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L'intégrale des Jeux Nintendo DS (Book reference)

This bible is dedicated to the Nintendo DS portable console. The first part of the book briefly tells you the story of this console through about 20 pages featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to the presentation of 888 games for the console (the complete list of games released in Europe when this book was written). Each game is presented through a couple of picture alongside with a short text describing it. While it was first intended to be a b [...]

Keywords : history, encyclopedia, nintendo ds

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The classification of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

During this joint talk with Ben Sawyer, we presented a deep look on the classification of Serious Games, and the possible links between videogames-related and serious games-related classification systems.   Talk slides (space bar or left / right to navigate)    Video recording of the talk (4 parts)  

Keywords : classification, serious games

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Serious Game Classification (Our projects)

Spinoff created from Game Classification, this website aims to gather and classify as many Serious Games as possible. Therefore, it relies on a classification model designed for Serious Games, the G/P/S model (Gameplay / Purpose / Scope).   http://serious.gameclassification.com/ Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Olivier Rampnoux "Origins of Serious Games" Minhua Ma, Andrea Oikonomou, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), « Serio [...]

Keywords : serious game, classification

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Serious Games et Gameplay (Broacasting our studies)

This presentation explains the concepts of Serious Game and gameplay bricks. SGSE 2007 - Conférence Julian Alvarez & Damien Djaouti envoyé par lyongame

Keywords : serious game, gameplay

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The A-Z of Cool Computer Games (Book reference)

This book is full of nostalgia, as it details games, machines and other elements of the videogame culture (ads, magazines, etc.) coming from a "golden era" of their history, according to the author: from the end of the 70's to the beginning of the 90's. This book gathers about 200 games and memories from the author, who are described with passion over one or two pages each. As the author is British, he was exposed to the European wave of videogames. This book will thus triggers a lot o [...]

Keywords : history, games, machines, europe, culture

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