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Philippe Ulrich , French born in 1951, is the founder of the company of development of video games Cryo Interactive.

He is also producer of discs (he worked with Henri Salvador) and writer.

Biography

Years of training

The Years 1970: Philippe Ulrich (born on March 28th, 1951) traverses the world during 5 years (Tahiti, the United States…). He forms in particular part of the experimenters of LSD in Suisse. This initiatory course brings back it without a penny to France. It then creates a community of musicians in a farm landaise and leaves thanks to Philippe Constantin a first quickly censured album: the King of the Fuel oil . As an autodidact, it is initiated with the electronic music and the data-processing programming with the turning of the Années 1980. Pioneer in this sector, it do-it-yourselfing his first plays on ZX 80 of Cleaves Sinclair.

The first successes in the vidéosphère

See also: Cryo Interactive

It then creates in company of Emmanuel Viau the first company of edition of video games in France: Data-processing Era. During six years this company produces about thirty hits international such as Macadam Bumper , Crafton and Xunk , Teenage Queen , Bubble Ghost , Purple Saturn Day , Crash Garret , Kult … In 1987, it works out the scenario and the programming with Didier Bouchon of the Arch of the Captain Blood for whom they receive, in London, the award better play of the year decreed by all the profession. The play is classified better sale in the USA.

After the creation of the label Exxos sponsored by Jodorowsky, it joined Virgin Games the USA for which it produces with Remi Herbulot Dune , a video game become worship.

It creates then in company of Jean-Martial Lefranc and Remi Herbulot the company Cryo Interactive Entertainement, which, with titles headlights like Megarace , Lost Eden , Raven , Alien , Versailles (video game) , Egypt 1156 before JC and well of others, positions as leader in the development of interactive universes of leisures. With orée the XXI century, it continues to invest the avant-garde multimedia by creating with Canal Plus the Second World (1997), precursor of the virtual universes of today.

It is at that time made knight of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters (Friday March 19th 1999)

End of Cryo

Philippe Ulrich locates the beginning of the decline of Cryo at his stockmarket entry. The bursting of the Bubble Internet, the catch in hand of the shareholders, make of Cryo a company without author at his head. He is opposed in particular to plays like Atlantis, which he does not support.

All that has like consequence the bankruptcy of Cryo in 2002.

A career in the music

After the Cryo adventure, Philippe Ulrich devotes himself in priority to his passion first, the music. Thus, in 2000, under the label of music Exxos, it organizes the return of Henri Salvador by producing Chambre with sight , an album sold with more than 1,5 million specimens. The musical productions follow one another with in particular the albums of Dédé, Sebastien Martel, Valerie Lagrange, Out, Alain Chamfort, Régis Ceccarelli, Elaad, or Carla Bruni.

The year 2004 is remembered by the realization and the composition of the soundtrack of 26 episodes of the series Gift, drawing animated which it created with Régis Loisel, diffused the following year on France 2.

In 2007, it creates a new audio format with its associates Gilles Babinet and Sylvain Huet: MXP4.

Writing

In addition to the writing of various cinematographic projects, Philippe Ulrich publishes in 2007 its first book, a delicious carnage , with the Gutenberg editions.

In this work he camps a hero of a new kind: Albert the Nutcase or the first killer - dandy - man-eater of the century which comes. The work, like a DVD, proposes no-claims bonus with the reader. It is a first in the edition. First also, Gandi, young artist produced by Philippe Ulrich, composed for the book a “original soundtrack” distributed by Naïve. An Internet site especially dedicated to the community “albertienne”, accompanies the exit by the book.

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