I barely had time to rest, you were so many on the booth! You made me use all of my signed drawings paper, I had to write down some email addresses to finish the drawings at my place. Don’t worry, Clave Lisa, Jeremy and Alexandre, I won’t forget!

To hold the Silent Hill lecture was also a pleasure. It was an unique occasion to detail the history of this series I love, particularly the genesis of Team Silent and the surrealistic, existential horror of the post-mortem masterpiece Shattered Memories.

HUGE THANKS to Lyca, to Fabrice, to our amazing comrades from the Carnastudio and Superpowers booths (it was GREAT meeting your acquaintance!) and also to my friends E&F and R&V for their constant help with the material and transportation.

And finally thanks to you, audience, for all this love for the hard work of Arkh, Oraziel, Bica and myself. I can’t wait to show you more, and I can’t wait to introduce you to more of my collaborators. A lot of kisses to everyone and see you soon in the next events!

Two glimpses from Level 6, playable demo available on the booth:

Soon…

In IRL news, I’ll be at Japan Addict this weekend. June 4th-5th 2016, JAPAN ADDICT Z2, in the city of Strasbourg, at the Zenith precisely.

I will also hold a lecture about the Silent Hill series, still at Strasbourg Zenith, at 1:30 pm Saturday 4th!

In the meantime, you can look at the all-new section, the Press review, already filling with articles and interviews, or at the Artworks section – a lot of new concepts have been added since the last newsletter, including Orchidemon and Cindralia drawings.

Say farewell to Nelphis. Pantagrame: an amazing webcomic about leaving a city!

Raphael

A lot of stuff happened, and as you can see, our work advanced a lot.

New maps!

New concept arts!

New fanarts!

Youtube videos of the games!

A secret project with the illustrators Laurier Richard and Mathieu Seddas!

A Pantagrame wiki!

AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE…

Pantagrame will be at Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer, January 27-31 2016.

On February 6 the new boss and new music will come out!

Stay tuned and see you soon for more satanik news and the victory of Darkness!

Hello everyone!

As you all know, the project has quite progressed since the last newsletter. We released Boss 2 and Boss 3 and started advancing in the post-museum arc.

Looking back at what has been done, Pantagrame started in 2013. That’s 70 strips and 3 minigames a year! Not counting all of the work done on preparation: hundred of documents, notes on worldbuilding, cultures, characters, hundred of concept arts. I can’t thank enough Arkh, Oraziel and Bica, who embarked with me on this crazy journey and did (respectively) all of the programming, music and website. Pantagrame is a work of passion I’m always glad to produce for, but it would be nothing without their stunning participation! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thanks to you, readers, for obviously liking this work and sharing it further. Thanks for all the fanart and the nice messages! We’re getting stronger and stronger support!

And Pantagrame would not be the same without the various additional help, such as Raza’s work on posters, badges and printed strips for example, or Shiro’s (and other anglophone friends) betareading on the English version. It avoid me speeking an another way, about all probability less nice to the eye. Thank you too, Raza, Shiro and every friend who helped the project along the way.
We’re going to move much more quickly in the close future, towards other lands of the vast Solworld, towards other characters, strange cultures and grandiose architecture – and towards other stories as well, on other supports, Pantagrame Quest is not going to stay the only window open on this large setting. Are you ready to follow us on this trip? ARE YOU READY?
Then rendezvous this weekend! For Parisian people or visitors to the capital, the convention EPITANIME is open once again, and Pantagrame will be there! You can buy goodies there (novels, sprite comic booklets, badges, original drawings), you can talk with both Arkh and myself, you can establish new records on the various bosses or find the secret passages… and maybe you’ll learn a se-cret!
See you soon! 

Raphael

PANTAGRAME LEVEL 4

[Like every other game, you can find it on the Games page anytime!]

Playing as Tilda, explore the museum and uncover its numerous secrets!
Once again, only the most talented (or unlucky) players will discover the White Zone, full of clues about the upcoming events.

The next game, also in preparation since months, will be published 1st of September. In the meantime, the story will go on, two comic strips a week. Three when it’s a lucky week!

To talk a little about Japan Expo, it was INCREDIBLE! So much preparation, the biggest European convention, so many fans and customers… Thanks to Raza, Nô, Yoooiou, Victoria, Fyorda, Cifera, Nico and Miku, PenPen, Nube, Amo, Jamic, Chasseuse de Nuages, Amanda, Ozymandias, Hanged Bunny Studio, thanks to my collaborators Arkh and Bica who gave all of their energy, thanks to all of the Teliam Vore, Values and Alabaster readers (and hello to all of the Homestuck trolls), all of the friends and fans I forgot, all of people who came to our booth, who participated in turning this exhausting convention into five FABULOUS days!
 

You see all of the goodies, bonus and surprises we had on the booth? We’ll have a thousand more next time! Don’t miss Pantagrame’s next public appearance!

There’s also one or two surprises in the concept art and FAQ sections.

See you soon everyone!

 

Having the inside track, or knowing some circles, blogs or websites, some of you may already have learned the truth: Pantagrame will be at JAPAN EXPO!

Double booth, new levels, second boss, but not merely that! You’ll be able to see exclusive concept arts, loads and loads of goodies (the printed webcomic, Vitriol and Floreal figurines, mugs, T-shirts, etc, etc), and the Floreal contest once over again. If you want a signed drawing, you’ll just have to try and do the best time for the boss on our satanik booth!

We’ll be there from 2nd to 6th of July, at booth # CP49, in alleyway JC, Hall 6!

Oh, also, yeah, EPITANIME was amazing! Despite some technical problems, the convention was pretty good, with lot of people, and the organizers worked very hard to offer once again the EPITA experience. Thanks to them, and thanks to you, thanks to everyone who came on the booth!

Thanks to the neighbours, too, mainly Brigade SOS which helped us with logistics, and thanks to the nice Homestuck and Dangan Ronpa fans who allowed me to not die during the transportation of some of my equipment.

And congratulations to Amo (on this pic) for beating the convention’s best time for Floreal!

SATAAAAAN !

Cauchemar

GEEKOPOLIS

Some new Geekopolis pics, two weeks later.

Zelda playing the PANTAGRAME level 3, a drawing of Vitriol killing a chicken for a fan, and some amazing troll cosplayers!

End-of-convention pic with ADLB production (best booth neighbours ever!). Left to right: Pierre-Jean (ADLB), Guillaume (ADLB), Arkh (Pantagrame), Cauchemar (Pantagrame), Alexis (ADLB), Bica (Pantagrame).

Everyone was really amazing and adorable, and Arkh, Bica and myself, along with some friends (Ozma, Hitori, etc) met a lot of other great teams here: our usual friends from Crash System and Les Artistes Fous, but also Présences d’Esprits, ADLB productions, etc.

Huge thanks to everyone for such an awesome weekend!

IMAGINALES

As indicated previously, the next stop was the Epinal city for Les Imaginales. This festival is especially close to my heart, since it’s about literature and drawings. A lot of amazing artists were there.

Arkh was strong enough to be part of the adventure again, despite having had basically no rest since he got back from Japan. The man keeps jumping from party to party and con to con and these days, he’s leaving for yet another travel!

A lot of thanks to everyone again! I wasn’t expecting such success since we were a webcomic/video game, not the usual booths in Les Imaginales. Hello to Elbakin (the reference in francophone fantasy websites!), congratulations to the incredible performance artists from Tibody Paint, thanks to Olivier Lusetti, Aurélie Genêt and Gillossen for the great discussions about narration, other worlds, the accessibility of outlandish settings and sci-fi in general… And hello again to Présences d’Esprits!

Special thanks to Sarah Dunkel, an amazing artist and new author for the publisher Griffes d’Encre who traveled with us and helped greatly with the booth. Great friend and great company!

EPITANIME

The next convention… and it’s this very weekend! I don’t have much time to talk about it now, but it’ll be great too! One of the most famous anime conventions in Paris, and we’re going to be there, right here, right now!

For the triumph of darkness, for rivers of blood, for neverending screams and absolute despair… For SATAN FOREVER!

Cauchemar

(First photos by Julien Cousin)

I’m leaving to prepare another convention, this week: IMAGINALES, in the city of Epinal, 22th-25th of May. Both Arkh and myself (Cauchemar) will be by the booth !

Finally, new pics were added to the CONCEPT ART page.

Hello there! How are you, everyone? There’s much to say today, so I’ll give clear titles to the various parts of the newsletter.

CONVENTION NEWS

Back from Lyon! It was amazing, I had WAY more people at the booth than I thought I would. Our composer Oraziel was able to come, we had a lot of fun!

Some pics:

We are going to attend a LOT of conventions this Spring. I probably won’t be able to obtain pics of each booth, but I’ll try! I’ll also keep the CALENDAR updated.

Next cons are Geekopolis (Paris, 17-18th of May), with our webmaster Bica and our programmer Arkh right back from Japan, and Imaginales (Epinal, 22-23-24-25 of May). Stay in touch!

PROJECT NEWS

We are only days away from publishing level 2. Which is now LEVEL 4, by the way. After a lot of thinking, seeing people in conventions had difficulties grasping the zones/levels dichotomy, and noticing the website’s visitors sometimes outright MISS zone B and zone C, I’ve decided to restructure the games like this:

Level 1 1 Zone A = Level 1

Level 1 Zone B = Level 2

Level 1 Zone C = Level 3

As the most dedicated fans may already know, at the beginning, I wanted all three zones to be one big level. But technical limitations didn’t allow it; I had to divide, first by portals, second by different games/pages, and I finally understood it’s just clearer to make the zones into levels.

Level 2… well, Level 4, will appear soon!

WEBSITE NEWS

To follow this restructuration, I’ve entirely redesigned the GAMES page. The old one was cute, but without any visual quality to it, and really, too chatty. With the number of future levels and boss, it would become a mile long.

If people wonder why Jovy’s face is featured four times, hey, remember, you’ll play as other characters too! In the future, it’ll be nice to know with a single gaze who you’re playing as.

I’ve also redesigned the AUTHORS page. Once again, the old one was cute and nice and everything, but it was visually too close to the CHARACTERS page. Plus it didn’t say much about Oraziel, Arkh, Bica and myself.

Finally, I’m adding some new CONCEPT ART, mainly the first drafts of the Lustral design, but also this masterpiece which waited too long to be published: