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An Efficient Game Level Generation in Web-Based Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Despite the growing interest in interactive storytelling techniques, their actual applications to traditional gameplay design remain to be investigated. However, many game designers have expressed concerns about the incorporation of such generative techniques in traditional game titles, mainly because of the lack of control they will have over dynamically generated content. This paper proposes an authoring tool allowing game designers to formalize, visualize, modify, and validate game level solu [...]Keywords : Cultural Heritage , Serious Game, Game Level Design, Gameplay
Serious Games for Health ? ernstzunehmende didaktische Konzepte in der medizinischen Ausbildung? (Broacasting our studies)
There is not a lot of data available yet in which way Serious Games are integrated in medical education. A lot of different opinions and concepts are discussed concerning in which way Serious Games can be effectively integrated in the medical curriculum. In this article we developed criteria for the implementation of Serious Games for Health in the medical education. 29 Serious Games for Health were tested to their applicability for undergraduate medical education. Six games seem to be suitable [...]Keywords : Medical games, Medical education, Health game, Health
Serious Games for Reflective Learning? experiences from the MIRROR project (Broacasting our studies)
This chapter describes some of the work carried out in the MIRROR project, which focuses on reflective learning where adults' motivation to learn and reflect through games is being researched. It briefly introduces the project and the theoretical framework, and then describes the serious game that was created for research in detail. The last part of this chapter focuses on users' evaluations and describes some lessons learned about the importance of guidance and of a de-briefing session, thus hi [...]Keywords : Serious game, Learning
An Environment to Support Collaborative Learning by Modding (Broacasting our studies)
In this paper, we propose an environment to support collaborative modding, as a new way to learn a subject. Modding can be defined as the activity to modify an existing game with dedicated tools. In a constructivist approach, we base our work on the assumption that modding a learning game can help learners to acquire the concepts of the subject concerned. We also think that modding in collaborative settings can help learners both to learn the subject and to learn to collaborate. We first propose [...]Keywords : Modding game, Development kits, Learning game 2.0, Collaborative learning
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Serious Game for Crisis Management: A Multi-agents Integration Architecture (Broacasting our studies)
Crisis management, serious games (SG) are more and more used for training. SG permit to reduce the cost of a such training and saving time, and in general provide a fun way to learn. In this paper we propose to bring together SG and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in the context of the SIMFOR project, a SG for training in crisis management. We discuss the problems and needs of serious games and an overview of existing works. To enhance the learning aspect in SG, we propose the integration of [...]Keywords : Collaborative agent-based architecture, Intelligent tutoring systems, Serious Game, Crisis management training, Multiagent integration architecture, Training cost reduction, Time savings, SIMFOR project
Jogos sérios competitivo-colaborativos: um mapeamento sistemático da literatura (Broacasting our studies)
Many studies support serious games as a tool for motivating and learning improvement. Some work have already evaluated the influence of competition and collaboration aspects on learning using such games but little research has been published regarding the usage of both aspects at the same time. A systematic literature mapping has been done, searching for serious games that have embodied both collaboration and competition in its gameplay. From 742 papers analyzed, 17 of them were selected. The ma [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Learning, Evaluation, Studies
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985 (Book reference)
This autobiography is composed by the personal journal of Jordan Mechner during the creation of his famous game Karateka (1984). The authors tells us about his thoughts, his doubts, his joy, and more specifically about the different steps towards the creation of this popular game. A very interesting read, despite a rather "rough" writing style : this book allows you to literally enter inside the head of Jordan Mechner, a creative genius with a lot more doubts and fears that we cou [...]Keywords : biography, jordan mechner, karateka, artist, creative process
La Révolution PlayStation - Ken Kutaragi (Book reference)
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. It focuses on Ken Kutaragi, the key person in this project, who is today acknowledged as the "father of the Playstation." The author tells us how this visionary engineer lead Sony to tackle the home video game console market, in spite of the vigorous opposition shown by many other people in the company. Each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: the initial inspi [...]Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, ken kutaragi, industry, home console
Quels accompagnements associer au Serious game ? (Broacasting our studies)
This article proposes to identify different types of tutoring to mobilize when one wishes to create a Serious game. Read the article on line (p.186-189) ISBN : 978-2-9813635-1-0 (PDF version) 978-2-9813635-0-3 (printed version) Download the articleKeywords : Serious Game, Tutoring, Learning