The present study aims to verify the emergence of the terms « game play » (in one word) and « gameplay » (in two words) within the framework of the Anglophone and Francophone video game cultural sphere. Starting from the writings of Wikipedia who sees the origin of these words associated with the mention « How the game plays ? » which would have appeared on the first coin-op arcade games, we are conducting an investigation of
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Keywords : gameplay, game play, video game, lexicometry, emergence, coin-op arcade Games, History of video game
Préhistoire du jeu vidéo Quel est le premier jeu vidéo ? Pour certains, il s'agit de PONG (1972). Pour d'autres, de Spacewar! (1962). Mais en vérité, il existe de nombreux jeux vidéo créés bien avant eux. Par exemple, le jeu du mouton et de la clôture, qui date de 1951. Ou encore le premier jeu informatique français, qui remonte à 1960. À travers ce livre illustré d
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Keywords : history, prehistory, video games
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013.This course revolves around a Serious Game about the history of video games, that you can play below. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides) -= Vintage Game Shop : Student Edition =- (Flash file) Click here to download the "offline" version of the game (Windows EXE, 9mo)
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Keywords : history, video games, vintage game shop
The ludoscience team is pleased to announce the release of a new game created in our laboratory: Vintage Game Shop. It's a “documentary game” about the history of video games. The game is freeware, available for Web browser and Mobile (Android and iOS). Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit wil
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Keywords : vintage game shop, history, video game, serious game
Vintage Game Shop is a “documentary game” about the history of video games.Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit will enable you to buy rarer and more expensive items, so you can complete your personal game collection.Will you earn enough money to buy all of the most iconic games in history? The gam
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Keywords : history, video game, retro gaming, serious game, collection
AbstractSerious Games are now an established field of study. In this field most would attribute the rise of Serious Games to Clark C Abt’s creation of the term in 1970, or indeed Ben Sawyer’s popularization of it in 2002. However, considering the rich history of purposing non-digital games, itself preceded by discussions of purposing play that are traceable to the work of Plato, it can be said that Serious Games is a contemporary manifestation of centuries old theories and practices.
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Keywords : Serious games, Play, Simulation-based learning, Game-based learning, Games for social change, Games for health, Playful learning
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013.This course revolves around a Serious Game about the history of video games, that you can play below. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides) -= Vintage Game Shop : Student Edition =- (Flash file) Click here to download the "offline" version of the game (Windows EXE, 9mo)
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Keywords : history, video games, vintage game shop, serious game
This tall book (larger than A4) is a collection of articles written by different authors who offer you a journey through the main video game-related events from the year 1992, in France. The book begins with a handful of papers dealing with year-long events, such as the home console competition between Nintendo and Sega, with a lot of figures. They are completed by a portrait of Masahiro Sakurai (Kirby, Smash Bros) and another one of the Lucasarts studio. Then, several articles are dealing with
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Keywords : history, 1992, console, pc, super nes, lucasarts
(Broacasting our studies)
Retrogaming #2 : La Vectrex Cette 2eme session Rétrogaming se propose de (re)découvrir la console de jeu Vectrex (MB, 1982). Sur un plan pratique cet atelier se propose de présenter la machine et de la tester.Les différents jeux et accessoires proposées pour cette machine seront également évoqués.Enfin, une séance d'échanges autour de la Vectrex sera proposée au public.Quand ? : mercredi 8 juin de
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Keywords : Retrogaming, History, Videogames, Vectrex
(Broacasting our studies)
Retrogaming #2 : La Vectrex Cette 2eme session Rétrogaming se propose de (re)découvrir la console de jeu Vectrex (MB, 1982). Sur un plan pratique cet atelier se propose de présenter la machine et de la tester.Les différents jeux et accessoires proposées pour cette machine seront également évoqués.Enfin, une séance d'échanges autour de la Vectrex sera proposée au public.Quand ? : mercredi 8 juin de
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Keywords : Retrogaming, History, Videogames, Vectrex