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Ralph Baer : Mémoires du père des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
The autobiography of Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video game consoles. Released in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey is one of the starting points of the history of video games. First of all, it's the first video console solely dedicated to games. Moreover, one of its titles, Ping-Pong, was a direct source of inspiration for Atari to create Pong. Through a book featuring many pictures, Ralph Baer details us the process he followed to invent this first console ever. As a natural-born engineer, [...]Keywords : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, first video game, simon, lawsuit, biography
Book chapter: Origins of Serious Games (Blog post)
We wrote an article about the historical origins of "Serious Games", which get published by Springer in the book "Serious Games and Edutainment Applications" a few months ago. We first review the historical definitions of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We then explore the history of videogames in search of the first "Serious Games", that actually appeared before the first entertainment videogames... This book gathers several scientific articles ded [...]Keywords : serious games, history
Watch them play (Broacasting our studies)
A small contribution to a book related to the design of videogames interfaces.Keywords : game design, interface
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters (Book reference)
This book a call for all amateurs creators around the world to use videogames as means for their personal expression. The authors states that most commercial videogames are guided by market analysis more than creativity, as she concludes that this trend results in locking the expressive potential of videogames. But for Anna Anthropy, an American game designer recognized for its unique creations, there is still some hope left: what the industry can't or don't want to produce, the amateur game des [...]Keywords : amateur, indie
Update of the "Our projects" section (Blog post)
We updated the section featuring our projects. Now it gathers about twenty of our projects: creation of videogames (Serious Games, Social Games, Alternate Reality Games, simulators...), creation of 2.0 websites and online databases, and organization of events like game creation contests or Serious Games discovery night parties.Keywords : ludoscience, projects
Welcome to the Ludoscience Blog! (Blog post)
In order to celebrate the third birthday of this website, we decided to upgrade it up with some nice features: This blog. After nearly three years of being a depot for our research articles and our students projets , this website is now featuring a brand new blog! We will try to use it to provide information relative to the study of videogames, Serious Games and to keep up informed about the life in our laboratory. A new "Our Projects" section. The old one weren't updated s [...]Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy
Les 1001 jeux vidéos auxquels il faut avoir joué dans sa vie (Book reference)
This book presents a personal selection by the author of 1001 noteworthy videogames, coming from every period of the videogames history. Each games is introduced by a small text alongside one or several screenshots.This book is a french translation of an English-written book first published in 2010 and titled "1001 video games you must play before you die." This original English version was updated and republished in 2013 under the same title.Keywords : encyclopedia, history
8 Bits of Wisdom: Video Game Lessons for Real Life's Endbosses (Book reference)
An comical essay where the author analyses the "life lessons" embedded in some of the classical videogames from 8 and 16 bits home consoles (namely NES, Super NES, Genesis). For example, the two-players mode in Contra is about having a best friend, while Paperboy will teach you the basics of customer service. The quality of the different book chapters is very variable, but some chapters are excellent and they will undoubtedly makes you smile or laugh (in particular the hilarious chapte [...]Keywords : humor, nes, super nes, genesis, life lessons