Star Wars Outlaws Key Art
Game Design on Star Wars Outlaws, an AAA Ubisoft Original, released on August 30, 2024.
- Feature owner and designer for 2 gameplay activities (Kessel Sabacc and Fathier Races), leading the implementation in the Snowdrop engine using visual scripting
- Collaborated with up to 50 people on Sabacc, in art, animation, narrative, sound and tech departments, providing feedbacks and guidance to achieve a cohesive experience
- Stage director on gameplay motion-capture sessions
- Developed 3 python scripts to improve the team workflow in the Snowdrop engine (sequencer, excel-to-data import/export, data sorter/renamer)
- Joined the tech team as a technical game designer for the production of the DLC quests
Star Wars Outlaws: Defeating Lando in Sabacc
A few press quotes about Kessel Sabacc:
If nothing else, I’ve had a wonderful time playing Sabacc. The new variant, Kessel Sabacc, invented for Star Wars Outlaws is infinitely moreish, a simple card game that takes elements of Blackjack and Poker and a few others, and blends them into an eminently snackable bit of video game gambling. In the simplest terms, four players are each dealt a hand of two cards and take turns, through three rounds, to attempt to make a pair of the two lowest numbers possible. Drawing a new card costs a token, as does coming anywhere but first at the end of each set of rounds. When you’re out of tokens you’re out of the game; last player standing wins. I could play it all day. Chris Tapsell for Eurogamer
You might get lost in Sabacc, an addictive, complicated card game that plays like a cross between poker, blackjack and Uno. Jason Schreier from Bloomberg
I’m particularly partial to Kessel Sabacc, a card game that’s kind of like blackjack, if blackjack also had Uno house rules designed to make everyone else hate you. It might be the best thing in the game. Joshua Rivera for Vulture
The last bit of roleplaying that rounds out the scoundrel experience is a card game called Kessel Sabacc. Like any open world game worth its salt (The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth), Outlaws’ take on a card-based minigame is quickly addictive. Unlike The Witcher 3’s Gwent, Sabacc delivers both the strategy of play with the scummy joy of gambling in a sleazy bar, complete with the ability to cheat. The rules are complicated to explain, but just know that this is a game where you can sit across a table with the likes of Lando Calrissian himself, nervously eyeballing your hand while your sidekick Nix peers at his cards over the shoulder. Christopher Cruz for RollingStone
I was also lucky to be a speaker at GDC 2025 for 2 talks about Sabacc, representing the work done by our team at Ubisoft Paris:
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