Projet : Production of animations to promote the books published by Third editions publishing house.
Third Éditions is a publishing house founded by Mehdi El Kanafi and Nicolas Courcier. It is dedicated to the video-gaming world. In 2010, Mehdi and Nicolas co-founded a publishing firm, Console Syndrome, which was bought one year later by a major publisher of video game books and magazines. Over the following four years, they edited and co-wrote twenty books, among them: Zelda. Chronicles of a Legendary Series, Metal Gear Solid: Hideo Kojima’s Magnum Opus, and The Legend of Final Fantasy VII. Since 2015, their publishing endeavors have seen them analyze major video game sagas through a new publishing house: Third.
Dragon Quest
Dragon Quest, published by Square enix, is a historic Japanese role-playing saga. It is so well known and respected that a memorial has been dedicated to it in the town of Sumoto, the birthplace of the series’ creator, Yûji Horii, who is as much a legend today as his work. But Dragon Quest is much more than just a J-RPG.
As a journalist for over twenty years, Daniel Andreyev will introduce you to the Dragon Quest saga from a new angle, as a major social phenomenon that has influenced several generations of Japanese. In the pages of this book, he brings his expertise in Japanese gaming, backed up by his knowledge of Japan, to bear on the analysis of Square Enix’s series.
Cowboy bebop
A film noir atmosphere, blues music, cigarettes, whisky and spaceships – that’s the crazy cocktail that has made Cowboy Bebop one of the most popular and respected Japanese animation series. And now, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this monument to Japanese animation, Third Editions is offering an event book looking back at the creation of each episode, analysing their content and deciphering all their secrets. The Bebop crew awaits you!
The witcher
In just three episodes, The Witcher has rapidly become a benchmark in its genre. Developed from Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy book, The Witcher, the video games produced by Poland’s CD Projekt RED are the fruit of literary inspiration combined with narrative, aesthetic and gameplay creations that have never ceased to grow in ambition.
To write this book, Benoît ‘ExServ’ Reinier went to CD Projekt’s premises to meet the people who have devoted several years of their lives to bringing these games and this rich universe to life.
In The Ascension of The Witcher: A New King of RPG, thanks to the support of the Polish studio, the author offers a unique and analytical look behind the scenes at the development of the trilogy, the history of the games and their many ramifications, and the evolution of their game design.
Hayao Miyazaki
With his poetic direction and universal themes such as the importance of nature, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most respected artists in the world of cinema and animation.
Initially reserved for a Japanese audience, his works eventually reached the Western market. In France, Le Voyage de Chihiro and Le Château ambulant have sold over a million tickets in cinemas.
This book looks at the personality of this atypical auteur and his collaborators, then deciphers, film by film, the profound themes that run through all his work and make Miyazaki a humanist and essential filmmaker.
Cover design by Atelier Sento.
Uncharted
Mario and Sonic are household names, but Nathan Drake, the hero of the Uncharted games, is fast becoming an equally popular media icon. Sony’s flagship Uncharted series has become a major industry saga since its first instalment in 2007 on PlayStation 3. The work of the brilliant Naughty Dog studio, Uncharted is a series of action-adventure games, a modern Indiana Jones, a male Lara Croft.
In this book, all the games’ secrets will be revealed, the universe will be explored in detail, and the gameplay mechanics of all the episodes will be explained.
Diablo
Diablo is a legendary series that began on the PC, but is now familiar to everyone, even console gamers. Diablo is so important to the history of video games that it has even created a new genre: hack ‘n’ slash. Under the stewardship of publisher Blizzard, the series has had an eventful history, punctuated by episodes of glory and decline.
Benoît Reinier, aka ‘ExServ’, is a specialist journalist working for one of France’s leading websites, Gamekult, and is extremely popular on YouTube. He was able to meet the creators of Diablo. Drawing on such first-hand sources, this book will cover the genesis of each episode, explain the entire universe of the saga and decipher the very special gameplay of these games.
