Our game Moreia just got featured on IndieGames! For his article, the journalist got in touch with the author of game Moreia is paying tribute to: MS Boa, created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. This game was originally created to promote a new mouse model released by Microsoft. Therefore, although being a freeware, MS Boa was solely distributed through the driver disks of this mouse! Here is a picture of this little know game: By the way, as we speak about Moreia, the act
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Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa
As the summer goes, a new section appears on this website: games made at the Ludoscience laboratory! This new section will let you play the various videogames created by the members of the laboratory during their research projects. Hence, this new section is different from our reseach projects section (that gathers research projects that are not games, or games that are not available to the general public) and from our students projects section (that solely gathers games created by the st
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Keywords : website updates, videogames
Moreia is a quick mouse-based dexterity game. You are being chased by a giant moray eel, and you must escape it for as long as possible, while avoiding to hit the walls around the screen. You can think of this game as a "Snake", except that this time you are not controlling the snake but a pill that really don't want to be eaten!Use the mouse to move the pill around the screen. Don't touch the moray eel or the walls. You'll earn 1 point for each "step" made by the moray eel,
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Keywords : mouse, dexterity, snake, tribute
The recognition of facial expressions is important for the perception of emotions. Understanding emotions is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in the recognition of affective expressions. Their difficulties in understanding and expressing emotions lead to inappropriate behavior derived from their inability to interact adequately with other people. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent in individuals with auti
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An article on the history of the pionner videogames invented at the MIT between 1959 and 1962: Mouse in a Maze, Tic-Tac-Toe, Qubic, PDP-1 Chess and Spacewar!
Keywords : history, pionner, mit, videogames
A very original Serious Game concept, aimed to teach basic life-saving emergency procedures that everybody should be aware of. Mouse and Keyboard are used to simulate a cardiac massage. (gameplay concept)
Keywords : free topic, serious game
Drive it (Student project)
Use the ball to "drive" each block towards the upper-right square. A variant on the classical game "Breakout ".
Keywords : mouse
A videogame project involving a flying ferret, which is controled in an innovative way trough mouse inputs (Game Design documents).
Keywords : mouse