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Project ONISEP (Student project)

A serious game that illustrates three different jobs : architect, urban planner, and landscaper. These three professionnal have be asked to create a city on Mars, through this adventure game that features several minigames. 

Keywords : serious game, adventure, architect, urban planner, landscaper

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A classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is to present a classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach. The methodology consisted in indexing a significant number of video games by taking account their elementary “game bricks”. At last all these combinations have been studied in a database called V.E.Ga.S. Access to proceedings

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Game, Play, Morphology

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Apport des technologies multimédias dans le système d'apprentissage en ligne Sphinx (Broacasting our studies)

This paper presents the project of extension of the on-line learning system Sphinx to multimedia capabilities. Sphinx is actually used by the students of the University Laval at Quebec in an artificial intelligence course. This system enables the student to revise during their course and before the exams. The originality of the method rises in collaborative way of working, each student adding comments on the others. This interactivity has reach its boundaries and a new way is arising in order to [...]

Keywords : pédagogie, Video Game, Avatar, Virtual Companion, Serious Game

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Gam.B.A.S. (Our projects)

Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure.   Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1  The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay? Demonstation videos of the two prototypes created (2007):      Publications related to this project Many analysis have yet to be done, [...]

Keywords : game design, game creation software

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Project Based Learning (Our projects)

This learning project intents to raise students awareness on videogame academic research through Project Based Learning (P.B.L.).   The students are involved in our different research project through the design of serious game, talks about history or culture related research or even through the creation of original gameplay principles...   The students are also invited to share their own points of view through collective debates and group projects relying on their personnal thoughts [...]

Keywords : game design, education

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Game Classification (Our projects)

A research project designed to build a classification system suited to videogames. This projet resulted in a website featuring a collaborative classification system based on multiple criterias. The games are classified according to their gameplay, their purposes, their markets and target audience, alongside with user-contributed keywords.     http://www.gameclassification.com     The classification of videogames, a complex problem... The classification of videogame [...]

Keywords : classification, videogames

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Gargas cave (Our projects)

A serious game created the 100th anniversary celebration of the "Gargas caves", a prehistoric site located in France. Famous for its negative wall-paintings of hands and its overlapping engravings of animal figures, part of this cave is unfortunately no longer visitable. Indeed, public access limited to avoid the deterioration (due to lightning and or CO2 rejected by breathing visitors) of its historical treasures.   This virtual version of the caves presents you with a wall roc [...]

Keywords : serious game, prehistory

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A Collaborative Classification of Games & Serious Games (Database) (Broacasting our studies)

Databases dedicated to:  - Videogames : gameclassification.com- Serious Games : serious.gameclassification.com - Game Creation Tools : creatools.gameclassification.com These databases are collaborative and can be enriched by web users. 

Keywords : Database, Serious Games, Video games, Game creation tools

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Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, And Inform (Book reference)

One of the flagship book of the current wave of Serious Games, focused on videogames. This 350 pages book start with a definition of Serious Games, through a comparative analysis with entertainment videogames. It then features a lot of games examples for each of the main Serious Games application domains in 2005: defense, government, corporate, education, healthcare, politics, religion and art.  This book also gives some Serious Games design advices related to each of these domains. This bo [...]

Keywords : serious game, definition, examples

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Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution (Book reference)

This book gives a portrayal of several famous video game creators: Cliff Bleszinski (Unreal Tournament, Gears of War), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda...), Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims...), John Romero and John Carmack, alongside with three bonus chapters dedicated to the first video games, to military Serious Games (America's Army) and to MMORPG players (Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies). Overall, the book is very pleasant to read and filled with interesting information. The portraits of c [...]

Keywords : history, cliff bleszinski, will wright, america's army, star wars galaxies, anarchy online

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