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Analogies between the world of cinema and Serious Games (Blog post)

To understand how Serious Games fit into the videogame landscape, we can draw an analogy with the world of cinema.In the film industry, we primarily find big-budget entertainment films, also known as “block busters”.In the video-game industry, the equivalent would be AAA (triple-A) titles. Next come auteur or independent films. This is where we find the independent games community.As for art films, we identify Arts games such as Jason Rohrer's Passage.Then we come to documentari [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Video game industry, Documentary, Movie industry, Docu-fiction, Art game, Advergame, Audio-visual

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Automatic Extraction of Smart Game Based Learning Design Expertise: An Approach Based on Learning Ontology (Broacasting our studies)

Smart Game Based Learning System (SGBLS) design is a complex area. It requires the intervention of multiple actors with specific skills and expertise. Unfortunately, novice game designers who do not have necessary competency inspired from both educational and video games systems cannot successfully create SGBLS. For that, they have to acquire specific skills and expertise in an efficient and active pedagogical manner. To solve this problem, there are several existing techniques, among them learn [...]

Keywords : Smart Game Based Learning System (SGBLS), Game design

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ArtGame weekend #2 - Jury member (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : art game, contest, jury, creation

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Art and videogames (Lesson)

An introduction to "art games", also featuring some example of art influenced by videogaming culture. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)   

Keywords : art games

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