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THIERRY CHAPEAU
Author and Artist
At the beginning of the 90s, the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg
offers its students a new course: the Games Workshop. Thierry
Chapeau,
originally from Paris, chose to follow the course even though
it was
fairly
far removed from his main training, graphic illustration.
Without any
previous
experience in this field, but logical through and
through (he comes from
a scientific background), Thierry tried to create
a simple game from a
simple
element, and he became obsessed by the
idea of a continually changing
game
board.
How To Play - Quixo Game - Game Rules
He defined what he wanted to do - based on a known concept,
offer
unending
surprises and turnarounds in the situation through
movement. The fitting
together of cubes with broken edges was to
provide the key to his
project.
QUIXO was born, initialized under
the name CUBES. It is therefore the
fruit
of the final study year of a
24-year-old student.
It is thanks to him, for the first and only time to date, that a
Frenchman
has joined the small club of authors published by Gigamic
(an
international
club if ever there was - Swiss, British, Belgian,
German, American and
Italian,
but none of them have a compatriot so
far). Ever since QUIXO,
Thierry Chapeau has been playing about with
other games ideas, always
based on the search for that extra something
which will make it
original.
But his real job is artistic creation in the
marvelous world of
children's stories.
He's up to his third book!
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