Guillaume

It is a race from which past court convictions have already excluded three other prominent opposition figures - former President Laurent Gbagbo, former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro and a former minister, Charles Blé Goudé - all central actors in the political crises and civil conflicts that brutally paralysed the progress of Ivory Coast between 1999 and 2011.

In 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Guillaume Broche was like millions of others around the world.

Guillaume eventually left Ubisoft and formed Sandfall Interactive to work on Clair Obscur full-time from its base in Montpellier, France.

Guillaume attributes some of this to recent advances in tools used to make games, which allowed the team to work more efficiently.

But the conventional wisdom when Guillaume began was that players didn't want something like that.