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Xavier Detant

Software Crafter, CTO

Xavier is Co-organiser of the Software Craftsmanship Community of Paris and the SoCraTes France Unconference, knowledge sharing being at the heart of his mindset. As he found himself in love with functional programming and beautiful code, he enjoys doing and explaining code, which made him a passionate crafter.
As a craftsman, agile coach, and developer, Xavier helps the improvement of systems (of people and computers) as a whole. This helps them to be more reactive to change and make products of higher quality.

Not-so-serious games for serious work

Apr 22, 2020
Serious games are a great way to make people live concepts and thus make them more tangible. However, they are often not so fun, probably because they are built from the concept towards the game.
A lot of fun games exist. Board games, video games, competitive games, cooperative games… Let’s get the best of both worlds by playing fun games and learn important concepts from it.
In this talk, I’ll show you some commercially available games I enjoy with the take away you can learn (and teach) thanks to them.