Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) is a book on the history of SEGA as a console manufacturer. After a brief introduction telling the birth of the company, this thick 480 pages book details the story of all its home consoles: SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis with its Sega CD and Sega 32X addons, Saturn and the Dreamcast. While the beginnings of SEGA and its first two consoles are explained rather quickly over 30 pages, the main part of the bo
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Keywords : history of videogames, sega, genesis, sega cd, sega 32x, saturn, dreamcast
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w
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Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
A lesson outlining Shigeru Miyamoto's early career, from his beginning at Nintendo in 1977 to the release of Zelda in 1986.
Keywords : shigeru miyamoto, mario, zelda, donkey kong, nintendo
Rules of the "Card Game Jam", a small design challenge with a very strong time constraint.
Keywords : cards, game jam, game design
It also christmas here at Ludoscience, and to celebrate this holiday we are happy to release a new videogame! The game is called "The One Fork Restaurant". It's a tiny game created in 48h for the Ludum Dare 28 competition, on the theme "You Only Get One." The game takes place in a restaurant where many customers are coming to eat, but unfortunately the restaurant has only one fork! So the customers have to share this fork in order to eat their meals, but they aren't rea
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Keywords : ludum dare 28, you only got one, experimental game
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : videogames, history, consoles generations, firsts videogames
A presentation about the inner structure of videogames: the different kind of rules, the game elements, etc. Tries to answer the following question: "What is gameplay?" -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : videogame, structure, gameplay
A presentation about several Game Design theories, aimed to help you understand why people plays games. It introduces the ideas of emergence vs progression (Jesper Juul), the concept of Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) and the theory of Fun (Raph Koster). -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides) Download the game Frog Hunt (1.7mo)
Keywords : game design, theory, fun, flow, level design
A presentation about "Serious Games", i.e. games designed for purposes going beyond entertainment. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)
Keywords : serious games, introduction, discovery, examples, history