Last Friday evening in Paris we had the ceremony of the Milthons – which is positioned as the equivalent of the Césars (the french Oscars) for video games. Mekensleep’s latest title, Soul Bubbles, was competing in the best portable console game category. Here’s a shaky cam taken by a friend:

Even if you can’t understand french, what happened is pretty clear: we won! :)
But to be perfectly honest we knew we had a fairly good chance of winning the portable console award and although we were extremely happy we were not exactly taken by surprise.

The *real* surprise came about an hour later when the grand prize was awarded… to us!
Now this was totally unexpected because some huge multi-million dollar games were competing for best game of the year and a couple of extremely good ones too. For the whole duration of the ceremony I was completely convinced that the grand prize would go to Trackmania United Forever and kept telling so to Florent (of Nadeo) who was sitting right in front of me. It hadn’t even crossed my mind that we were seriously eligible until the very last minute, when the president of the jury David Cage (of Quantic Dream) started explaining that they had wanted to reward originality and risk taking – and went on to proclaim Soul Bubbles the winner!

Unfortunately, I don’t have a video of that segment because my friend had run out of batteries by then. But believe me: it was one of those moments really worth living. After three years of efforts and so much unknowns, after all the doubts and the pains of production, one would need to be really jaded not to appreciate the recognition. Well, I am not jaded, I am really, really happy. I only wish the rest of the team could have been there with us: