Since the first days of the Serious Gaming industry, many Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare were released. However, all these games don’t serve the same purpose, nor they target the same audience. This article tries to propose an approach suited to handle the variety of such Serious Games. Starting from general definitions of Serious Games, we will build a taxonomy of Healthcare-related to Serious Games accompanied with several examples.
Keywords : Serious Game, Retro Serious Game, Taxonomy, Healthcare, Prevention
We took part in the organization of Serious Game creation contest ran by Whosegame, a website owned by Orange. Constestant had to design a videogame dealing whith one of the following topics:Les participants devaient imaginer et réaliser un jeu vidéo traitant d'une des thématiques suivantes : Improving one's knowledge of telecommunications. Being an eco-citizen with the help of telecommunication technologies. - Acting against isolation and exclusion thanks to
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Keywords : serious game, contest
During this joint talk with Ben Sawyer, we presented a deep look on the classification of Serious Games, and the possible links between videogames-related and serious games-related classification systems. Talk slides (space bar or left / right to navigate) Video recording of the talk (4 parts)
Keywords : classification, serious games
Keywords : Serious Games, Learning
Acces to a 3000 Serious Games classifications sorted by authors, years of creation, markets...
Keywords : Serious games
A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology. Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game. Publication
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Keywords : serious game, ecology
A Serious Game released by the builders of an ecological town, called Andromède, in order to raise people awareness about the way to create and manage ecological public gardens. Will you manage to create a nice park while avoiding to waste water? Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Game Design - Considérations théoriques et techniques sur la création de jeux vidéo à vocation utilitaire" Th&e
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Keywords : serious game, ecology
Keywords : Serious Games, Learning