RDNA) GPU Architecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eEK...

10:59 - Let's compile your shader
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilA...

12:24 - Let's compile your shader / RDNA2 ISA
www.amd.com/system/files...

14:26 - Wavefronts and Occupancy
gpuopen.com/rga
shader-playground.timjones.io

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Optimizing for the Radeon™ RDNA Architecture

YouTube video by AMD

www.youtube.com