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Puppy's lunch (Student project)

A serious game teaching about healthy meal habits. Listening to advices from Puppy the dog, arrange a meal for your heroin, and watch what effect it will have on its health and life expectancy... 

Keywords : serious game, healthy meals, healthy habits, cartoon

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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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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Book reference)

In this book , James Paul Gee, a researcher in learning sciences, explores the potential of (all) video games for learning. Through an analysis of entertainment video games, he deduces a set of 36 "learning principles" used by video games to teach content or skills to players. This book then details these 36 "learning principles", such as the "multiple routes principle" or the "incremental principle", in order to give ideas to teachers on how to improve th [...]

Keywords : video game, learning principle, serious gaming

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Serious Games et Gameplay (Broacasting our studies)

SGSE 2007 - Conférence Julian Alvarez & Damien Djaouti envoyé par lyongame

Keywords : serious game, gameplay

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From video game to serious game: cultural, pragmatic and formal approaches (Broacasting our studies)

Summary: This thesis is situated on the border of the Computer Science and the Social Sciences. It concerns the conception of Serious Games and their use within the context of targeted learning. By a Serious Game we mean a computer application, whose initial intention is to combine coherently the serious aspects (Serious) in a neither exhaustive nor exclusive manner, with instruction, learning, communication or further on information, assorted with the playing aspect of Video Games (Game). [...]

Keywords : serious game, gameplay, teaching

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Play, Game, World: Anatomy of a videogame (Broacasting our studies)

This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to study the nature of videogames. We will focus on videogames rules in order to try to understand the anatomy of a videogame. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for his classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames. We then analysed these rules diagrams by using the definition of a game drawn by Salen & Zimmerman, which led us to propose a definition for the nature [...]

Keywords : gameplay, rules, Videogames, Typology, Classification

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Classification des serious games (Broacasting our studies)

This article proposes to focus on the various types of Serious Games. Inspired by the video games, we find a great diversity of applications. We propose a classification within Serious Game while differentiating them from simulations for the moment. The question of the link between the initial intention of the game designer and the part played by the implementation of objectives gives us an Ariadne’s thread to be unrolled. The posture adopted by the player particularly in simulations const [...]

Keywords : serious games, classification

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PBL and Serious Games: the reciprocity (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this paper is to find out if theoretical approaches about PBL can be adapted to those of Serious Games. First this paper seeks links and similarities between the PBL and Serious Games approaches. Then it highlights their reciprocity on the pedagogic level.

Keywords : teaching, serious game

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Persuasive Games - The Expressive Power of Videogames (Book reference)

This book is a detailed study of the expressive potential of video games. The author analyses many examples of games broadcasting messages, related to politics, advertising and education. This study allows Ian Bogost, a media researcher and game designer, to introduce the concept of "procedural rhetoric", i.e. the use of games rules to broadcast messages. This book is very brilliant: full of relevant examples, it features an analysis that will undoubtedly inspires any creator or resear [...]

Keywords : serious game, procedural rhetoric, analysis, research, example

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Cultural heritage and scientist and Virtual Universes (Broacasting our studies)

Debate around Serious Games, simulations and virtual devices in the context of cultural heritage, sciences and museums.  Speakers : Benjamin Moréno -Mat3D, Julian Alvarez - Dreampict, Maria Hernandez/ Ariane Genty - Inolam, Pascal Alard - SESTA

Keywords : Serious Games, Sciences, Simulation

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