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Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects (Book reference)
A scientific book gathering 28 contributions from researchers who are specialized on Serious Games, over 530 pages. The covered topics are wide, ranging from the definition of "Serious Games" to the advantages, limits, and practical use of games for education and social change. An interesting book featuring the work of some recognized researches in the field: James Paul Gee, Henri Jenkins, Yasmin Kafai, Debra Lieberman, Joost Rassens, etc.Keywords : serious game, scientific research
Japan Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers (Book reference)
This book is dedicated to arcade video games in Japan. Each of the 9 chapters of this book is dedicated to a specific kind of arcade game: UFO Catchers (mechanical games where you have to catch objects with a grip), Puriruka (improved photo booths loved by teenagers girls), rhythm games, shoot'em ups, fighting games, games of chance (Pachinko, Mahjong...), dedicated arcade games (for those seeking adrenaline through Taikan games), retrogaming (arcade games from the 80's and 90's still played tod [...]Keywords : arcade, japan, versus fighting, shoot'em up, ufo catcher, rythm game, purikura, players
L'intégrale des Jeux Nintendo DS (Book reference)
This bible is dedicated to the Nintendo DS portable console. The first part of the book briefly tells you the story of this console through about 20 pages featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to the presentation of 888 games for the console (the complete list of games released in Europe when this book was written). Each game is presented through a couple of picture alongside with a short text describing it. While it was first intended to be a b [...]Keywords : history, encyclopedia, nintendo ds
Kaisha / Kompany (Our projects)
Kaisha (a.k.a Kompany) is a Serious Game, available on social networks such as Facebook, that enables students in 8th and 9th grade to discover Corporate life through gameplay! The game helps teenagers learn the essential vocabulary used in the workplace and the principal mechanisms that underlie corporate activity. This project is initiated and coproduced with the French Ministry of Education.Keywords : serious game, job orientation, corporate
IG Magazine (Book reference)
IG Magazine is a journal, issued every 2 months, with a format that is half-way between a book and a regular journal. Each issue comes with more than 250 pages dedicated to the current trends, the economy, the culture and the history of videogames. IG magazine was published between March 2009 and July 2013, for a total of 27 regular issues and 10 additional "special issues." It was an excellent journal, the only french journal that was able to talk about current videogames topics while [...]Keywords : journal, news, economy, culture, history, analysis
La Bible PC Engine - volume 1 : les HuCARDs (Book reference)
This bible is dedicated to the PC Engine home console (also known as TurboGrafx 16). This first volume starts by telling you the story of the birth of this console, and also presents all the different models and accessories available. But the main part of the book is a full listing of every game ever released for this console on the HuCARDs format (more that 300 games). Each game is presented with a screenshot alongside with a small text describing it. A reference book for anyone interested by t [...]Keywords : bible, pc engine, turbografx 16, hucards, history
Inspiration For The Interactive Generation (Book reference)
Who said that you had to be famous in order to write down your own autobiography? In this book, Mat Dickie, an indie video game creator, tells us about his personal life alongside with the various games he created during his 10 years career. While we can smile at the fact that the oversized ego of this unknown author led him to write such a book, it's a quite interesting book for the videogame history specialists. It tells us the life of a British kid born in the 80's, fan of videogames, who sta [...]Keywords : mat dickie, biography, indie, wrestling, religion
The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, the Video Game As Existential Metaphor (Book reference)
A comical book. It's a parody of the videogame strategy guides, dedicated to the greatest "game" of them all: the real life. This book will give you advices to achieve many difficult goals such as "walking" (level: "baby"), "asking a girl out" (level: "teenager") or "finding a job" (level: young grown-up). While it's not the most revolutionary book out there, it's a nice book, with some either funny or deep chapters, and a few excellent [...]Keywords : humor, strategy guide, real life
The Game Inventor's Guidebook (Book reference)
This book is a hands-on guide dedicated to the job of "traditional" games creator: board games, card games, role-playing games... It's divided in 5 sections. The first one gives a tour of this profession through famous games case studies: Trivial Pursuit, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and The Pokemon Trading Card Game. They are accompanied by interviews with a game author (Reiner Knizia) and a publisher (Mike Gray from Hasbro). The second part presents with more details [...]Keywords : game creator, job, traditional games, board games, card games, industry
Challenges for Game Designers (Book reference)
This book offers many practical exercises aiming to improve your Game Design skills. Each of the 21 book chapters is dedicated to one particular topic: game design basis, atom structure of games, puzzles, balancing between skill and luck, serious games, storytelling, multiplayer... After an explanation of the topic, the book chapter presents 5 exercises, focused on "non-digital" game creation, thus allowing to quickly put into practice these concepts. It's a very interesting and unique [...]Keywords : game design, examples, exercices