=====================Résumé de la présentation=====================Selon la BNF, depuis 2014, le Ministère de la Culture tient à ce que nous privilégions le vocable « jeu sérieux » à la place de « Serious Game ». Il convient cependant de souligner qu’une telle traduction introduit une subtilité. En effet, dans la langue française, la notion de « jeu »
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Keywords : Serious game
Cette présentation expose à un public génraliste un petit résumé de l'histoire des Serious Games. Programme de la journée : Cette nouvelle forme de communication et d’apprentissage, issue des jeux vidéo, se retrouve peu à peu dans tous les domaines de notre vie, de l’école au travail, en passant par notre santé ou notre citoyenneté. D’où viennent-ils, quels sont leurs usages, comment l
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Keywords : Serious Game, History
An article from the website IndieGames.com about the game Moreia, created by Dr.Ludos.
Keywords : indie game, news
Depuis 2005, nous dispensons des cours sur la conception de jeux vidéo aux étudiants de plusieurs cursus universitaires et centres de formation (INSA et plusieurs départements de l’Université de Toulouse, France). L’objectif pédagogique visé est d’amener les apprenants à concevoir et réaliser de petits projets de jeux vidéo à message. Les thématiques étant orientées par exemple sur la sen
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Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning
In a video game design teaching course, we chose to replace the creation of entertainment videogames by the creation of Newsgames (i.e. Serious Games about news topics). Thanks to this change, our course seems to be able to enhance the critical thinking skills of students while still teaching them how to design videogames. For example, several students designed different videogames about the same news topic. This project required them to exchange their own opinions and discuss about the news top
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Keywords : newsgame, design, project based learning
The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website
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Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive
An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games The month of November IUM recently played host to none other than renowned researcher and consultant Dr. Julian Alvarez who was presenting a lecture to students on Serious Games and Game Technologies. He talked to students of the course Fundamentals of communication and advertising which is overseen by Professor MN. Jauffret-Cervetti. He mesmerized the students with the technology behind Advergames, Edumarket games and gamificatio
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Keywords : Serious Game, Advergames, Conference, Communication, Gamification
The biography of Kevin Savetz, a computer and video games journalist, who is also a real "geek", in the positive meaning of this word. In this book, he tells us about his childhood and grown-up years, deeply tied to the main technological evolutions of the 80-90's: the rise of personal computing, the birth of video games, the BBS networks, and of course Internet. Born in the beginning of the 70's, Kevin Savetz grew up in company of the Channel F, the Intellivision, the TI 99/4A, the At
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Keywords : kevin savetz, geek, bbs, internet, computer, video game, culture
In the past few years, we have been relying on Newsgames to teach our students the basics of Serious Game Design. Newsgames are a good way to motivate students. First, anyone can have something to say about what is going on in the world. But Newsgames are also small and short games that can be created in very limited time and with very limited skills. Most of out students are not skilled at all in programming, graphics or even game design. But by using tools such as The Games Factory 2, t
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Keywords : newsgames, students projects
You are cast as the famous captain of the concordia ship. Will you escape from your boat before it sinks? And if you manage to escape, will you flee from here alone or with some passengers?
Keywords : serious game, newsgame, concordia