Jehanne Rousseau is a

video game producer A video game producer is the top person in charge of overseeing development of a video game. History The earliest documented use of the term ''producer'' in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when he founded Electronic Arts ...

, co-founder and CEO of

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. She was lead writer for

GreedFall ''GreedFall'' is an action role-playing game developed by Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set in an early 18th century-styled fantasy setting and was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on Sep ...

Career

In 1999 Jehanne Rousseau began her career as a 2D graphic designer at RFX Interactive and worked on Tonic Trouble for

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. In 2005 she joined Monte Cristo and created the world of Silverfall until Monte Cristo stopped making RPGs. In 2008 she co-founded and directed the Spiders studio with former Monte Cristo developers. She is also a screenwriter and dialogue writer. GreedFall is Spiders's biggest game a completely new universe with a language, different people, and different factions created from scratch in less than three years. In 2020, she received the Pegasus Prize for Personality of the Year from the Academy of Video Game Arts and Techniques. She was awarded the Chevalier of the National Order of Merit medal.

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Women video game developers French women company founders Paris-Sorbonne University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{videogame-bio-stub