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Why So Serious? On the Relation of Serious Games and Learning (Broacasting our studies)

Serious games have become a key segment in the games market as well as in academic research. Although the number of games that identify themselves as belonging to this category as well as the research done on their effects has been rapidly growing, there has thus far been no attempt to define all of the various opportunities that digital games provide for learning. To address this issue we look at existing definitions of serious games and their potential for learning. We identify the shortcoming [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Learning

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A classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is to present a classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach. The methodology consisted in indexing a significant number of video games by taking account their elementary “game bricks”. At last all these combinations have been studied in a database called V.E.Ga.S. Access to proceedings

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Game, Play, Morphology

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Game Classification (Our projects)

A research project designed to build a classification system suited to videogames. This projet resulted in a website featuring a collaborative classification system based on multiple criterias. The games are classified according to their gameplay, their purposes, their markets and target audience, alongside with user-contributed keywords.     http://www.gameclassification.com     The classification of videogames, a complex problem... The classification of videogame [...]

Keywords : classification, videogames

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