The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog
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Keywords : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content
This report analyses the different Serious Game markets through a systematic examination of the technologies, the uses made of the games and the different professions involved, with particular focus on the key stages of design, development and distribution. It also explores the outlook for each market segment....
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play
This report analyses the different Serious Game markets through a systematic examination of the technologies, the uses made of the games and the different professions involved, with particular focus on the key stages of design, development and distribution. It also explores the outlook for each market segment....
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play
This article focuses on tools that allow amateurs to create or modify videogames. In order to contribute to study the nature of game design, we will analyze games as crafted "artifacts". We will first review five categories of tools that allow creating games, in order to highlight the different "parts" games are made of. We will then use this empirical review to introduce a simple model of the inner structure of games: the ISICO model.
Keywords : game design, tools, game creation toolkit, mods, gaming 2.0
A book about Serious Games, written by the two heads of a company who is one of the french leader in this area, KTM Advance. This book offers a captivating real-life feedback from people working in the Serious Games industry, and who share with us some cases studies and detail the design methodology they use in their company. A rare and very interesting testimony that should be more than relevant for anyone working professionally on Serious Games.
Keywords : serious game, entreprise, ktm advance, design methodology
An article on the history of the pionner videogames invented at the MIT between 1959 and 1962: Mouse in a Maze, Tic-Tac-Toe, Qubic, PDP-1 Chess and Spacewar!
Keywords : history, pionner, mit, videogames
An article about the first videogames from 1947 to 1958: the CRT Amusement Device, the NIMrod, OXO, HutSpiel and Tennis for Two.
Keywords : history, pioneers, videogames
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An article about using the GamePlay bricks with arcade games
Keywords : bricks, gameplay, arcade
An interview of Emmanuel Forsans, CEO of AFJV. In the 80's and 90's he designed Retro SG. Pix'n Love n°9 (p. 24 to 29).
Keywords : Serious Games, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games, Interview