LudoScience

Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure.

Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1

The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay?

Publications related to this project

Many analysis have yet to be done, but you can read the first steps of this research in the following articles:

• Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Gilles Methel
  "Play, Game, World : Anatomy of a Videogame"
  International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation, Volume 5 - Number 1, ISSN 1477-2043, 2008.
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• Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Gilles Methel, Pierre Molinier
  "A Gameplay Definition through Videogame Classification"
  International Journal of Computer Game Technology, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 1er trimerstre, 2008.
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• Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Gilles Methel
  "Towards a classification of Video Games"
  Actes du colloque "Artificial and Ambient Intelligence convention (Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence) (AISB (ASAMi) 2007)", Newcastle upon Tyne, Royaume-Uni, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 2007.
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