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JEUX VIDÉO : les Serious Games ont le vent en poupe (Video games: the Serious games are going on) (Broacasting our studies)

Il y a seulement deux ans, ils n'étaient qu'une poignée en France à s'y intéresser. Aujourd'hui, le serious game, le jeu vidéo "sérieux", semble devenir un outil incontournable de communication et de formation. 20 millions d'euros ont été débloqués par le gouvernement pour aider 48 projets. To read the post

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Video game

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Le marché florissant des serious games (Broacasting our studies)

Les serious games sont encore largement inconnus : 74% des personnes interrogées par le cabinet Vento déclarent à ce jour ne connaître aucune entreprise en proposant. Et pourtant les grands groupes manifestent un intérêt croissant pour cet outil ludique, de communication, de formation ou de recrutement. L'Oréal présélectionnera cette année un tiers de ses stagiaires via le jeu Reveal, quand Renault ou la Sociét&eacut [...]

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play

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Les jeux sérieux entrent à l'école (The Serious games are coming at school) (Broacasting our studies)

  Video games have teaching virtues. The companies have discovered it and have adopted them for their formations. Here the turn of school. Some pioneers introduce them into their classes (p.59).

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, School, Pedagogy

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Les Chroniques de Player One (Book reference)

This books tells the history of Player One, a French magazine dedicated to home videogames and manga, alongside with its various spin-offs such as Nintendo Player, Ultra Player, Manga Player and Player Station. Thanks to the interviews with most of the journalists who wrote for it, this 300 pages books gathers a lot of unique information. It starts with an introduction detailing the arrival of Manga and Anime in France, a context in which a company called Média Système Edition firs [...]

Keywords : player one, history, france, press, manga

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L'entreprise prend les jeux vidéos très au sérieux (Broacasting our studies)

Formation. L’université du Mirail a consacré, le 23 octobre, une journée aux « serious games », une formule qui s’appuie sur les jeux vidéos pour réaliser de la formation. Une niche de marché récemment mise en avant par un appel à projet du ministère de l’économie...

Keywords : Serious Games, Compagny

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L'Histoire de Nintendo - volume 2 : 1980-1991 (Book reference)

Over a series of 7 books, Florent Gorges wrote the most complete history of Nintendo. The texts are easy to read and full of unique information, and are illustrated with many pictures of all the games and toys created by the company. This second book in the series is focused on the "Game & Watch", a series of portable electronic games that all kids over the worlds used to enjoy. An absolute must-read book.This book was translated into English in 2012 under the title "The Hi [...]

Keywords : history, nintendo, game & watch

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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

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« Serious games » : apprendre en jouant ? (Broacasting our studies)

Distance learning technology used at the beginning of 2000s has not gained a wide approval. Recently, the numerous new options rendered possible by NTIC development have not yet been analyzed or interpreted properly and a through indepth study of e-learning is lacking. We distinguish three on-line methods of e-learning. Rapid learning consists on static information publishing which, in best cases, can have knowledge tests or spoken information. To improve this, a training by “scenarios&rdq [...]

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Eco-Reporter : à la découverte d'Andromède (Our projects)

A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology.   Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game.    Publication [...]

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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Deconstruct video games? Ways to build a coherent game library offering (Broacasting our studies)

Presentation of the workshop: The idea of video game ratings is far from new. There are many and varied “free classification” systems used by the video game industry, the trade press or simply by gamers. However, while these systems are an important part of common video game culture, they are unfortunately not suitable for cataloguing or classifying all existing video games.Indeed, these so-called “free” systems follow the course of video game evolution: categories a [...]

Keywords : Classification, Videogame, Game library, Deconstruction, Structuralism, Gameplay bricks, Taxonomy, Formal system

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