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Jean-Baptiste Pollien | http://www.chezjibe.com | Comics, illustrations & graphic design | No AI | 📩 jbpollien@gmail.com
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L’équipe vit bien.
Ma poêlée cèpe, oignons, lardons végétal. J’attends un peu avant de rajouter de l’ail. Les patates cuisent à part. Ça va vous sinon ?
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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J’ai craqué mon PEL pour lui et je ne regrette rien (j’ai pas de banane pour l’échelle).
Un gros gros cèpe.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Strip de la BD Super Basse Def qui moque les NPC de point and click qui refusent toujours les actions du joueur avec la même phrase « je ne crois pas que ce soit une bonne idée »
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Je pense surtout au gars sur Insta qui parodie les chanteurs ringards des 80’s en basant ses paroles sur des commentaires bancals de vidéos (ça pop quotidiennement dans mon feed). Je sais pas si la prod c’est de l’IA, mais j’ai un gros doute. Grosse « I know it but I can’t prove it » énergie.
Meme issu de la série TV Dexter où on voit un collègue de Dexter assis au volant de sa voiture avec un air très méfiant car il suspecte Dexter d’être un serial killer sans arriver à le prouver. Le truc c’est qu’il a totalement raison.
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I got one with Alex Kidd in Miracle World’s first boss. It took me years to understand its face was a closed fist and not some weird bird with a striped beak. I still struggle to see the fist to this day.
Alex Kidd in Miracle World’s first boss.
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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L’affiche du film « la fête est finie »
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Trop cool d’avoir pu voir @coldstorage.bsky.social sur scène aujourd’hui à Lyon ! Et un peu triste de pas avoir pris le temps de lui parler.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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🤨
Photo du poste de manœuvre du métro C à Lyon La légende sous la photo qui dit « poste de manœuvres locales à Hénon (2024) » Zoom sur la photo du poste de manœuvre où on voit un bouton avec inscrit « destruction d’urgence ». Gros zoom sur le bouton de destruction d’urgence.
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Pour l’Amour du jeu vidéo.
Vue de la scène du colloque du Conservatoire National du Jeu Vidéo au Forum des Images.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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C'est demain !
J-1 avant le colloque ! Table ronde #2 : Caricatures, dessins de presse, bande dessinées : croquer et illustrer le jeu vidéo par le crayon
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I also have a similar interview with Cameron Sheppard who programmed Mortal Kombat II on Game Boy. If you want me to share it too, let me know! 3/3
19. Thank you for adding Goro as a secret character. It’s the only version of the original Mortal Kombat that allow to play as him so far and it was so much fun! I wonder how that happened: was it your idea? How did you come up with it? It was my idea, Goro was quite limited, but he was powerful. Since all the characters were stored in a certain format, it was easy to make Goro controllable. I was just Easter egg in the game. It took an age for people to find it though, I believe that the text in the ROM gave it away ‘the Goro lives in you’ line 20. Talking about Goro, there is this special move (Down + A + B) that makes him disappear completely, making the game running much faster in the process. I always found this move peculiar: was it an oversight or was it intentional? Its was a defence move if I remember correctly, it was written in the last few days of development, it could be buggy too 22. Given that Goro was made playable, why not Shang Tsung, the final boss? You have limited memory and time, which character is cooler Shang Tsung or Goro? Goro wins! 23. About secret characters using already available assets, did you consider including Reptile, the third green ninja who is a mix between Scorpion and Subzero? Was it a memory issue? Reptile wasnt really in mk1, and he was green, the gb has 3 colours, yellow is high contrast, blue is dark, theres no in between on the gb. Also reptile was essentially a free character that cost no memory on the arcade, the programmer just changed the palette for that character, this wasn't possible on gb 24. As a franchise, Mortal Kombat is now well known for its many secrets and Easter eggs. Is there something you hid in the game that is still yet to be discovered? Nope, just bugs. Although my wife is credited in the game. 25. As a gamer, what is your top 5 best games of all time? What's your story as a gamer? I’m not a gamer, but my favourites are games by Rockstar, RDR 1/2, GTA 4/5/6 (but 6 isn’t released yet, (or is it)) 26. What is the game you programmed or managed you're the proudest of? I’m proud of all of them, but was extra fond of I’m proud of all of them, but was extra fond of SimCity for Amstrad and Spectrum (there was a GB version that was never complete, the licensing fell though) 27. What are your current plans and project? Do you still work in the gaming industry? What is Antony Hartley doing nowadays? I moved to Sweden in 1994, but I did do one more game Asteroids Gameboy for Atari/Activision/Syrox in 1999. In 2000 I was an owner partner at Digital Illusion CE AB, since they bought my company Synergenix. Since then I’ve been a Tech Entrepreneur and have started several successful companies, and I still do that. My last few projects have been AI related, and I’m currently working on a product that does brand identity / brand books and Brand DNA. 28. Final question: If you had to develop MK GB again, what would you change? What would you not change? Are you asked a lot about MK nowadays? What would you say to all MK fans out there? A lot of effort went into making the game as fast/optimized as possible, but I wish I could have been quicker, of course while keeping the big sprites. I guess if it were ported to the GBC it would be twice as fast.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I haven’t bought the Kollection yet, so I don’t know if there is extra content or behind the scene content about the Game Boy games, but I think it would be cool to share this with everyone. This was done for an upcoming book I’m writing about fighting games on Game Boy called Pocket Fighter. 2/3
11. You have developed the very first modern fighting game on Game Boy, a system that would receive a surprisingly high amount of fighting games during its long life span. Have you played any other game of this kind on Game Boy later on (MKII and 3, Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters, etc)? If so, what did you think of it? Not really, I’m not really a game player, I kind to had enough of that. I did write an engine for the GB version of MK II, which I was paid to write, but I don’t think Cameron used it. That was in September 1993. 12. The Game Boy version of Mortal Kombat had 6 playable characters instead of the original 7 in the arcade version: How was made the decision of cutting out Johnny Cage? We just didn’t have enough memory for poor Johnny. 13. Do you remember why it was Johnny Cage that was cut from the game and not an other character? I remember it was Kano who was axed from the Game Gear version so I guess there wasn’t any specific instruction about it? I think cage had more animations, but it wasn't really my call, i made recommendations. 14. I remember seeing previews in magazine that showed early versions of the game, specifically with mostly empty backgrounds and some weird floor tiles (https://www.mksecrets.net/images/mk1/mk1-development09.jpg). There were faces on those graphics, and I’m curious if those graphics came from another game? What is the story behind those faces? Yes, those block ls were place holder graphics, some of them were from Rygar. The faces were pull out of some other graphics in the arcade machine. That was a very early screen shot, probable half way through development. 15. Special move’s inputs were very peculiar, as the player is supposed to input them pretty slowly for them to come out: What was the technical side of it? The game is slower because of the size of the character graphics. About a quarter of every frame is redrawn for every frame, I think it was about 10 FPS. 16. Some of the special move’s inputs were changed from the original version, such as Sub Zero’s ice ball. What was the reason behind this? That was acclaims call, the controller configuration was different, also people felt that it would be good if play had to learn new secrets. That was acclaims call, the controller configuration was different, also people felt that it would be good if play had to learn new secrets. 17. About the finishing moves: They were heavily censured and watered-down on Nintendo systems, because of the firm’s strict policy. Was it you who came up with these new altered versions or were you given specific instructions about it? Just memory limitations. We really didn’t have space in the game for more frames. I don’t really remember altered versions. 18. The Game Gear version of Mortal Kombat was programmed by another team. Did you know this other development team, and did you share your knowledge between each other? It was all done simultaneously, I could only do one at a time, otherwise I would have done the Game Gear version too. Yes, I talked to Keith (the team) about it, yes Keith and Cameron are all old friends. Back in those days, the programmer was the team, the artist would do all their stuff in just a month or so, the music was normally done by a someone in the last few months, we work in separate places most of the time.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Since Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is out, I shall share an interview I did last year with Antony Hartley, programmer of the infamous and often overlooked Game Boy version of the very first Mortal Kombat (wink @digitaleclipse.bsky.social @noobde.bsky.social @kohler.bsky.social) 1/3
1. Hello Mr Hartley! Can you introduce yourself? I’m a self-taught (an autodidact) who began programming in assembly language when I was just 11 years old. By the time he turned 14, I had my first games published, at the age of 16, I was already a full-time software engineer. I wrote 26 released game SKU’s in a 12 year period. 2. How have you started your career as a game developer? My Grandad was an electronic designer at Decca Navigator, he designed Concordes navigation computer, and he built me my first computer, so I learned to program 6502 code using hex with just 256 bytes of ram. I phone up some local software companies and told them what I had written, they asked me if I could write games for them, so I did. 3. How did you happened to work on Mortal Kombat? What was your role in this development team? I was an independent subcontractor, I had done a lot of work with Probe Software, I was paid about 2000 pounds a week and I had a small royalty in my contract (25p per unit). I was the team mostly, there was a producer “Gary Liddon” who helped me schedule stuff, he also wrote a C program that extracted the original graphics from the arcade machine source code, we all got the full source machine source code, we all got the full source code from Ed Boon at Williams, we had all the assets from the arcade machine, including all the original digital camera images of the martial artist/dancers. I wrote a piece of software that took the original images and converted them, this was an editor / converter that automatically converted all the graphics, it also processed and compressed everything into a number of ROM bank images. Allister Brimble (allisterbrimble.com) did the music using a music engine that was started by Jerone Tel and updated and finished by me. Eric Bailey did some character backgrounds for gameplay and menus like attract mode/start screen/plater select screens/etc, he tidied up and optimized the originals. (Eric was a super cool guy) 4. Did you know about the Mortal Kombat franchise before working on it? It was just released in the arcade, we pretty much got the cabinet when it was released. it was controversial, but only a month old. 5. Did you had any specific instructions for developing this game? Not really, although I would chat with Gary about stuff, although Ed and John had final approval of the finished game. 6. Have you developed a Game Boy game prior to Mortal Kombat? No, it was my first GB game, BTW, I built my own development system for the GB, because I didn’t want to spend 5000 pounds on the Nintendo system. I had worked on Sega Master System and Game gear though. 7. Because of its limitations, did you have any concern about developing a fighting game on Game Boy? Was there any challenge? Many, The game was completely rewritten in GB80, which has no relation to the TMS32010 processor of the original, Ed’s version was massive, my version was ~64x smaller. I wanted to keep the players large, so I used some tricks to do that, the game ended up a little slower, but I felt that it looked better and still played well. I don’t like fighting games with tiny characters, it looks silly. I had to rewrite the whole thing to make it fit. The AI was pretty difficult to do, it was a redesign, but I used some of Ed’s ideas. 8. How much time did you spend on developing the GB version, from beginning to end? Started about November 1992 and was finished in mid-June 1993. 9. The graphics are one of the highlights of Mortal Kombat on Game Boy, especially the big detailed characters sprites. How did you managed to achieve that? It wasn’t possible, the Gameboy doesn’t have big sprites, but I broke the laws of physics. No, I used GB hardware sprites at the edges of the characters and background characters in the middle of the sprites, I cheated, but it costs some processor power to redraw backgrounds. 10. Did the members of the original team (Tobias, Boon, Vogel, Forden) had a look at the game, did approved things or were involved in any way ? What was their feedback? I never heard of Vogel & Forden, perhaps they did sound and other stuff. Ed & John had approval, they said can you make it faster, so I explained, you can have tiny characters or it can run a little slower. They wanted big! 11. You have developed the very first modern fighting game on Game Boy, a system that would receive a surprisingly high amount of fighting games during its long life span. Have you played any other game of this kind on Game Boy later on (MKII and 3, Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, King of
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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PARIS ! Je serai ce samedi au 7e colloque du Conservatoire National du Jeu Vidéo pour une table ronde sur le rapport entre dessin, BD et jeux vidéo. C'est à 14h45 au Forum des Images. On parlera un peu de Basse Def avec peut-être des annonces (en fait je viens surtout pour streetpasser).
MÉMOIRE DU JEU VIDÉO COLLOQUE #7 SAMEDI 8 NOVEMBRE 2025 De 9h à 19 h Forum des images - Salle 500 2 rue du cinéma 75001 Paris « DESSINE-MOI UN JEU VIDEO » Saison #2 - Quand les pixels sortent de l'écran Septième colloque national organisé par le Conservatoire National du Jeu Vidéo Programme et inscriptions : www.cnjv.fr/colloque
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Kaizen au rabais
Photo du jeu vidéo « Wii Fit U » ou l’on voit mon avatar arriver au sommet du mont Everest. Photo du jeu vidéo « Wii Fit U » où l’on voit un message de félicitations pour avoir atteint le sommet du mont Everest
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Joyeux Halloween !
Screenshot du jeu vidéo "Basse Def Adventures" (NES) au moment de se battre contre le boss du niveau de la maison hantée.
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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On voit Mario se diriger vers une sortie secrète pendant que je dis "Ha bah oui tiens !" Toujours les yeux rivés sur ma console, je dis "C'est vrai, je m'en souviens maintenant ! C'est la sortie pour un niveau caché ! Hé merci mon..." Je regarde par dessus mon épaule, le garçon a disparu. Je retourne à mon jeu en pensant "Merci mon moi de 11 ans."
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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[BLOG Rediffusion] Partner www.chezjibe.com/comic/partner/ 1/2
Une représentation de Mario qui saute, inspiré du jeu Super Mario Land 2 sur Game Boy Je suis sur le canapé avec ma compagne qui me demande "Tu joues à quoi ?". Je réponds "Super Mario Land 2, ils ont ressorti quelques vieux jeux Game Boy que j'aime bien." Ce à quoi elle réplique "C'est toi le vieux." Je dis "Attends... Ca me rappelle quelque chose ici..." Un jeune garçon surgit par dessus mon épaule et pointe l'écran en disant "Là ! Il y a un secret ! Il faut que tu récupères la fleur de feu et que tu détruises ces blocs, en haut !"
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Troisième jeu de la trilogie Jaleco récemment éditée par @brokestudio.bsky.social, Soldam est un puzzle game malin inédit sur NES. Bravo à toute l’équipe ainsi qu’à Florent Gorges pour avoir pris l’initiative de sortir ces jeux en physique. J’ai adoré faire les packaging pour ces jeux !
Boîte du jeu Soldam. Arrière de la boîte du jeu Soldam Les boites des trois jeux suivants : Pizza Pop, Fortified Zone 2 et Soldam.
October 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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[BLOG] Cordialement www.chezjibe.com/comic/cordia... Gros gros mood automnal ici.
Je suis assis devant mon ordi et j'envoie un mail qui dit "cher éditeur,voici quelques chapitres à relire ainsi que la couverture à valider ! gros poutous, cordialement." Je reçois la réponse suivante "réponse automatique : actuellement en congés, je serai de retour un jour." J'envoie un autre mail qui dit : "wesh mathieu mon scénariste adoré, t’as pu voir la couv’ ? t’en dis quoi ?" Vue de mon immeuble, de nuit, toutes les fenêtres sont éteintes sauf la mienne, il pleut. Je reçois la réponse : "ouais trop bien, je valide ! bises depuis la Crète !"
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Le bon coing
Carton posé sur le pas d’une porte avec l’écriteau « Coings, servez-vous », et un gros coing un peu pourri.
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Les animaux ont un message.
Panneau informatif près de l’enclos des biches du Parc de la Tête d’Or à Lyon, où le message initial « merci de ne pas nourrir les animaux » a été détourné en « merci de ne pas se nourrir des animaux ».
October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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À temps pour l’EVO France (j’y suis pas bouhouhouhou).
Je suis passé au rang Platinum sur le online du jeu Street Fighter 6, ce qui est bien mais pas top.
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"Le groupe vit bien."
Un post sur Reddit qui montre la photo d'une sorte d'arche blanche installée dans une rue parisienne avec marqué le mot "justice" dessus, accompagné de la question du redditeur : "Je sais qu'on est dans une impasse politique mais la guillotine c'est un peu exagéré non ?" Une suite de réponses "non" à la question posée. Encore une suite de réponses "non" à la question posée.
October 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Autocollant installé sur une vitre, où il est inscrit « directed by David Lynch ». Derrière la vitre, la vue d’une rue arborée banale.
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM