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Navigating Video Games: Studying Spatial Representations and Practices of Video Game Players (Broacasting our studies)
While video games have become a major cultural practice, we still know little about the diversity of the video game audiences and their practices. Identifying the main issues in the reticularization of the territories in which video game are used, and rising above normative debates on violence and addiction, requires a multidisciplinary approach, at the interface between social and cultural geography, and the sociology of cultural practices. The analysis of video games as spatial systems enable [...]Keywords : Cultural practice, Network, Space, Territory, Video game
Through a Chilly Land between First-Person Shoot-Em-Up and Tourist Blockbuster (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: The new media have brought with them new forms of engagement with history. Jáchym Topol’s most recent novel, which plays with a grotesque war of memorial strategies in the Czech Republic and Belarus, reacts to this challenge with intermedial references, including structural imitation and a computer game. This article describes the textual means of creating an immersive experience that include literary modelling of the narrative strategies on the first-person shooter c [...]Keywords : Transmediality, Fictional immersion, Computer gaming, Culture of memory, Collective memory, Representation of history, Jáchym Topol, Novel
Le rôle des interfaces dans l?expérience de jeu vidéo : le jeu du ping-pong et son adaptation sur des plateformes numériques (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: The market success of Video games shows us that they have become a significant alternative for leisure and entertainment. While observing the trends one can realize that game designers tend to transpose or adapt leisure activities such as dance, playing music or sports to the context of video games which has become even more obvious with the appearance of input devices incorporating physical movement as a mode of interaction. Inspired by these different forms of leisure, vide [...]Keywords : Design, videogames, interfaces, experiences, fun, interaction
Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Book reference)
Through a book of over 500 pages, game designer Scott Rogers shares his professional experience of creating videogames. This industry veteran has worked on games such as God of War, Darksiders and the Maximo series, among others. This book deals with the various steps and key-points of the game design process: ideas, scenario, writing a Game Design Document, characters, camera, controls, user interface, level design, game mechanics, enemies... The main strength of this book lies in the way the a [...]Keywords : game design, example, game design document, maximo, drawing
On structure of games (Broacasting our studies)
Games, MMOG-s (Massively Multiplayer On-Line Games), on-line social sites etc have become a major cultural and economic force. The main distinguishing features and attraction of these applications is their interactivity and emergent quality – participants constantly change the state of affairs with their actions. Gameplay, the resulting dynamic flow of events, is fascinating: this is like execution of an algorithm, where elementary actions are defined by game rules, but the logic, the flow [...]Keywords : Gameplay, Structure, On-line social , Games, MMOG-s (Massively Multiplayer On-Line Games)
Jeux et simulations éducatifs : Etudes de cas et leçons apprises (Book reference)
A thick 600-pages book detailing the findings of a large scientific research project dedicated to the use of video games for education. The 26 chapters of this book are written like quite separate contributions, and address topics ranging from theory to practice, such as the design of educational video games or the study of their effects. A book warmly recommended to any researcher in the field thanks to very rich book contents, backed by an extensive literature review and several field experime [...]Keywords : serious game, education, theory, practice, design, literature review
Un marché très sérieux (A very serious market) (Broacasting our studies)
Serious games: behind this oxymore a business hides which goes up in power since the middle of the years 2000. Formation, drive, publicity… The companies obtain new tools directly inspired from video games. Analyzes of the market (p. 86 to 91).Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Market
Replay : The History of Video Games (Book reference)
Alongside with "The Ultimate History of Videogames" and "La Saga des Jeux vidéo", here is without a doubt the third must-read book for anyone who want to have a global view on the history of videogames. The authors starts from the early games up to nowadays, and tells the story of the most important games and machines thanks to interviews with their creators. The added value of this book compared to the two previous ones is the fact that, in addition to tackling [...]Keywords : history, united kindgom, france, europe
JEUX VIDÉO : les Serious Games ont le vent en poupe (Video games: the Serious games are going on) (Broacasting our studies)
Il y a seulement deux ans, ils n'étaient qu'une poignée en France à s'y intéresser. Aujourd'hui, le serious game, le jeu vidéo "sérieux", semble devenir un outil incontournable de communication et de formation. 20 millions d'euros ont été débloqués par le gouvernement pour aider 48 projets. To read the postKeywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Video game
Les jeux sérieux entrent à l'école (The Serious games are coming at school) (Broacasting our studies)
Video games have teaching virtues. The companies have discovered it and have adopted them for their formations. Here the turn of school. Some pioneers introduce them into their classes (p.59).Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, School, Pedagogy