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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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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

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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 Team

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Documentary - 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

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