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New section: the big list of books about videogames (Blog post)
A new year means a new section to the Ludoscience website! To celebrate 2014, we offer you a new "bibliography" section, dedicated to the books about videogames. This big list already features more than 80 books dealing with various topics: history of videogames, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, videogames studies & analysis... Each book is presented through a personal abstract and opinion, all purely subjective. But please note that we have read [...]Keywords : site update, books, videogames, history, game design, serious games
Ludoscience liste les livres sur les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : book, video game
The One Fork Restaurant - postmortem (Blog post)
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w [...]Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
Sur les traces de Miyamoto - 1952-1986 : de Sonobe à Hyrule (Book reference)
The first part of a non-official biography of Shigeru Miyamoto, famous creator of Mario and Zelda. William Audureau, a keen expert of his works, invites us to a journey through his life, from his childhood to the release of the first Zelda episode in 1986. In the absence of a direct involvement from Miyamoto in the book, the author relies on more than 150 of his interviews published in press, alongside with a trip to Japan. Very easy and pleasant to read, this book manages to go beyond "ins [...]Keywords : biography, shigeru miyamoto, nintendo, mario, zelda
Card Game Jam (Lesson)
Rules of the "Card Game Jam", a small design challenge with a very strong time constraint.Keywords : cards, game jam, game design
An overview of serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Serious games are growing rapidly as a gaming industry as well as a field of academic research. There are many surveys in the field of digital serious games; however, most surveys are specific to a particular area such as education or health. So far, there has been little work done to survey digital serious games in general, which is the main goal of this paper. Hence, we discuss relevant work on serious games in different application areas including education, well-being, advertisement, cultura [...]Mapping and Analysing Prospective learning for technologies: Results from a consultation with European stakeholders and roadmaps for policy action (Broacasting our studies)
The Europe 2020 strategy acknowledges that a fundamental transformation of education and training is needed to address the new skills and competences that will be required if Europe is to remain competitive, overcome the current economic crisis and grasp new opportunities. Innovating in education and training is a key priority in several flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy, in particular the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, Youth on the Move, the Digital Agenda, and the Innovation Un [...]Keywords : Learning, Serious Game, Game
LawVille: a Collaborative Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Nowadays Serious Games (SGs) are becoming more and more popular and establish themself as an important research field of e-learning. Since the first multimedia SGs developed for US Army in 2002 (www.americasarmy.com), videogames have been increasingly... References (1): Djaouti D., Alvarez J., Jessel J., Rampnoux O. (2011). “Origins of serious games,” in Serious Games and Edutainment Applications, eds Ma M., Oikonomou A., Jain L. C., editors. (New Y [...]Keywords : Serious game
THE SERIOUS GAMES FOR LEARNING THE CHALLENGE OF A STANDARD MAINTENANCE AND COMPETITIVE GAMEPLAY AND DESIGN (Broacasting our studies)
Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&ia [...]Keywords : Video games, Learning, Values
Etude des déterminants psychologiques de la persistance dans l'usage d'un jeu sérieux : évaluation de l'environnement optimal d'apprentissage avec Mec (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to show the relevance of motivational key concepts in evaluating the use of serious game. Thisresearch involves115studentstrainingwith Mecagenius® (serious game in mechanical engineering). The results of theexploratorystudy also confirmthe relevance of theuseof flow in Education scale (EduFlow) to evaluatethe optimallearning experiencewitha serious game. It also appearsthatEduFlowisrelated tospecific actions within the school context such as self-efficacy, motivatio [...]Keywords : Serious game, Flow, Self-efficacy, Interest, Motivational climate