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International Scientific Symposium « Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games » (Blog post)
On May 23rd in Valenciennes, we are organizing a scientific symposium called“Evaluate and Measure the Impact of Serious Games” during the international “evirtuoses” event. This meeting aims at asking questions on approaches,paradigms, experience feedbacks enabling the projection of theoreticalframeworks, methodologies leading to evaluate or measure the impact of SeriousGames, but also to report on collected and analyzed results. Serious Gamesgenerate indeed a [...]Keywords : Impact, Evaluation, Measure, Serious Game, Organized system, Ecosystem, Effectiveness
Generic-SG (Our projects)
Generic-SG is a 2 year R&D project aiming to develop and to evaluate a prototype of online platform dedicated to rapid Serious Games creation for university courses. It emphasizes over a semi-automated creation of games for each given theme, and a low cost of developing a new games for any kind of university course. This project gathers several partners, including development studios and the "teaching technology departments" from all the public French universities. Vid [...]Keywords : university, serious game authoring
The History of Mario - published by Pix N'Love editions (Blog post)
On the french version of this blog , I posted an in-depth critic of a (french-written) book about the history of Mario. Far from being a simple "illustrated books for fans" filled with nostalgia, l'Histoire de Mario by William Audureau and published by Pix N'Love is one on the most interesting books about the genesis of Mario. It's not an history book, it's an analytical book that tries to answer one simple question : "Why Mario?". After all, when Nintendo picked a masc [...]Keywords : mario, history, nintendo, analysis
New students projects added (Blog post)
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 [...]Keywords : newsgames, students projects
Zones Humides Protect (Our projects)
This Serious Games aims to raise general public's awareness on the topic of "Wetlands". The play has to manage a city by expanding industrial activity while maintaining a healthy ecological environment and providing a good quality of water to the city. Will you be able to balance all this contradictory goals? This Serious Games was created in partnership by the company Acceptable Avenir (final client and serious content), the research lab Ecolab (serious content), the co [...]Keywords : wetlands, serious game, ecology, management
Update of the "Our projects" section (Blog post)
We updated the section featuring our projects. Now it gathers about twenty of our projects: creation of videogames (Serious Games, Social Games, Alternate Reality Games, simulators...), creation of 2.0 websites and online databases, and organization of events like game creation contests or Serious Games discovery night parties.Keywords : ludoscience, projects
Welcome to the Ludoscience Blog! (Blog post)
In order to celebrate the third birthday of this website, we decided to upgrade it up with some nice features: This blog. After nearly three years of being a depot for our research articles and our students projets , this website is now featuring a brand new blog! We will try to use it to provide information relative to the study of videogames, Serious Games and to keep up informed about the life in our laboratory. A new "Our Projects" section. The old one weren't updated s [...]Fun house ludus loci and the American home as folly (Broacasting our studies)
ABSRACT While play marks both the cultural and pre-cultural spheres of human existence, the environmental design disciplines have almost exclusively compartmentalized the notions of play and fun into categories of leisure and children’s playgrounds. The rhetorics of environmental design, to date, have ignored, or at best marginalized, the possibility of play outside of recreational and commercial contexts. Still, we have abundant examples of playful architecture and fun places that st [...]Keywords : Design, Architecture, Fun architecture, Game
How to Analyse Therapeutic Games: The Player / Game / Therapy Model (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we present a new model to analyse therapeutic games. The goal of the model is to describe and analyse the relations between the three aspects of a therapeutic game: the player, the game, and the therapy. The model is intended to game designers. It is a tool to improve the communication between health experts and game designers, and to evaluate the game design coherency of therapeutic games. It also helps to analyse existing games to discover relevant features. The model is built w [...]Keywords : Video games, Evaluation, Analysis, Model, Game design, Serious games, Therapeutic
Serious Game Design - Theoretical and technical study of the creation of games aimed to serve serious purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays, videogames are an important part of popular culture. Although videogames are most famous as leisure, the wave of " Serious Games " aims to use them for a wide range of serious purposes: teaching, communication, therapy, professional training, advertising, political propaganda… This thesis focuses on the design of such " Serious Games ". More specifically, we will try to identify means able to ease the creation of Serious Games. To achieve this goal, we will f [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Game Design, creation, game creation toolkits, modding, videogames, constructionnism , pedagogy