Our main activity is a training course: learning to imagine, draw and build a video game, with artificial intelligence as a tool. You learn by doing, with your hands and with other people. And what you have learned is written down on an honest piece of paper, signed by someone who saw you do it. It takes place in two neighbourhoods: Burel, in Marseille, and Carami, in Brignoles.
Why an association, what the training course does, what the roof and the welcome desk are for, and what it changes in the Belle de Mai and at Carami. In French.
This is the big building site, the one that lasts. You learn to draw the game on paper, then build it piece by piece, with artificial intelligence as the tool: the person decides. Each workshop prepares one block of skills from two French vocational titles issued by the Ministry of Labour (Web and mobile web developer, RNCP37674; UI designer, RNCP42140). A block validated by the certifier's jury is acquired for life and goes on the CV. Signed witness statements become the evidence; validation goes first through block-by-block VAE, then a partner centre, then the association's own accreditation. Details (in French) →
A place to ask a question about the law, a notary or safety, and above all about housing: a late rent, a service-charge statement, a letter from the landlord or from a bailiff. We replace neither lawyer nor notary: we help people understand, prepare their papers, show their good faith and knock on the right door. The place also carries a tenants' association, preparing for the tenant-representative elections at the social landlord. Details (in French) →
Rooms where everyone takes part in the life of the house as they can. For artists who stay a long time, young workers on assignment, people accompanying a relative in hospital; and for those who, in everyday life, cannot be themselves. Here, everyone arrives as they are and is respected: a community of respect across all backgrounds, where exchanges are free. The house rules are written down, and a named guarantor answers for them. The house rules (in French) →
Nobody watches someone else build the game: everyone rolls up their sleeves, in a small group. You learn the way you learn to ride a bike: not from a book, but by pedalling.
A video game professional, a trainer or the head of an association watches what you do. Then they write it down in black and white: "I saw this person do this, on this day." And they sign. It is not a school mark, it is a witness.
With these signed papers in hand, you can knock on a door: a job, a training course, and later a diploma. You arrive with proof, not only with words.
A character sheet produced with AI as a tool: three children, two lands, a rally; turnarounds, palette, fabrics, equipment, places. It is not an illustration, it is a piece of evidence: it is dated, it has an author, and someone who watched it being made can write down what they saw and sign. The witness statement starts from this piece, and the witness statement is what goes to the jury.
Character sheet “Les enfants de l'héritage croisé”, workshop example, produced with AI as a tool.The signed papers add up and become a file. Very often, this file makes it possible to go back to school: take a certification, have what you already know how to do recognised (in France this is called VAE, validation of experience), enter a course you would never have dared to apply for. It is not only for the young: you can start again at any age.
Nobody is asked to choose a trade on paper. The first workshops take the form of a game: you try, and you see very quickly whether you like it. Once that is clear, the association helps you choose what comes next, step by step: which trade, which course, which door. This is what we call our guidance engineering: real guide work, prepared in advance, so that everyone finds their way.
Digital tools and artificial intelligence change very fast, and new ones keep appearing. Knowing how to use them, today, is what lets you find your place, at work and in everyday life. That is why the training is done with these tools, not beside them.
This is the workshop that lasts over time, where the whole training course takes place. You come back, you practise, you make progress, and the signed papers pile up, like the pages of a notebook you are filling in. It is made to live with the neighbourhood, not beside it.
This is the first trial, on a small scale, like tasting the soup before serving everyone. A small group, results you can count, to check that the method really works before going further.
