A NAME, THEN THE WORK : HANA — FLOWER
In 2021, a MIAGE Sophia Antipolis company-creation assignment asked Mike and Sébastien to plan a business on paper: marketing, costs, legal form, and a game concept. The early blockchain/NFT idea stayed a student proposal. Mike chose Hana—the Japanese word for “flower”—and they kept the name for the studio they later began building beside their studies.
A SMALL STUDIO, A WIDE CRAFT : TWO FOUNDERS, MANY HAND-OFFS
Sébastien worked across development, UI/UX, and infrastructure; Mike led game direction and backend architecture. The studio worked almost entirely remotely: the founders were in Sophia Antipolis, while most contributors were students in Marseille who joined through recommendations from Téo, a friend from Sophia Antipolis. The story is not one of two people doing everything, but of work being shared, revised, and made usable by the next person.
Workboard photographed in the Hana Games workspace, September 2022.