Hi 🔥! I’m Gaël, nice to meet you! I create video games and I teach game & narrative design !#VIDEO GAMES | I am currently game designer and game director for the Belgian studio Polygon Valley. Our first game is expected in 2026.#TEACHING | I teach various subjects related to video games and storytelling at the HEAJ - Haute École Albert Jacquard (Namur, Belgium). My goal is to share and make accessible knowledge and methods for analyzing and designing video games and interactive media. I also coordinate the master's degree in video games at the HEAJ, for which I am the program & research manager. I am also a visiting professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, where I teach general semiotics.#RESEARCH | After a PhD in video game literacy, I now devote my research to game design and ludonarrative assembly. I also supervise research and R&D in video games and interactive media at the HEAJ.