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LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays Serious Games (SGs) are becoming more and more popular and establish themself as an important research field of e-learning. Since the first multimedia SGs developed for US Army in 2002 (www.americasarmy.com), videogames have been increasingly... References (1): Djaouti D., Alvarez J., Jessel J., Rampnoux O. (2011). “Origins of serious games,” in Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, eds Ma M., Oikonomou A., Jain L. C., editors. (New Y [...]Keywords : Serious game
THE SERIOUS GAMES FOR LEARNING THE CHALLENGE OF A STANDARD MAINTENANCE AND COMPETITIVE GAMEPLAY AND DESIGN (Broacasting our studies)
Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&ia [...]Keywords : Video games, Learning, Values
Design Thinking como metodologia alternativa para o desenvolvimento de jogos sérios (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Use of Design Thinking methodology is becoming common in business, services and products creation, particularlyin interactive media generation. This methodology consists in dividing development process into a number of regular steps: problem definition, target audience, brainstorming, prototyping, solution selection and implementation. The aim of this paper is to present the use of Design Thinking properly adapted to the creation of serious games, indicating advantages and disadvan [...]Keywords : Design thinking, Games, Business administration, Serious games
Learning cultural heritage by serious games (Broacasting our studies)
a b s t r a c t Immersive technologies such as virtual environments and augmented reality have a clear potential to support the experiencing of cultural heritage by the large public, complementing the current tools and practices based on tangible goods such as museums, exhibitions, books and visual content. Serious games – videogames designed for educational objectives – appear as a new tool to learn cultural content in an engaging way. In this paper, we will provide an extensiv [...]Keywords : Cultural heritage, Serious Game
Les métiers des jeux vidéo et de l'animation (Book reference)
This book is a guide presenting the professional side of the videogames universe in a simple but complete way. It's divided in 4 parts. The first one presents the "day-to-day reality", by answering questions like "how do we create videogames?", "do we spent the day playing games?" or "can we became rich?", etc. The second part dissects the different jobs related to videogames, and explains their role and the kind of skills they require: game designer, scen [...]Keywords : jobs, training courses, video games, industry, company, guide, student
New lessons materials (Blog post)
While this will be of little use if you can't read french, I just uploaded 5 new lessons materials on the website: An overall presentation of the history of videogames (from 1952 to 2013).A presentation of the various jobs related to videogames (from AAA game designers to indies or journalist).An updated version of our presentation of the Game Design theories.An updated version of our presentation about the structure of games (i.e. what is gameplay?).An introduction to Serious Games, to [...]Keywords : lessons materials
L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies
Moreia featured on IndieGames and new highscore! (Blog post)
Our game Moreia just got featured on IndieGames! For his article, the journalist got in touch with the author of game Moreia is paying tribute to: MS Boa, created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. This game was originally created to promote a new mouse model released by Microsoft. Therefore, although being a freeware, MS Boa was solely distributed through the driver disks of this mouse! Here is a picture of this little know game: By the way, as we speak about Moreia, the act [...]Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa
Call for Papers: JCAL Special Issue on 'Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and Courses' (Blog post)
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on Learning Analytics in Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments and CoursesThere has been much interest of late in ‘big data’ and the role it can play in decision making in diverse areas of business, science and entertainment. By employing a combination of modern artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics techniques, extremely large and complex data sets can be &lsquo [...]Keywords : call for papers, journal
Tu le crois ça ? (Book reference)
The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's [...]Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt