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Les "usines à jeux" : la création de Serious Games par les enseignants ? (Broacasting our studies)
A confrence about the "Game Creation Toolkit" (software that can help create videogames) and how it can be used by teachers to create Serious Games for their students.Keywords : serious game, game creation toolkits, schools
Serious games for expertise training: Rules in questions (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:We propose the Architecture for Representations, Games, Interactions, and Learning among Experts (ARGILE) for participatory and knowledge - intensive serious games. Faced with the problem of training in the areas of advanced expertise and practices, reference knowledge is neither stabilized nor unanimous, but rather dynamic and continuously evolving. Moreover, the expert does not make decisions based on pre-established recipes, but it is brought to trial and error, to discuss with peers [...]Keywords : Games, Training, Computers, Computer architecture, Discussion forums, Communities, Knowledge engineering
Navigational techniques to improve usability and user experience in RPG games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:This paper presents the design and implementation of a mini map navigation system into an RPG Action Adventure game created using Unity3D game engine with the goal of improving the usability and user experience. The main aim of this work is to find out how a mini map navigation system can be beneficial to the end user and improve the over game play of a video game. The mini map can help reducing the user frustration, as well as aiding story progression so that it keeps the user immersed [...]Keywords : Games, Navigation, Prototypes, Usability, Animation, Cameras, Computers
(Serious) Game Design tools (Broacasting our studies)
A quick presentation of theoretical tools that can be used to design entertainment games and Serious Games.Keywords : serious games, game design, tools
Core: Business of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
A 50-minutes conference with 6 speakers about the industry of Serious Games.Keywords : serious game, industry
Introducing the European Serious Games Awards! (Blog post)
The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012. *Prizes* Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash priz [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europe
The European Serious Games Awards (Our projects)
The European Serious Games Awards aims to celebrate the best works on games for learning in Europe. Organized by GALA (an European Network of Excellence dedicated to research on Serious Games), these awards are quite different from other awards. Instead of relying on the sole advice of a few experts, the European Serious Games Awards are based on a scientific analysis of the games. The Awards ceremony took place during the VS-Games 2012 conference. Organized in Genoa (Italy) from 29 to 31 Octobe [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europa, academia
Introduction au Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
A 1-hour introductory conference to understand what a Serious Game is.Keywords : serious game, introduction
E-virtuoses 2012 (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 May 23rd to 24th in France, in the city of Valenciennes, near Lille.Keywords : serious game, conference, awards, international, scientifique symposium
JIES Paris 2012 days (Blog post)
JIES Paris 2012 days approach the topic of the game in sciences education. Intended for the professionals of education, these days are centered towards the reflexion on the relationship between sciences, technology, trainings and games. Ludoscience, represented by Julian Alvarez, was invited to take part to the event May the 3rd. Thank you Traces for its invitation. We will return with pleasure to exchange again with the actors who question themselves on the introdu [...]Keywords : Learning, Education, Game