SPEAKIPLAY
SPEAKIPLAY is serious game for practicing all foreign languages, a complementary tool to traditional pedagogy, that of practicing.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Gaming
- Location Cannes, France
- Currency EUR
- Founded July 2009
- Employees 5
- Website speakiplay.com
Company Summary
SPEAKiPLAY is a “serious game” having for objective to learn and to practice foreign languages through an innovative approach of video games:
to play and to think directly in a language in order to set off the automatisms for making up sentences.
The serious game industry stems from the association of:
• Training and education – “serious”
• Video game with its challenges, its pleasure and its technology – “game”
Team
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Marcos TESTAMARCKARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Marcos Testamarck, graphic designer. Artistic Director - Art Graphic teacher at CEFAG and e-Art Institute – Paris
WANADOO – Artistic Director at studio On-line Wanadoo-édition – Paris. VIRTUAL STUDIO «STORM» American Softworks - CINEGROUPE - Anima kids, Filmax. UBI-SOFT - « KIYEKO » -Narration Ben Kingsley, Pierre Tchernia. Light-Shadow -
Pascal LUBANDIRECTOR GAME DESIGNER
Award winner Best of Gaming at the Digital Media Award – Dublin 2009 – mobile platforms - RPG The One Hope – Gmedia
PC City Life – adaptation on Nintendo DS
SCEE, Ubisoft, DICE, VU Games. Splinter Cell –
Writer for Gamasutra and AFJV. International conference talks such as SIJM 2005 and GDC
Creative Director at the Barcelona studio of the Swedish Grin -Wanted, a game based on the Universal blockbuster -
Marie PRATE-LEARNING EXP.
Marie Prat – Marketing Manager and e-learning expert - Business School, - Graduate in Economic Sciences – DESS Hypermedia - Author of e-learning books – ENI Editions - Co-President of CINOV-IT – Paris - National and international expert and e-learning consultant - Teacher ICT/EICT – ESCP Europe, CEGOS
CONSEIL E-LEARNING -
Frédéric NAVILLECEO
MBA University of Hartford (CT) - USA - original concept designer, storyboard and pedagogical mechanisms. Languages: French, English, Russia, German, Chinese. All life long translator.
Manager of ALAFIAS Ingenierie a company that has been founded in 2005 to design a new type of video game and which also offers translation services.
Former Assistant of President and Vice-President of Non Governmental Organizations (ECOSOC, United Nations, N.-Y.) -
Madeleine FlanaganPedagogical expert
PhD. Trainer of trainers - Master of Media Engineering for Education, University of Poitiers, 2014 - PhD Honors - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Sorbonne, 1983 - DEA School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, 1978 - National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris 1978 - Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris 1975
GLOBAL-LT - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE - SMARTCARAVAN Tout FLE Tout FLAM - Labeled trainer for TV5Monde. -
Joel VillacampaWEB MASTER
Engineering design and development of Information Systems Engineering - Master and MAGISTERE ISI _ University of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis - 19 years of experience in professional engineering software - Developing large software in multiple languages, multiple architectures and multiple platforms (WEB). Specifications, supervision and monitoring of consultants and junior engineers.
AMADEUS (world leader in travel booking) - IBM France
Previous Investors
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JULIEN NARCYUnconfirmed
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