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The nature of Gameplay: a videogame classification (Broacasting our studies)
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a videogames classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp(3) used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames, named "Game Bricks". The combinations of these different bricks will allow us to represent a classification, in accordance to their rules, of all the videogames. In this article we will study the real nature of these bricks, [...]Keywords : classification, gameplay, Videogames, game, play, rules
Pix'n Love (Book reference)
Pix'n Love is a journal dedicated to the history of videogames. It uses a format that is half-way between a book and a regular journal. The 128 pages of each issue explores in great details the history of a selection of games and machines, ranging from the highly popular ones (Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Megaman, Rayman, etc.) to the nearly unknown games. Each article is generally written after the interview of the creators, allowing Pix'n Love to provide the reader with a lot of novel and unique i [...]Keywords : history, interview, novel
Le monde des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
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 [...]Keywords : video games, introduction, history, genres, design
Serious Game: just a question of posture? (Broacasting our studies)
This article explains the difference between a large variety of Serious Games and tries to propose a classification to understand this type of video games. We explore the connection between the goal of the game designer, the objective of the game and the posture of the player. Finally, we explore how we can create some serious game to make corporate communication or educative program.Keywords : serious game
Towards a classification of Video Games (Broacasting our studies)
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a video games classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of video games, named "Game Bricks". The combinations of these different bricks will allow us to represent a classification, in accordance to their rules, of all the video games. In this article, we will study the real link between these bricks and [...]Keywords : Classification, Rules, Video Games, Gameplay
Party games for MSN (Student project)
A collection of party games suited for teenage girl, playable through MSN Messenger while chatting.Keywords : feminine audience
Art, jeu vidéo et cognition (Lesson)
-= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)Keywords : art
InsAdventure (Student project)
A serious game about the engineer job, focused on INSA , a french engineer school. The game features several minigames illustrating each department, thus different specializations: urban engineer, systems engineer and chemical engineer.Keywords : serious game, engineer, school, minigames
Morphological study of the video games (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this article is first to present V.E.Ga.S., a tool which intend to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. It consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composition of elementary “game bricks”. Basing our study on this bricks and crossing them, we try to classify and study video games. In a second time, this paper presents the classification deduced from the results of V.E.Ga.S.Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Experimental Methods, Gameplay, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy
Push START - 30 ans de jeux vidéo (Book reference)
An illustration-only book which features screenshots and illustrations from the most famous videogames of the last 30 years.Keywords : pictures, history