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The history of Carmageddon TV (Blog post)

A few months ago, we told you about the history of Carmageddon, a famous racing game praised for its gameplay and violence. After the first title released in 1997, two sequels were made: Carmageddon II in 1998, and Carmageddon TDR in 2000.  A screenshot of Carmageddon TV before its cancellation In 2003, SCi, publisher of the game series, started the development of a fourth episode. Titled Carmageddon TV, this new episode tries to explore a new direction. The universe is "rebooted" [...]

Keywords : history, video games, carmageddon tv, cancelled project, gameplay

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Introduction aux "Serious Games" (version 4) (Lesson)

A presentation about "Serious Games", i.e. games designed for purposes going beyond entertainment. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)  

Keywords : serious games, introduction, examples, classroom, education

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Exemples de Serious Games pour l'enseignement en SVT (Lesson)

A selection of "Serious Games", i.e. games designed for purposes going beyond entertainment, to teach science, biology and geology. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)  

Keywords : serious games, example, biology, geology, science

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Weapon Regulator - a new game released! (Blog post)

Here is my latest game, created for the Ludum Dare 32 competition (game creation in 48h), under the theme "An Unconventional Weapon".  Weapon Regulator is sending you to a battlefield. Your mission is to seize any unconventional weapon that you'll see. You are neutral, so the soldiers won't hurt you, but beware of the stray bullets!    Use arrow keys / WASD to move.Use Space / Control / Shift to seize a weapon from a soldier (you have to move over the soldier first). &nb [...]

Keywords : ludum dare, experimental gameplay

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Exploring and Upgrading the Educational Business-Game Taxonomy (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractThis article explores existing attempts to design a comprehensive and complex taxonomy framework for an educational business game intended to categorize and evaluate various properties. The identified missing elements in the current proposed taxonomies were used as a starting point for the design of a new category that addresses the game’s educational properties. The content of the proposed taxonomy category is presented and the properties selected are explained with regard to thei [...]

Keywords : Educational business game, Education, Business game, Edugame

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Our list of 150 video game related books (Blog post)

If you like books and are into video games, then this resource may interest you. Ludoscience is building a big list of books about video games. It currently features more than 150 books dealing with various topics: history of video games, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, video games studies & analysis...     Each book is presented through a personal abstract, as we have read each book before adding it to the list :). It gathers books in English or French [...]

Keywords : bibliography, videogame, books

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Gamification in Factory Management Education - A Case Study with Lego Mindstorms (Broacasting our studies)

Research oriented teaching in universities provides opportunities to support the student's desire to explore. A student's learning success can benefit from gamified project work, especially when students face self-guided learning processes in demanding educational activities. Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-game context. Games offer the chance to improve the motivation of students, support group work, train communication skills and introduce the capacity for experime [...]

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Attack of the Screen Scrollers - a new game is released! (Blog post)

Again, I participated in the Ludum Dare 31 competition, where you have to create a game all by yourself in 48h on a given theme. This time, it was "Entire Game on One Screen." The game is called "Attack of the Screen Scrollers". It's a top-down shooter, where you'll have to protect the background image of your single game screen against the deadliest enemy of pixels: scrolling! "Screen Scrollers" will invade the screen border, and force the image to scroll towa [...]

Keywords : ludum dare 31, entire game on one screen, experimental game

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The history of Carmageddon (Blog post)

Carmageddon. A video game known by people even if they never played it, thanks to its scandalous reputation. However, this game is far from solely being the "nasty racing game where you have to crush pedestrians" that many media and politicians wanted to ban. Carmageddon is first and foremost an excellent game, featuring many technological and gameplay innovations that deeply influenced the racing game genre.   We interviewed Neil Barnden, co-founder of Stainless Software gam [...]

Keywords : history, carmageddon, stainless software, violence, scandal, censorship, fun

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Learning Without Knowing: A study of playfulness in educational games (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract The use of tablet computers have increased significantly in numerous parts of society during recent years, and the educational sector is no exception. Use of games in educational situations has intrigued scholars of different disciplines, presenting both favouring and opposing opinions. Whilst the educational effectiveness of the game media is discussed, research done in the area of cognitive development, psychology and pedagogy argue for the importance of play and the positive eff [...]

Keywords : Game design, Educational games for children, Playfulness, Educational games in Sweden

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