Hugo Labrande

Hugo Labrande's nickname on the French IF forum is Mule hollandaise. He also uses the nickname dutchmule.

Author Credits

Note: most of these games are in French, except for Gossip, Life On Mars?, Go West and Tristam Island/L'île Tristam, which are available both in French and English, and Heading East, which is only available in English.

• Les espions ne meurent jamais (17-Apr-2007; Z-code).
• Lieux Communs (with JB, Samuel Verschelde, Eric Forgeot, and Jean-Luc Pontico; 15-Jun-2007; Glulx and Z-code). HP Lovecraft: The Commonplace Book Project 2007 entry.
• Ma princesse adorée (19-Aug-2007; Z-code 5). French Speed-IF 2007.
• Châtiment divin (as "Mule Hollandaise"; 26-Aug-2007; Z-code). French Speed-IF 2007.
• Divine bonace (as "Théoclès Philocratos"; 28-Dec-2007; Z-code). French Minicomp 2007: 2nd place.
• Brrr ! (as "Wakaboodah"; 28-Dec-2007; Z-code). French Minicomp 2007: 3rd place.
• Un jeu d'enfant (28-Dec-2008; Z-code 5). French Speed-IF 2008.
• Gossip (31-Aug-2009; Z-code 5; English). IntroComp 2009: First Runner-up.
  • Note: The French version of Gossip was released on 18-Sep-2009 with an update of the English version.
• Homeland Security (as "Terry S. Albright"; 24-Jan-2012; Z-code). French Minicomp 2011: 5th place.
• Life On Mars? (as "Brad Bradbury"; 10-Jan-2014; Z-code). French Minicomp 2012-2013: 1st place.
  • Note: The English version was released in IF Comp 2015, where it took 13th place.
• Heading East (as "Alex Davies"; 7-May-2015; Z-code). ShuffleComp: Disc 2 entrant.
• Tipelau (4-Jan-2016; Inform 6 with Vorple). French Comp 2016: 2nd place.
• Secrets de Pêcheurs ("Les Aventures d'Un Soir"; 8-Avr-2017; Z-Code).
• Le kébab hanté (1-Oct-2017; Inform 6 with Vorple).
• L'affaire Colossi (2018)
• Panoptique (with Nighten Dushi; 14-Jan-2019; Inform 6 with Vorple).
• Go West (8-Aug-2019; Inform 6 with Vorple).
• Light (2020)
• Tristam Island (20-Nov-2020; Inform 6 with PunyInform). Translated in French as L'île Tristam (20-Dec-2021; Inform 6 with PunyInform).

Porting Credits

• Même les pommes de terre ont des yeux ! (Jul-2007; Z-code; French). Inform port of Même les pommes de terre ont des yeux ! (Clotilde Marion, Jean-Louis Le Breton, Fabrice Gille, publisher: Froggy Software; 1985; Apple II; French).
• La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs (Jan-2008; Z-code; French). Inform port of La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs (Jean-Louis Le Breton and Chine Lanzmann, publisher: Froggy Software; 1985; Apple II; French).
• Ported Vorple to Inform 6.

Translation Credits

• translation of Ryan Veeder's Captain Verdeterre's Plunder in French ("Le butin du Capitaine Verdeterre", 28-Feb-2014; Z-code)
• translation of Andrew Plotkin's Shade in French ("Ombre"), with MonsieurBouc (21-Aug-2015; Z-code)

Review and Article Credits

• dutchmule's reviews - at IFDB.
• Hugo Labrande's articles on fiction-interactive.fr
• Game Design Lessons Learned Trying To Write A Cento in The Rosebush, 14-Aug-2024.

Organizational Credits

• Organizer or co-organizer of the French Comp from 2015 to 2019, then in 2022.
• Co-administrator / editor-in-chief of the website [fiction-interactive.fr].
• Board member of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
• Co-chair of Narrascope 2022.

Links

• Hugo Labrande's IF Webpage (in English or French)

Interviews

• Rencontre avec Hugo Labrande (in French) - 2018.
• Entretien avec Hugo Labrande sur son portage de Même les pommes de terre ont des yeux ! (in French) - May 31, 2019.