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Gam.B.A.S. 2.0 (Our projects)

Direct successor of the Gam.B.A.S. project,this new project aimes to build a new software tool able to ease the creation of videogames. To achieve this goal, it relies on the idea of "Gameplay Bricks", in order to allow real-time creation and modification of the rules of the game through an high-level of abstraction.      A short video clip of the only created prototype (2008):    Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Ga [...]

Keywords : game design, game creation software

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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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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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Technocity (Our projects)

Technocity is a serious game released in March 2006, and freely distributed to the 600 high school and college located in the region around Toulouse City (South-West in France). The purpose of this edumarket game is to promote courses related to industrial and technical jobs towards a 15 to 18 years old audience. This title was created for the french ministry of education.     This was a first experiment for the Toulouse section of french ministry of education, who wan [...]

Keywords : serious game

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