(Broacasting our studies)
In this new episode, Dr. Ludus explores the concept of the "video toy", as described by researcher Stéphane Natkin in 2003 in his book "Video Games and Media in the 21st Century". https://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique... How does the concept of "video toy" differ from that of "video game"? That's what Machine and Dr. Ludus explain in this new episode. Find out more about video toys: http://ja.games.free.fr/Introduction_... (pp.19-21). Cre
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Keywords : Toy, Video toy
Abstract— While the serious game concept has considerably evolved in the last two decades, it still needs to be clearly differentiated from other types of artifacts. Thus, there is a degree of confusion about the relationship between serious games and other related applications such as simulators or the re-purposing of entertainment games within educational practices for most outside the domain. This article proposes a formal approach toward classifying Games, Toys, Serious Games, Serious
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Keywords : Formal definition, Health, Health Game, Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Re-purposing, Serious Toy, Simulator
In this new episode, Dr. Ludus explores the concept of the "video toy", as described by researcher Stéphane Natkin in 2003 in his book "Video Games and Media in the 21st Century".https://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique... How does the concept of "video toy" differ from that of "video game"?That's what Machine and Dr. Ludus explain in this new episode. Find out more about the concept of a video toy:http://ja.games.free.fr/Introduction_... (pp
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Keywords : Toy, Video toy
BLUE BOT PROJECT Serious digital games are attractive educational tools and resources which are undoubtedly relevant in appropriate contexts and situations (Alvarez et al., 2016). Faced with growing screen consumption by young children and its dangers on the development of several capacities, the exposure of kindergarten children is questionable (Tisseron, 2013). In order to benefit from the potential of serious digital games, without achieving overexposure to the screen, the use of toys su
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Keywords : Serious Game, Robot
(Broacasting our studies)
Si les serious games font l’objet de nombreuses expériences de terrain dans l’enseignement primaire et secondaire, ils restent suspects aux yeux d’une partie de la communauté éducative. Que penser de leur potentiel éducatif ? Qu’en dit la recherche ? Quels jeux choisir et comment les utiliser en classe pour favoriser l’apprentissage ? Cet ouvrage répond à ces questions de manière claire et synth&eacu
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Keywords : Serious game, Edugame, Ludopedagogy, Education, School, Serious Toy, Learning
This book focuses on a little known and hardly discussed period from the history of video games: the ends of the 70's, and more specifically the 1976-1980 years of the home consoles. The books explains how, after Ralph Baer's pioneer invention of the Magnavox Odyssey, and the success of Pong in arcades, home video games takes over TV sets around the world thanks to... General Instrument. Indeed, the introduction of a new integrated chip, copying Pong and sold for a few dollars only, allowed many
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Keywords : pong, globalization, economic history, home console, 70's, japan, france, usa
=====================Résumé de la présentation=====================Selon la BNF, depuis 2014, le Ministère de la Culture tient à ce que nous privilégions le vocable « jeu sérieux » à la place de « Serious Game ». Il convient cependant de souligner qu’une telle traduction introduit une subtilité. En effet, dans la langue française, la notion de « jeu »
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Keywords : Serious game
Cette présentation expose à un public génraliste un petit résumé de l'histoire des Serious Games. Programme de la journée : Cette nouvelle forme de communication et d’apprentissage, issue des jeux vidéo, se retrouve peu à peu dans tous les domaines de notre vie, de l’école au travail, en passant par notre santé ou notre citoyenneté. D’où viennent-ils, quels sont leurs usages, comment l
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Keywords : Serious Game, History
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w
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Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
The first part of a non-official biography of Shigeru Miyamoto, famous creator of Mario and Zelda. William Audureau, a keen expert of his works, invites us to a journey through his life, from his childhood to the release of the first Zelda episode in 1986. In the absence of a direct involvement from Miyamoto in the book, the author relies on more than 150 of his interviews published in press, alongside with a trip to Japan. Very easy and pleasant to read, this book manages to go beyond "ins
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Keywords : biography, shigeru miyamoto, nintendo, mario, zelda