Jérôme Hatton is the Director of Ludus Académie, a video and serious games design and development school based in Strasbourg (France), and in Brussels (Belgium). A member of the FEDE, he presents his institution.
How do you benefit from the FEDE?
Video games and serious games are rather new and innovative sectors that are constantly developing. As such, thanks to the FEDE, we have been able to obtain accreditation for our diplomas. They adapt perfectly to the changes in the market and to the growing needs of the companies in the sector.
What programmes do you offer?
After a high school diploma, we offer three diploma levels: bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees. Ludus Académie trains young people on development techniques, i.e. programming, artificial intelligence, scriptwriting, game design and level design, and, lastly, serious games, which are increasingly marketable in the job market.
Thanks to this quality training, many companies trust us and entrust us with their projects in the fields of art, health and architecture. These missions enable students to work in project mode and to gain experience. As such, after completing their programmes, their CVs are enhanced and their job market integration facilitated.
What are the specificities of your school?
Video games are still poorly understood. So we created, on the one hand, an events department, Ludus Events, with the aim of organising or co-organising events based on video games, such as the major video games festival of Strasbourg, or the Mario Kart World Championships.
On the other hand, we have also established a museum, the Pixel Museum. This first Francophone video games museum that located in Schiltigheim and is only a few minutes away from Strasbourg, provides an opportunity to discover the history of video games. More than a museum, it presents an opportunity to play and to discover our students’ contemporary, artistic and independent creations. This provides a wonderful showcase of their talent with the aim of finding the employers of tomorrow.
