LudoScience

The Serious Game: What Educational Benefits? (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractThis work lies in the educational opportunities of a learning tool: the serious game. The serious game was investigated using an American example: Virtual University.We first highlight the main features of this media, namely that it can be used as: a teaching tool, a means of entertainment, and as a technology of information and communication. It aims for multiple learning objectives, it finds application in many areas and it targets all age groups. Then, we show that learning through th [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Constructivist psychocognitive theories, Intrinsic motivation, Socio-cognitive conflicts, Situated learning

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Zones Humides Protect (Our projects)

This Serious Games aims to raise general public's awareness on the topic of "Wetlands". The play has to manage a city by expanding industrial activity while maintaining a healthy ecological environment and providing a good quality of water to the city. Will you be able to balance all this contradictory goals?   This Serious Games was created in partnership by the company Acceptable Avenir (final client and serious content), the research lab Ecolab (serious content), the co [...]

Keywords : wetlands, serious game, ecology, management

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Update of the "Our projects" section (Blog post)

We updated the section featuring our projects. Now it gathers about twenty of our projects: creation of videogames (Serious Games, Social Games, Alternate Reality Games, simulators...), creation of 2.0 websites and online databases, and organization of events like game creation contests or Serious Games discovery night parties.

Keywords : ludoscience, projects

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Metal Gear Solid : Une oeuvre culte de Hideo Kojima (Book reference)

An analysis book dedicated to the "Metal Gear" game series. This text-only book is divided in two main parts. The first one, which represents about 3/4 of the book pages, begins with a quick presentation of each title in the series (from "Metal Gear" to "Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker"). It then tells you the scenario of the whole series, rewritten as a one-piece story. This story is very interesting, and is greatly rewritten to be as entertaining as any good thril [...]

Keywords : metal gear solid, analysis, story, hideo kojima

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Welcome to the Ludoscience Blog! (Blog post)

In order to celebrate the third birthday of this website, we decided to upgrade it up with some nice features:  This blog. After nearly three years of being a depot for our research articles and our students projets , this website is now featuring a brand new blog! We will try to use it to provide information relative to the study of videogames, Serious Games and to keep up informed about the life in our laboratory. A new "Our Projects" section. The old one weren't updated s [...]

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La croisère s'échoue (Student project)

You are cast as the famous captain of the concordia ship. Will you escape from your boat before it sinks? And if you manage to escape, will you flee from here alone or with some passengers? 

Keywords : serious game, newsgame, concordia

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Pirates VS FBI VS Sharks (Student project)

While you were seeking to download some files from the famous Megaupload website, you realize it has been seized by the FBI. Wanting to rescue your file, you feel obligated to fly to Hong-Kong in order to retrieve your files by yourself... 

Keywords : serious game, newsgame, megaupload

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L'échappée belle (Student project)

You are cast as the captain of the ship Concordia. In order to escape from the boat before it sinks, you'll have to overcome a wide range of obstacles : scared passengers, locked doors... 

Keywords : serious game, newsgame, concordia

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MegaGame (Student project)

You are cast at the head of the MegaUpload website. You can control Kim DotCom and his colleagues in order to try to build a flourishing file sharing website. You can build server all around the world in order to earn money, but be careful not to draw the FBI attention on you... 

Keywords : serious game, newsgame, megaupload

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2012 - The Game (Student project)

According to the Mayas, the world will end in 2012... What a great year to create your sect praising for a way to escape this end of the world. Will you be able to exploit this general fear to earn loads of money? 

Keywords : serious game, newsgame, 2012

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