Over a series of 7 books, Florent Gorges wrote the most complete history of Nintendo. The texts are easy to read and full of unique information, and are illustrated with many pictures of all the games and toys created by the company. This first book in the series is focused on the numerous creations made by Nintendo before entering the video and electronic games market: playing cards, toys, arcades, and some weird stuffs like office supplies. An absolute must-read book.This book was translated i
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Keywords : history, nintendo, toys, cards
Presentation of the revue Par rapport aux enjeux concernant les objets numériques de l'univers des jeunes, notre parti-pris habituel, notre réflexe, est d'abord d'avoir une approche souvent exclusive d'éducateur, et ce, non sans raisons. L'intérêt de cet article, à partir de l'exemple des serious games, est de vouloir situer ces enjeux, des points de vue à la fois du concepteur marketing de "produits à consommer" et de l
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Keywords : serious game, e-learning, edugaming, advergaming, edumarket game, serious gaming, advergame, edugame
By analysing in detail the characteristics, uses and different genres of serious game, this study outlines the challenges involved with the design, development and distribution of various types of title. Similarly, the report examines the outlook for the industry and its probable growth drivers. The serious gaming market is of considerable importance. As the link between traditional video games and practical software, serious games offer a genuine opportunity to develop a sector that is all too
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Keywords : serious game, advergame, edugame, news game, edumarket game, serious gaming, edugaming, advergaming
By analysing in detail the characteristics, uses and different genres of serious game, this study outlines the challenges involved with the design, development and distribution of various types of title. Similarly, the report examines the outlook for the industry and its probable growth drivers. The serious gaming market is of considerable importance. As the link between traditional video games and practical software, serious games offer a genuine opportunity to develop a sector that is all too
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Keywords : serious game, advergame, edugame, news game, edumarket game, serious gaming, advergaming, edugaming
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Keywords : serious game, marketing
Spinoff created from Game Classification, this website aims to gather and classify as many Serious Games as possible. Therefore, it relies on a classification model designed for Serious Games, the G/P/S model (Gameplay / Purpose / Scope). http://serious.gameclassification.com/ Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Olivier Rampnoux "Origins of Serious Games" Minhua Ma, Andrea Oikonomou, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), « Serio
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Keywords : serious game, classification
This tiny 88 pages book attempts to provide a introduction to the world of video games to people who doesn't know anything about them. It begins with a quick summary of the history of video games, followed by a detailed presentation of the main games genres. It then presents the main steps of the creation process of a video games, and ends with leads for their future. The book is written in a way that makes each topic covered over two pages only: video games from the 70's, the 80's, the 90's, ac
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Keywords : video games, introduction, history, genres, design
Que l’éducation nationale, les Nations Unies et Greenpeace par exemple utilisent des jeux vidéos pour faire passer un message et communiquer, cela révèle que cette forme de loisir numérique constitue une alternative crédible aux formes classiques de la communication. De plus si le message intègre une dimension éducative, au sens le plus global du terme, nous pensons que nous sommes face à un n
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Keywords : Serious Game, Advertainment, Edugame, Education, Innovation, Marketing, Réception
This book details the history of Commode, a company who built legendary computers such as the Commodore PET, theVIC-20, the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. Over more than 550 pages, this book presents the full history of the company, with incredible details and a lot of unique information obtained through interviews with former employees. The story begins in 1976 with Chuck Peddle, an engineer working for MOS Technology, who designed a microprocessor called 6502. It was the first one to be cheap eno
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Keywords : commodore, commodore 64, amiga, jack tramiel, computer