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État de l'art du jeu vidéo : histoire et usages (Broacasting our studies)
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 [...]Keywords : Video game, State of the art, History, Use, Innovation
The great AAA race (Student project)
In order to avoid losing the AAA, the French president will try to raise taxes in order to get money. But this taxes are not very popular, and cannot last very long. So the best solution is to take money where there is money: in the central bank of Europe. But be careful not to get caught by the German prime minister!Keywords : serious game, newsgame, triple A (AAA)
Video games and urban simulation: new tools or new tricks? (Broacasting our studies)
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 [...]Keywords : Video games, Modelling, Simulation, Models, Representation, Self-organisation, Emergence, Urban studies
Do students trained using serious games become better sales representatives? an experiment to study the performance of academic serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This paper analyzes the potential of serious games for professional and pedagogical purposes and learning. To do this, the authors have questioned the efficiency of these games. They present an experiment conducted with 66 students trained in sales that compares a group of players with a group of non-players. The game’s impact on skills was studied from two angles: first from a theoretical point of view (based on the marks obtained in tests), and second from a practical point [...]Keywords : Serious Games, ICT efficiency, Experiment
Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) (Our projects)
The Games And Learning Alliance (GALA) is an European Network of Excellence gathering researchers and industrials from all over Europe involved in the field of Serious Games. GALA aims to shape the scientific community and build a European Virtual Research Centre aimed at gathering, integrating, harmonizing and coordinating research on Serious Games and disseminating knowledge, best practices and tools as a reference point at an international level. The other key focuses of the project are: the [...]Keywords : serious game, europa, research network
Through a Chilly Land between First-Person Shoot-Em-Up and Tourist Blockbuster (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: The new media have brought with them new forms of engagement with history. Jáchym Topol’s most recent novel, which plays with a grotesque war of memorial strategies in the Czech Republic and Belarus, reacts to this challenge with intermedial references, including structural imitation and a computer game. This article describes the textual means of creating an immersive experience that include literary modelling of the narrative strategies on the first-person shooter c [...]Keywords : Transmediality, Fictional immersion, Computer gaming, Culture of memory, Collective memory, Representation of history, Jáchym Topol, Novel
EDoS: An authoring environment for serious games design based on three models (Broacasting our studies)
Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb [...]Keywords : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective
CROSSROAD project (Broacasting our studies)
Disclaimer: The CROSSROAD project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. This document reflects only authors’ views. EC is not liable for any use that may be done of the information contained therein. Executive summary This document is the final version of the Research Roadmap on Governance and Policy Modelling, which lists and describes research themes to be supported by future public funding through Science & Technological Roadmappin [...]Keywords : Roadmap, Grand Challenges, Research Challenges, Model-based Collaborative Governance, Data powered collective intelligence and action, Government Service Utility
Replay : The History of Video Games (Book reference)
Alongside with "The Ultimate History of Videogames" and "La Saga des Jeux vidéo", here is without a doubt the third must-read book for anyone who want to have a global view on the history of videogames. The authors starts from the early games up to nowadays, and tells the story of the most important games and machines thanks to interviews with their creators. The added value of this book compared to the two previous ones is the fact that, in addition to tackling [...]Keywords : history, united kindgom, france, europe