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Vintage Game Shop released (Blog post)
The ludoscience team is pleased to announce the release of a new game created in our laboratory: Vintage Game Shop. It's a “documentary game” about the history of video games. The game is freeware, available for Web browser and Mobile (Android and iOS). Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit wil [...]Keywords : vintage game shop, history, video game, serious game
Vintage Game Shop (Videogame)
Vintage Game Shop is a “documentary game” about the history of video games.Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit will enable you to buy rarer and more expensive items, so you can complete your personal game collection.Will you earn enough money to buy all of the most iconic games in history? The gam [...]Keywords : history, video game, retro gaming, serious game, collection
Serious game as a therapeutic tool in psychiatry: A systematic review (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractContextThe growing field of new technologies offers new ways to tackle psychiatric disorders (e.g. virtual reality therapy, neurofeedback, etc.). Serious games (SG) are computer applications combining serious aspects with the fun side of video games. This kind of new media could find applications to treat psychiatric disorders.ObjectiveThis paper summarizes available data in the literature about therapeutic interventions using SG in psychiatry.MethodA Medline search was conducted in May [...]Keywords : Psychiatry, Video game, Psychotherapy, Serious game, Psychiatric disorder
Requirements Engineering for Pervasive Games Based Smart Learning Systems (Broacasting our studies)
The overlap of different features of pervasive games based smart learning systems (PGBSLSs) including the ludic aspect, the pervasive aspect and the educational aspect adds complexity to use requirements at design time and Runtime. Many methodologies and frameworks that make use of requirements models can be found in the literature, but very few of them use ontologies to ground the models that are used in PGBSLSs development. We propose in this paper a semantic model in the requirements engineer [...]Keywords : Pervasive games, Smart Learning, Requirements Engineering, Ontology
Jeu vidéo : une rapide histoire générale (Version 2) (Lesson)
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013.This course revolves around a Serious Game about the history of video games, that you can play below. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides) -= Vintage Game Shop : Student Edition =- (Flash file) Click here to download the "offline" version of the game (Windows EXE, 9mo) [...]Keywords : history, video games, vintage game shop, serious game
L'Année Jeu Vidéo : 1992 (Book reference)
This tall book (larger than A4) is a collection of articles written by different authors who offer you a journey through the main video game-related events from the year 1992, in France. The book begins with a handful of papers dealing with year-long events, such as the home console competition between Nintendo and Sega, with a lot of figures. They are completed by a portrait of Masahiro Sakurai (Kirby, Smash Bros) and another one of the Lucasarts studio. Then, several articles are dealing with [...]Keywords : history, 1992, console, pc, super nes, lucasarts
E3 2016 : les nouveautés les plus attendues au plus grand salon mondial du jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
L'E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), le plus grand salon annuel du jeu vidéo, se tiendra cette semaine du 14 au 16 juin au Los Angeles Convention Center à Los Angeles. Il réunira des journalistes du monde entier, et sera le théâtre d'annonces des nouveautés et exclusivités des plus grands éditeurs (Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo) qui modèleront l'univers vidéoludique pour l'année toute entière.Keywords : Video game, Industry, Virtual Reality, Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox
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Retrogaming #2 : La Vectrex Cette 2eme session Rétrogaming se propose de (re)découvrir la console de jeu Vectrex (MB, 1982). Sur un plan pratique cet atelier se propose de présenter la machine et de la tester.Les différents jeux et accessoires proposées pour cette machine seront également évoqués.Enfin, une séance d'échanges autour de la Vectrex sera proposée au public.Quand ? : mercredi 8 juin de [...]Keywords : Retrogaming, History, Videogames, Vectrex