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Livres sur les jeux vidéo - la bibliothèque idéale de Ludoscience (Broacasting our studies)
New section: the big list of books about videogames (Blog post)
A new year means a new section to the Ludoscience website! To celebrate 2014, we offer you a new "bibliography" section, dedicated to the books about videogames. This big list already features more than 80 books dealing with various topics: history of videogames, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, videogames studies & analysis... Each book is presented through a personal abstract and opinion, all purely subjective. But please note that we have read [...]Keywords : site update, books, videogames, history, game design, serious games
Ludoscience liste les livres sur les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : book, video game
The One Fork Restaurant - postmortem (Blog post)
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w [...]Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
Shigeru Miyamoto : parcours du "Spielberg des jeux vidéo" (Lesson)
A lesson outlining Shigeru Miyamoto's early career, from his beginning at Nintendo in 1977 to the release of Zelda in 1986.Keywords : shigeru miyamoto, mario, zelda, donkey kong, nintendo
Card Game Jam (Lesson)
Rules of the "Card Game Jam", a small design challenge with a very strong time constraint.Keywords : cards, game jam, game design
The One Fork Restaurant - a new game from the lab! (Blog post)
It also christmas here at Ludoscience, and to celebrate this holiday we are happy to release a new videogame! The game is called "The One Fork Restaurant". It's a tiny game created in 48h for the Ludum Dare 28 competition, on the theme "You Only Get One." The game takes place in a restaurant where many customers are coming to eat, but unfortunately the restaurant has only one fork! So the customers have to share this fork in order to eat their meals, but they aren't rea [...]Keywords : ludum dare 28, you only got one, experimental game
The One Fork Restaurant (Videogame)
A tiny game created in 48h for the Ludum Dare 28 competition, on the theme "You Only Get One." The game takes place in a restaurant where many customers are coming to eat, but unfortunately the restaurant has only one fork! So the customers have to share this fork in order to eat their meals, but they aren't really patient... You move the fork from one customer to another by clicking on them. The patience of each customer (represented by the gauge below them) slowly decreases when [...]Keywords : Ludum Dare 28, LD28, You Only Get One, 48h compo, restaurant
Um jogo sério sobre realidade económica/financeira de Portugal (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: Portugal is at hand with an unprecedented crisis with the government having to take policies, some of them tough measures. Due to the characteristics of some measures and the unaccomplishment of others, people fail to comprehend them and do not believe in its execution. This work tries to bring greater clarity to the situation of the Portuguese economy, through a serious game. The use of serious games in contexts of awareness is increasing, according to which the learning ability [...]Keywords : serious games, learning, knowledge, awareness, population, economics, finances, budget
L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies