{"id":15382,"date":"2023-03-08T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quebec.ubisoft.com\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2023-03-09T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:31:27","slug":"juliette-pelletier-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quebec.ubisoft.com\/en\/juliette-pelletier-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Together, We Are Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec: Juliette, Gameplay Programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the media, on the Web, in our studios; we often talk about the \u201cnew generation\u201d. But who is it, exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This new generation is made up of young, dynamic and talented creators like Juliette Pelletier, a gameplay programmer at Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

Freshly graduated in software engineering, she was hired in May 2022, after a successful internship at the studio a year earlier. And while programming wasn\u2019t on Juliette\u2019s radar at first, a love of math and video games, coupled with a need to create, eventually led her towards the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I wanted to be a physicist and\/or mathematician, but when I got to CEGEP, I realized that I didn\u2019t have the discipline to do a PhD and stay in school for 10 years,\u201d Juliette recounts with a smile.<\/p>\n

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Despite a slight fear of \u201cbreaking the magic\u201d of her favorite games by discovering the world behind the scenes, she enrolled in the software engineering program at Universit\u00e9 Laval\u2026 and immediately fell in love with the profession.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never programmed before and I completely fell in love with it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

After her first internship at Revenu Qu\u00e9bec, there was no doubt in her mind: the next one had to be at Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

A few months earlier, Juliette had already worked with our studio on a project for one of her courses – a chatbot, to be exact – so an official reunion as part of an internship made sense.<\/p>\n

Despite the pandemic and an almost exclusively remote adventure, the young programmer fell under the studio\u2019s spell: a warm atmosphere, a team that is not afraid to do things differently and, above all, a lot of collaboration.<\/p>\n

A positive experience that continued a year later when she joined<\/a> the Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec team for good.<\/p>\n

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Debunking Myths<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The image of the programmer alone in front of their computer, glued to the screen, may be a persistent clich\u00e9 in popular culture, but it couldn\u2019t be less true.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my math classes, it was my brain, my problem, and I figured it out by myself. Now it\u2019s like 20 people on a case! It\u2019s crazy how much you can combine brains and create one giant one,\u201d Juliette points out with a laugh.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a stereotype that we all have hoods on our heads and work in the dark alone\u2026but it\u2019s really the opposite!\u201d<\/p>\n

This constant collaboration is even more true in the case of Juliette and her position as a gameplay programmer.<\/p>\n

In a few words, the Baie-Saint-Paul native compares her role at Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec to that of a cook in a restaurant who prepares ingredients for the other members of the brigade, who then assemble the different dishes on the menu so that they can be served to customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re giving tools to the designers and level designers. We don\u2019t necessarily make the game, we make components, which are then used to build the different levels and mechanics of the game,\u201d explains Juliette.<\/p>\n

By her own admission, it\u2019s a shadowy job, especially when compared to an artist or animator, for example. That said, it is no less satisfying a role for Juliette. In fact, it\u2019s quite the opposite, because the elements her team designs end up being used throughout the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s cool to see that it\u2019s because of us that something works, but also to see how all the elements complement each other and form a whole,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

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To Program Is to Create<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Juliette isn\u2019t at the studio shaping the foundations of Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s next adventures, she\u2019s writing stories, playing guitar, and is passionate about movies, video games and video editing.<\/p>\n

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In short, she creates! And, more often than not, she creates for herself. It is about expressing her creativity, quite simply.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poems I wrote when I was 17, I burned them afterwards,\u201d she confides with a laugh.<\/p>\n

This love of creation is something she brings to the studio every day, in every project she undertakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the intersection of math and creativity, because that\u2019s what programming is all about. Somewhere between the myth of the left brain and the right brain, I think it meets,\u201d she illustrates.<\/p>\n

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From One New Generation to Another<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As we mentioned at the outset, Juliette is part of a promising new generation of young talent that has been joining our studio for the past few years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a more diverse and inclusive generation of creators. However, Juliette is lucid: there is still a lot to do in this area. She has seen this in her software engineering cohort, where her female colleagues were rather rare, \u201ceven though there are more and more of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why she\u2019s glad to see associations like G\u00e9nie uELLES<\/a>, a group of female students at Universit\u00e9 Laval who want to \u201cdemocratize women in engineering,\u201d emerging. And it\u2019s also why Juliette is involved, notably with Ubisoft \u00c9ducation<\/a>, to introduce her profession to high school students in order to encourage them to embark on the adventure.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we need to reach out not only to young people, but really to all young people, girls and boys, and introduce them to programming. I had never heard of it earlier in my life,\u201d she says, adding that it is also essential to democratize programming in the broadest sense.<\/p>\n

Not only with projects that allow kids to learn the first notions as early as possible, but also to discover that programming, in the end, is not rocket science!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be afraid of the jargon. When you\u2019ve never programmed before, the learning curve can seem terrifying, but even if it\u2019s hard at first, you have to keep going. It\u2019s so much fun, you have to try it! Once you know how to program, you realize how much you can really do with it,\u201d she emphasizes.<\/p>\n

These words speak volumes about Juliette\u2019s enthusiasm and prove that it\u2019s never too early to inspire the next generation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Quick Facts!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Your go-to comfort food?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom\u2019s spaghetti.\u201d<\/p>\n

The underrated TV series that everyone needs to discover?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fleabag<\/em><\/p>\n

The first CD you bought?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEither Crazy Frog or Marie-Mai.\u201d<\/p>\n

A person, anyone, you\u2019d like to chat with over a drink?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil Druckmann, creative director of The Last of Us<\/em><\/p>\n

The first app you open in the morning?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter or TikTok<\/p>\n

If you were not a gameplay programmer, you would be…?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019d like to be a truck driver, because I love driving!\u201d<\/p>\n

Console or PC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Console<\/p>\n

What do you put in your coffee?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMilk!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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