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Ralph Baer : Mémoires du père des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

The autobiography of Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video game consoles. Released in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey is one of the starting points of the history of video games. First of all, it's the first video console solely dedicated to games. Moreover, one of its titles, Ping-Pong, was a direct source of inspiration for Atari to create Pong. Through a book featuring many pictures, Ralph Baer details us the process he followed to invent this first console ever. As a natural-born engineer, [...]

Keywords : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, first video game, simon, lawsuit, biography

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Rise of the Videogame Zinesters (Book reference)

This book a call for all amateurs creators around the world to use videogames as means for their personal expression. The authors states that most commercial videogames are guided by market analysis more than creativity, as she concludes that this trend results in locking the expressive potential of videogames. But for Anna Anthropy, an American game designer recognized for its unique creations, there is still some hope left: what the industry can't or don't want to produce, the amateur game des [...]

Keywords : amateur, indie

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Les jeux vidéo comme objet de recherche (Broacasting our studies)

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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La prise de pouvoir des jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : videogames, serious game

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Les 1001 jeux vidéos auxquels il faut avoir joué dans sa vie (Book reference)

This book presents a personal selection by the author of 1001 noteworthy videogames, coming from every period of the videogames history. Each games is introduced by a small text alongside one or several screenshots.This book is a french translation of an English-written book first published in 2010 and titled "1001 video games you must play before you die." This original English version was updated and republished in 2013 under the same title. 

Keywords : encyclopedia, history

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Philosophie des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

An excellent book featuring a deep analysis of the experiences offered to players by videogames. Being at the same time a gamer and a scholar, the author provides us with his very thoughtful and stimulating ideas on this topic. The first three chapters are tackling the issue of defining games, video games, and the relation between games and movies / storytelling. As they are full of concepts and references, these chapters are a bit harder to read than the others. The three following chapters are [...]

Keywords : history, philosophy, sociology, experience, critical, gamification

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Le Jeu vidéo : ce que nous y recherchons (Book reference)

This tiny 100 pages book attempts to tackle a broad question: "Why do people like video games?" The author starts with a quick definition of video games and game genres. He then details the different kind of pleasures video games have to offer: freedom, multiplayer cooperation, immersion, artistic feeling, exploration, and relationship with a virtual pet. While the book is pleasant to read and filled with many relevant examples, the small number of pages prevent the author to fully dev [...]

Keywords : video game, pleasure, freedom, social interaction, immersion

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Créer des jeux vidéo en classe : des outils simples d'accès (Broacasting our studies)

An article introducing a selection of game creation tools for the classroom. To read an abstract

Keywords : game design, game creation tools, school, pedagogy

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Typology of Serious games (Broacasting our studies)

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

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Les jeux vidéos comme objet de recherche (Book reference)

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

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