Nowadays Serious Games (SGs) are becoming more and more popular and establish themself as an important research field of e-learning. Since the first multimedia SGs developed for US Army in 2002 (www.americasarmy.com), videogames have been increasingly... References (1): Djaouti D., Alvarez J., Jessel J., Rampnoux O. (2011). “Origins of serious games,” in Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, eds Ma M., Oikonomou A., Jain L. C., editors. (New Y
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Mots-clés : Serious Game
a b s t r a c t Immersive technologies such as virtual environments and augmented reality have a clear potential to support the experiencing of cultural heritage by the large public, complementing the current tools and practices based on tangible goods such as museums, exhibitions, books and visual content. Serious games – videogames designed for educational objectives – appear as a new tool to learn cultural content in an engaging way. In this paper, we will provide an extensiv
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Mots-clés : Héritage culturel (Cultural heritage), Serious Game
Ce livre s'intéresse à l'histoire du jeu vidéo au Royaume-Uni, ou, pour être plus précis, aux titres majeurs de l'histoire vidéoludique qui sont d'origine britannique : Tomb Raider, Grand Theft, Auto, Elite, MUD, Populous, Lemmings, Carmageddon, Runescape, EarthWormJim... Ce livre aborde également avec moult détails l'histoire de certains ordinateurs anglais, tel que la famille des ZX de Sinclair, les ordinateurs Amstrad, ou encore le BBC Mi
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Mots-clés : histoire, jeu vidéo, royaume-uni, grand theft auto, tomb raider, elite, populous, mud
L'autobiographie de Ralph Baer, l'inventeur des consoles de jeux vidéo de salon. Sortie en 1972, la Magnavox Odyssey est un des points de départ important de l'histoire du jeu vidéo. D'une part, il s'agit de la première console vidéo uniquement dédiée au jeu. Mais surtout, un des ses titres, Ping-Pong, a servi d'inspiration directe à Atari pour son célèbre Pong. A travers un ouvrage richement illustré, Ralph Baer no
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Mots-clés : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, premier jeu video, simon, proces, biographie
De son titre complet, "Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Dropouts, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form", cet ouvrage ne ressemble en rien à la plupart des autres publications traitant de jeu vidéo, comme en atteste d'ailleurs sa couverture torturée : Original, cet ouvrage l'est également dans son propos : il s'agit d'un appel lancé à tous les créateur
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Mots-clés : game design, amateur, auteur, outils
A small contribution to a book related to the design of videogames interfaces.
Mots-clés : game design, interface
Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective
The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog
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Mots-clés : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content
This article focuses on tools that allow amateurs to create or modify videogames. In order to contribute to study the nature of game design, we will analyze games as crafted "artifacts". We will first review five categories of tools that allow creating games, in order to highlight the different "parts" games are made of. We will then use this empirical review to introduce a simple model of the inner structure of games: the ISICO model.
Mots-clés : game design, tools, mods, game creation toolkits, gaming 2.0
Un article sur l'histoire des jeux vidéo pionniers inventés au MIT entre 1959 et 1962 : Mouse in a Maze, Tic-Tac-Toe, Qubic, PDP-1 Chess et Spacewar!
Mots-clés : histoire, pionniers, mit, videogames