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
Avec "The Ultimate History of Videogames" et "La Saga des Jeux vidéo", voici sans conteste le troisième ouvrage indispensable pour avoir une vision globale de l'histoire du jeu vidéo. L'auteur y repart des premiers jeux jusqu'à nos jours, et raconte les histoires de jeux ou machines importantes à l'aide d'interviews de leur créateur. La valeur ajouté de cet ouvrage par rapport à ses deux prédécesseurs est l
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Mots-clés : histoire, europe, royaume-uni, france
ABSTRACT: Video games have become a prime choice of entertainment not only for young people but also in adults or women. Development Studies advertisers and organizations that mediate between them have discovered the potential of videogames as a medium for marketing communication. Thus, the advergame and the in-game advertising have become a powerful and dynamic medium for communicating ideas, products, services or items in an original manner, which also offers video game development studios an
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Mots-clés : Publicité, Advergame, In-game advertising, Placement de produits, Jeux vidéo
Video games are ubiquitous in modern day life. Unfortunately, several children are overweight or even obese because they spend a lot of time watching television or playing non-physical video games, instead of perfoming physical activities. Furthermore, this lack of exercise affects their development. The fact that children are becoming overweight or obese is a health concern for many countries that are economical developed (like England) or are in development (like Mexico). In this paper we pres
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Mots-clés : Costs, Medical treatment, Pediatrics, Minimally invasive surgery, TV, Games, Airplanes, Virtual reality
La référence francophone sur l'histoire du jeu vidéo. Cet ouvrage indispensable, qui a connu cinq éditions différentes entre 1997 et 2012, brosse le portrait de jeux connus grâce à l'interview de leur créateurs : Pong, Tomb Raider, Tetris, Doom, Myst, Sim City... En toile de fond, l'auteur y suis le parcours du créateur français Philippe Ulrich, fondateur de Cryo, dont la carrière permet de revenir sur les diff&eac
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Mots-clés : histoire, france, philippe ulrich
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to study the nature of videogames. We will focus on videogames rules in order to try to understand the anatomy of a videogame. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for his classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames. We then analyzed these rules diagrams by using the definition of a game drawn by Salen & Zimmerman, which led us to propose a definition for the nature
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Mots-clés : règles, gameplay, Jeux vidéo, Typologie, classification
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a videogames classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have identified recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames, that we called “Gameplay Bricks”. The combinations of these different bricks should allow us to represent a classification of all videogames in accordance with their rules. In this article, we will study the nature of these bricks, es
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Mots-clés : gameplay, classification
SGSE 2007 - Conférence Julian Alvarez & Damien Djaouti envoyé par lyongame
Mots-clés : serious game, gameplay
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to study the nature of videogames. We will focus on videogames rules in order to try to understand the anatomy of a videogame. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for his classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames. We then analysed these rules diagrams by using the definition of a game drawn by Salen & Zimmerman, which led us to propose a definition for the nature
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Mots-clés : Gameplay, Typologie, Jeux vidéo, Règles, Classification