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Creative Evolution of Digital Leisure Culture, Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
At the dawn of a new digital era, people`s way of spending their leisure time and leisure activity preferences changed. Accordingly, Leisure culture is in the midst of change, such as watching movie and performance, enjoy golf etc. Due to its nature as an interactive medium, the digital game offers uniquely different approaches to the leisure activity. Leisure as state of mind is much more subjective in that it considers the individual`s perception of an activity. In that regard, we used the dig [...]Keywords : Serious game, Digital game
Les métiers des jeux vidéo et de l'animation (Book reference)
This book is a guide presenting the professional side of the videogames universe in a simple but complete way. It's divided in 4 parts. The first one presents the "day-to-day reality", by answering questions like "how do we create videogames?", "do we spent the day playing games?" or "can we became rich?", etc. The second part dissects the different jobs related to videogames, and explains their role and the kind of skills they require: game designer, scen [...]Keywords : jobs, training courses, video games, industry, company, guide, student
L'Histoire des jeux vidéo polémiques - Volume 1: Jeux de course/action et jeux érotiques (Book reference)
A series of books dedicated to videogames considered as controversial due to their content: violence, sex, promotion of an ideology. This first book in the series is dedicated to two kinds of videogames: car-action games (Death Race, Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto) and erotic games (the Atari 2600 games by Mystique, Rapelay, Singles, 7 sins, Playboy the Mansion...). Each title is discussed through a variable number of pages, from one or two pages to more than a dozen depending on how much the aut [...]Keywords : violence, sex, polemic, politics, grand theft auto, rapelay, familles de france, shane fenton
French Industry Year Book 2013 (Book reference)
This directory lists over 270 french companies working on video games. Each company is introduced by a short text and several images of their games, alongside with full contact details. A vital resource for any student looking for an internship, or for professionals looking for studios to hire!Besides the physical copy of the book, an electronic version is freely available here.Keywords : france, videogames, directory, company, industry
AREF 2013 - member of the organizing committee (Broacasting our studies)
Participation in the organizing committee of the AREF 2013 conference.Keywords : aref 2013, organizing
Tu le crois ça ? (Book reference)
The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's [...]Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt
Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs de Jeux Vidéo 8/16-bits (Book reference)
This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg [...]Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers
Réaliser des Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs ? (Broacasting our studies)
Depuis 2005, nous dispensons des cours sur la conception de jeux vidéo aux étudiants de plusieurs cursus universitaires et centres de formation (INSA et plusieurs départements de l’Université de Toulouse, France). L’objectif pédagogique visé est d’amener les apprenants à concevoir et réaliser de petits projets de jeux vidéo à message. Les thématiques étant orientées par exemple sur la sen [...]Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning
E-virtuoses 2013 (Our projects)
The e-virtuoses is an international event dedicated to Serious Games. It features a rich program of international conferences about the future of the field, a Serious Games Awards ceremony to celebrate the best titles of the moment, alongside with a scientific symposium focused on the analysis of Serious Games. The event took place from June 4th to 5th in France, in the city of Valenciennes, near Lille.Keywords : serious game, conference, awards, international, scientifique symposium
Jeuxvideo.com : Une odyssée interactive (Book reference)
The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website [...]Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive