Artist + Game Designer

Stella Jacob is a multimedia artist and game designer based in Paris, France.

Her work explores dynamics of communities, overlapping offline & online worlds, deciphering their rules,edges & similarities.

Graduated from Gobelins school in Game Design, she previously worked for five years in the Virtual Reality field with Diversion cinema She has given lectures on tech ethics at Sciences Po, La Sorbonne, La Villette and more.

Stella Jacob co-founded Medulla studio,and is a member of Distraction collective.



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GAME DESIGN & CONCEPT
For authors & studio (Atlas V/Albyon, IKO, Tamanoir)
︎︎︎ ASTRA / ATLAS V
︎︎︎ BABEL / TAMANOIR

TALK & CONFERENCE
Speaking about Tech Ethics & virtual worlds for events, conferences & press.
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Artist + Game Designer

Stella Jacob is a multimedia artist based in Paris,passionate about immersive media. Graduated from Gobelins school, she previously worked for five years in the Virtual Reality field.

From trash-made costumes to video games, her work is about communities, either online or offline.



︎︎︎ Email
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ Twitter



︎︎︎GAME DESIGN & CONCEPT
For authors & studio (IKO, Tamanoir, Wild & Sweet, Tchiki Boom)

︎︎︎VIRTUAL WORLDS & MODERATION
I’ve been invited to talk about VR, immersion, & metaverse moderation as a speaker in a serie of events such as Fem&Tech Sciences Po, Octobre Numérique - Faire Monde, Virtuality & in various newspaper like Les Échos.


PLAYING THE GAME IS LETTING IT EXIST

A narrative game structured as an interview for a day trader position. Market volatility & unethical decisions are part of the offer. But remember that "Playing the game is letting it exist"!

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, DECKER ENGINE, LOW-TECH
VIDEO GAME

📈 🔁


Created during EuroPermaJam

Won the ICAN+ESAD hub’s Silver Medal




CHEZ LILA

Chez Lila is a short horror movie of a young streamer sharing her progress in game development.

[Trigger warning : Audio elements of violence/child abuse/self-harm/suffocation]


VIDEO, GAME ART, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
SHORT MOVIE

👧 🖥️


Created during Résidence Evil 2 at l’Abri Genève



DEFENSE MECHANISM

Even in a perfect garden.

︎︎︎ Fu:bar Expo 2023

DIGITAL COLLAGE, GAME ART
DIGITAL COLLAGE


👤


Exhibited at Fubar 2023



CACHE-CACHE CHEZ ARTHUR

A tiny Bitsy game about kid games & loneliness.

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, MINIMALISM, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
VIDEO GAME

🧒 😐


Created during Résidence Evil 0.5



︎︎︎ FANTHOMES

Fanthomes is a multimedia project around legend-making as a community care practice in the digital age. Legend are the first immersive collective fiction and we should be able to make our own.

︎︎︎ Read more

CO-CREATION PROJECT MADE USING VR, 360°, 180° PROJECTION, DIGITAL INTERVENTION ON GOOGLE MAPS, WRITING & COSTUME WORKSHOPS
ART INTERVENTION

🏘️ 👀


Exhibited at Spektrum

With the support of Spektrum, Esch 2022- Capital of Culture & Diversion cinema



WHERE DO DEAD MALLS GO?

Where Do Dead Malls Go? is a PS1-style exploration/narrative video game by Medulla Studio where you embody a newly employed custodian in the Daylight Mall. This deserted mall still have some collective stories to tell and that’s why you’re here.

︎︎︎ Medulla.games

VIDEO GAME, WORLDBUILDING, INTERACTION DESIGN
VIDEO GAME
in development

🛒 🐋



All4Games award

Aide à l’écriture FAJV/CNC

Daniel Sabatier Award 2021





COMMUN-

Commun- is a Social VR project conceived after my research in metaverse moderation and the need for people to discover and understand this issue.

VIRTUAL REALITY, METAVERSE
VIRTUAL REALITY
in writing

🔪 🤝


Résidence d’écriture immersive Fisheye 2022






SAD DAISY

A depressive marguerite living on the walls of Lyon, Paris & Antony, where people wonders why she’s as sad as them. She also lived on objects, embroideries, graffitis. She’s a mediumless flower.

STREET ART COLLAGE, ILLUSTRATION
STREET ART

🌼 😔




PING

PING is an alt-controller game using AR to capture the player's movement which then becomes the paddle of the famous PONG game. Played alone, the game is only one-sided and the fun never lasts very long.

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, AR, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
ALT CTRL GAME

🕹️ 👾


Gaité Lyrique
Alt Controller Game Jam





︎︎︎ SAFE DANS LE MÉTAVERS

Safe dans le Métavers is a research paper about metaverse moderation, written (in french) for Gobelins/CNAM-ENJMIN post-master degree in Interaction Design.

︎︎︎ Read more

RESEARCH, METAVERSE MODERATION
PROFESSIONAL THESIS

📝




MOURIR DEMAIN

Mourir demain is a Doom 2 mod firstly created as a tribute to ELOI - Victoire music song, using intrinsic violence of the game to talk about cop violence & youngster angst.

︎︎︎ See more

VIDEO GAME MOD, LISTENING SESSION
MUSIC VIDEO GAME

👮‍♂️🎵



Machinima version is part of the CookieCollectiveCompil




STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Bad stock photo can be harmful for an industry image and can lead to stereotypes, technical confusion & more. The project aimed to give away beautiful free stock photo of VR installation on
︎︎︎ Unsplash

PHOTOGRAPHY, COMMUNICATION, DIGITAL INTERVENTION
PHOTO

📈🥽


Featured on Unsplash, Adobe XD, Hindustan Times, World Economic Forum, Le Centquatre-Paris.




TRASH COSTUMES

A photo serie made during pandemic, using costumes made of trash to represent my worst default.

PHOTOGRAPHY, COSTUME
PHOTO

🚮 📷


Exhibited at Carbone17 as part of Quarantaine.fun exhibition





CO-LOVE

CO-LOVE is a wholesome-coop-shooting-game about LOVE. By synchronising your aim with your partner, you get to created as much rainbows in the sky than love stories on the ground.
VIDEO GAME

🌈❤️



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