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Author(s) : Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel
Editor : Actes du colloque "Games: Design & Research Conference", Volda, Norvège
Date : 2010
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Description

This article focuses on tools that allow amateurs to create or modify videogames. In order to contribute to study the nature of game design, we will analyze games as crafted "artifacts". We will first review five categories of tools that allow creating games, in order to highlight the different "parts" games are made of. We will then use this empirical review to introduce a simple model of the inner structure of games: the ISICO model.

Keywords : game design, tools, game creation toolkit, mods, gaming 2.0

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