Vincent Dedienne was born in 1987… and he is still alive!
He has many passions in life: theatre, cinema, waffles and games. He has played many board games ever since he was a little boy. He is quite good at Dix de chute and absolutely unbeatable at Hippo Gloutons: he even set up a home-made gaming library in his Palm Beach villa.
All this to say that he knows his way around games, whether they are dedicated to children or an expert audience.
Vincent Dedienne plays on stage or in front of a camera and from now on he will also play with the other members of the “As d’Or” jury!

A geographer for forty years, a writer of playful and suspenseful novels for twenty years, I am also though less well-known a passionate board game enthusiast. A fan of MB games since childhood (my initials!), I designed my first game at twelve years old, well before writing my first novel: "Bussimon," an endless strategy game with obscure rules, of which I still have the prototype.

I play everywhere and often with family, at parties, in restaurants, and even for nearly forty years with friends in a modestly named championship: Ligue 1.

I contributed to the design of two games: Brutus (Frédéric Bizet and Michel Bussi, Bad Taste Games, 2017) and Le Grand Quiz Littéraire (Michel Bussi and Frédérique Bizet, Marabout, 2019). An immersive investigation game was inspired by my novel Nymphéas Noirs (Nymphéas Noirs - L'Enquête, Miraludo, 2025).

If I had to name a few favorites among the hundreds in my game collection, I would mention Azul, Wizard, Splendor, Ra, Futés, Dominion...

As a player and writer, I concluded my book L'Art du Suspense with these words: "Writing is playing. Let us never forget that there is nothing more important than play. The experience of play, grounded both in make-believe (we know we are playing) and in the reader's-player involvement (I do not simply read a fiction; I act on how I read it, and thus on how I receive it), allows us to go much further in emotion, education, and awareness than settling for a self-centered, serious, and predictable narrative."

To finish, they say I'm a bad loser which practically never happens.