Abstract : According to the french government, the video game industry has now reached a turnover of 3 billion euros (or 10% of the turnover of the french cultural industry), making it the second European country. This market could reach 3.8 billion by 2014, that is a 27% increase in 3 years. Video game was since always an entertaining technology, not requiring the player a significant interaction or intellectual investment result. Today, video games require more and more players to interac
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Keywords : Video game, State of the art, History, Use, Innovation
INTRODUCTION Les jeux vidéo sont, en apparence, aisément appropriables. Ils constituent un objet culturel porteur de nombreux discours normatifs, souvent très polarisés (les jeux vidéo c’est… beau/rigolo/idiot etc.) Dans les années 1980, les discours de dénonciation étaient dominants, utilisant les mêmes arguments que les critiques antérieures adressées aux médias de masse (télévisi
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AbstractFor lack of a real definition, comparable to the one of which sports were the object, the conventional said games remain an object to the apparently consensual limits, but in reality, particularly vague. This uncertainty is due to a lack of serious questioning of presuppositions found in Huizinga’s and Caillois’s founding definitions. It does not allow an appropriation of games by the social sciences, with the goal of studying the countless terms of their usage. As a remedy,
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Keywords : Game, Definition, Sport, Appropriation
Video games allow complex systems modelling, revealing retroaction loops, replicating self-organization and the emergence of hierarchical organization, functional differentiation and social segregation through multi-level interactions. Recent trends focus on improving modelling tools’ graphic quality and interface attractiveness and on using video games to facilitate urban studies teaching and research. This apparent convergence between simulation and video games is addressed through a sel
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Keywords : Video games, Modelling, Simulation, Models, Representation, Self-organisation, Emergence, Urban studies
Le Serious game est-il un vecteur de développement économique endogène et exogène du territoire ? Quel est le niveau de développement de ce marché émergent ? Est-il porteur d’une croissance structurante pour les entreprises, les citoyens et le territoire ? Dans la mesure où les conditions sont réunies sur un territoire, peut-on réfléchir à la mise en oeuvre d’une stratég
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Keywords : Serious game, Economy, Territory
Chapiter dedicated to Serious games typology in " LES JEUX VIDÉO comme objet de recherche" from Samuel Rufat and Hovig Ter Minassian. Les Jeux Vidéo comme objet de recherche L>P, Questions Théoriques format : 140 x 200, 200 pages 12,50 euros ISBN-10: 2917131063 ISBN-13: 978-2917131060
Keywords : Video games, Serious games, Scientific Research
This scientific book gathers contributions from 12 researchers, coming from different fields, who are studying different sides of videogames: identification of the Game Designer knowledge, using videogames in schools, space in videogames, how to dissect a videogame to analyze it, analysis of MMORPG as social spaces...N.B.: The members of Ludoscience wrote a chapter of this book, about "Serious Games".
Keywords : scientific research, education, sociology, computer science, geography
While video games have become a major cultural practice, we still know little about the diversity of the video game audiences and their practices. Identifying the main issues in the reticularization of the territories in which video game are used, and rising above normative debates on violence and addiction, requires a multidisciplinary approach, at the interface between social and cultural geography, and the sociology of cultural practices. The analysis of video games as spatial systems enable
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Keywords : Cultural practice, Network, Space, Territory, Video game
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(Broacasting our studies)