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Les métiers des jeux vidéo et de l'animation (Book reference)
This book is a guide presenting the professional side of the videogames universe in a simple but complete way. It's divided in 4 parts. The first one presents the "day-to-day reality", by answering questions like "how do we create videogames?", "do we spent the day playing games?" or "can we became rich?", etc. The second part dissects the different jobs related to videogames, and explains their role and the kind of skills they require: game designer, scen [...]Keywords : jobs, training courses, video games, industry, company, guide, student
New lessons materials (Blog post)
While this will be of little use if you can't read french, I just uploaded 5 new lessons materials on the website: An overall presentation of the history of videogames (from 1952 to 2013).A presentation of the various jobs related to videogames (from AAA game designers to indies or journalist).An updated version of our presentation of the Game Design theories.An updated version of our presentation about the structure of games (i.e. what is gameplay?).An introduction to Serious Games, to [...]Keywords : lessons materials
L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)
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
Structure d'un jeu vidéo (version 2) (Lesson)
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
Théories du Game Design (version 2) (Lesson)
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
French Industry Year Book 2013 (Book reference)
This directory lists over 270 french companies working on video games. Each company is introduced by a short text and several images of their games, alongside with full contact details. A vital resource for any student looking for an internship, or for professionals looking for studios to hire!Besides the physical copy of the book, an electronic version is freely available here.Keywords : france, videogames, directory, company, industry
New website section: games created by Ludoscience! (Blog post)
As the summer goes, a new section appears on this website: games made at the Ludoscience laboratory! This new section will let you play the various videogames created by the members of the laboratory during their research projects. Hence, this new section is different from our reseach projects section (that gathers research projects that are not games, or games that are not available to the general public) and from our students projects section (that solely gathers games created by the st [...]Keywords : website updates, videogames
Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs de Jeux Vidéo 8/16-bits (Book reference)
This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg [...]Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers
Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action / Designing large-scale games for community engagement (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:In light of calls that civic participation is declining, efforts are underway to replace outdated, unproductive forms of citizenship. With the majority of Americans now connected to the Internet, community leaders see the digital realm as the new frontier for promoting engagement. Increasingly, digital games are being designed for the express purpose of promoting community engagement and social action. My thesis examines this emerging practice of civic game design. Within this thesis, I [...]La création de Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs : une expérimentation empirique (Broacasting our studies)
In a video game design teaching course, we chose to replace the creation of entertainment videogames by the creation of Newsgames (i.e. Serious Games about news topics). Thanks to this change, our course seems to be able to enhance the critical thinking skills of students while still teaching them how to design videogames. For example, several students designed different videogames about the same news topic. This project required them to exchange their own opinions and discuss about the news top [...]Keywords : newsgame, design, project based learning