Raynal and other former Adeline members have repeatedly told fans that creating the third installment is made difficult by having to license or reacquire the rights to the franchise, which currently belong to Delphine Software International.

Shifting to software programming and working at his father's computer shop, Raynal's first commercial game, Robix 500 (1983), sold around 80 copies.

[6][7] More importantly to Raynal himself, he became romantically involved with the game's graphic artist, Yaël Barroz, who gave birth to his first child shortly before Alone in the Dark was released.

During this time No Cliché also produced a spin-off entitled Toy Commander: Christmas Surprise (2000) as a free bonus with issue #10 of OD Magazine.

For a time Raynal was also working on a survival horror game Agartha, which was cancelled due to Sega's decision to stop development on the Dreamcast.

[10] Later, Raynal was involved as a consultant in the design of Soul Bubbles, a game for the Nintendo DS, published by Eidos Interactive.

[citation needed] Several years later, in September 2021, Raynal joined a newly formed studio named [2.21] [14] for the production of a new installment to the Little Big Adventure franchise.

Raynal listed Age of Empires, Alien 8 on the ZX Spectrum, Alone in the Dark, Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, Little Big Adventure 2, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum, Marble Madness's arcade version, and Nibbler's arcade version as his favorite games in 2000.