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A Data Mining attempt over GameClassification (Blog post)
"Data mining" is the science dedicated to the creation of knowledge through the analysis of large quantities of data, such as establishing customers habits by tracking how they use their loyalty cards. A few time ago, we were contacted by a computer science student, Axel RB, who desired to perform such analysis over video games, using the data about 38.000 video games collected on our website GameClassification. Thus, we gave him a dataset, and he just published his first findings on h [...]Keywords : data mining, game classification, research, computer science, video games
Your educational games for Research (Blog post)
Ludoscience is a non profit organization aimed at studying game and its uses. In the context of research and conservation of heritage videogame work, we collect edutainment titles, edugames and other educational games from all eras and all supports.If you have such securities and that they clutter up you... Think about us! :)Please contact us to send your titles.Thanks also to bring the announcement around you... Ludoscience TeamDocumentary - The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers (Blog post)
As the title implies, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers is a documentary about Japanese game developers. Originally, John Szczepaniak, a video game journalist, went to Japan in order to write a book about this topic (still in the works). During this trip he also filmed his interviews and encounters, which gave birth to a 4 hours long video documentary now available on DVD: This documentary follows John Szczepaniak's journey, with video segments featuring different materi [...]Keywords : japan, history, documentary
Creación de Juegos Serios en Unity 3D (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT This thesis addresses the problems of the development of serious games, focusing particularly on bridging the gap between of two separate communities: developers and domain experts, that is, educators. Nowadays, students are used to “consume” a large number of games for different purposes (mainly for leisure), and they are expecting a certain quality level in the games (e.g. media assets, story, effects, etc.) and affecting the attitude of playing the game if it does no [...]Keywords : Educational video games, Serious games, Game design, Human-Computer interaction, Game engine
The history of Microsoft BOA (Blog post)
Almost unknown, BOA is a nice little game for MS-DOS created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. It's an arcade game similar to Snake, besides the fact that you are playing a rat trying to avoid being eaten by the snake! The oddest thing about this game lies in its distribution model: it was solely available through the driver disk of a mouse created by Microsoft, the "Contour Mouse", also known as "Dove Bar." Due to the technological limitations of the era, [...]Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love
Les Briques Gameplay - la classification des jeux vidéo par leur principe ludique (Broacasting our studies)
A conference dedicated to GamePlay bricks and their use to analyse and classify video games. Speakers:Julian Alvarez (Julian.alvarez@univ-lille1.fr)Docteur en Sciences de l’information et de la communication. Responsable du laboratoire consulaire Play Research Lab (PRL) dédié à l’étude du jeu et de ses usages.Plus de 150 Serious Games à son actif pour TF1, Dupuis, Milan, CNRS …Damien Djaouti (damien@ludoscience.com)Maître [...]Keywords : gameplay, bricks, Game design, Classification