French TV chanel dedicated to the video games and to the Japan culture
Keywords : Television
Matt Chat knows a lot about video games. He describes some mytic titles like Myst, M.U.L.E., Defender of the Crown...
Keywords : Video, Retro gaming
A video about the video games story
Keywords : Video, Retro gaming
AbstractThis dissertation presents a multi-method approach to study the user experience of playing video games. The motivation is to devise an objective assessment of the concept of user experience. It is proposed that user experience is better understood when it is studied as a two fold phenomenon formed by a process and an outcome. This definition allows the combination of the subjective nature of experience together with the objectivity needed to propose an objective assessment of experi
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Keywords : User experience, Video Game, Gaming experience, Metaphor
This book is dedicated to arcade video games in Japan. Each of the 9 chapters of this book is dedicated to a specific kind of arcade game: UFO Catchers (mechanical games where you have to catch objects with a grip), Puriruka (improved photo booths loved by teenagers girls), rhythm games, shoot'em ups, fighting games, games of chance (Pachinko, Mahjong...), dedicated arcade games (for those seeking adrenaline through Taikan games), retrogaming (arcade games from the 80's and 90's still played tod
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Keywords : arcade, japan, versus fighting, shoot'em up, ufo catcher, rythm game, purikura, players
Abstract Players of video games often find themselves at a set location, in a room or a game hall, playing alone, with family or friends, even both, or maybe with strangers over the Internet. The game becomes intense when the player reaches a crucial moment or event. Such moments might be when the player has reached a new level, received a new piece of equipment, found the last hidden key or is about to kill the last “boss” in the game to win a war. The emotional state of the pl
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Keywords : Pervasive games, Learning
Distance learning technology used at the beginning of 2000s has not gained a wide approval. Recently, the numerous new options rendered possible by NTIC development have not yet been analyzed or interpreted properly and a through indepth study of e-learning is lacking. We distinguish three on-line methods of e-learning. Rapid learning consists on static information publishing which, in best cases, can have knowledge tests or spoken information. To improve this, a training by “scenarios&rdq
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A Wii near the coffe machine? To play PES in order to animate a meeting? Business stratgies elaborated thanks to Advance Wars? Not at all, we're going to talk about "serious games"...Read the article (french).
"This week, it's serious! The Serious Gaming is a new market of the video game industry dedicated to the learning, advertising, political... areas. A world market of 50 billions USD." Journalist :Cédric Ingrand Speakers : Jean-Claude La Rue (SELL), Sébastien Beck (DAESIGN) et Julian Alvarez (Orange Labs/ Ludoscience). Podcast
Keywords : Serious Games, LCI, Plein Ecran, Market, Video games, Serious Gaming
1 Introduction As one of the fastest growing segments of the global entertainment market (Szalai, 2007), video games have come to represent a wide spectrum of values in terms of expectations and design decisions of the groups involved in their development and publication. Despite a rapidly expanding market, changing demographics and growing global economic importance, regional differences in game designs have yet to be fully explored. The underlying premise of this research is that game com
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Keywords : Video games, Genre, Game components