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Gunpei Yokoi : Vie et philosophie du dieu des jouets Nintendo (Book reference)

The biography of Gunpei Yokoi, one of the most creative employee Nintendo ever had. He is the creator of the Game & Watch, the Gameboy and the Virtual Boy, among others popular toys. This book is an excellent companion to the book series about the history of Nintendo, and offers many details about each creation of this little known genius. Besides the games and toys, this book also deals with the man itself, and more specificially with his famous "lateral thinking for old technologies&q [...]

Keywords : gunpei yokoi, nintendo, biography, gameboy, game & watch, virtual boy, wonderswan

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Michel Ancel : Biographie d'un créateur de jeux vidéo français (Book reference)

The biography of Michel Ancel, a french game designer, who is famous for creating the "Rayman" and "Raving Rabbids" series. This book details the creations of this famous game designer, by presenting the main steps of his career: the childhood of Michel Ancel, his first professionnal videogames, Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil, King Kong, Raving Rabbids, and Rayman Origins. Each chapter features an interview of someone who worked with Michel Ancel or who is part of his private [...]

Keywords : biography, michel ancel, rayman, king kong, raving rabbids, beyond good & evil

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EDoS: An authoring environment for serious games design based on three models (Broacasting our studies)

Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb [...]

Keywords : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective

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CROSSROAD project (Broacasting our studies)

Disclaimer: The CROSSROAD project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. This document reflects only authors’ views. EC is not liable for any use that may be done of the information contained therein. Executive summary This document is the final version of the Research Roadmap on Governance and Policy Modelling, which lists and describes research themes to be supported by future public funding through Science & Technological Roadmappin [...]

Keywords : Roadmap, Grand Challenges, Research Challenges, Model-based Collaborative Governance, Data powered collective intelligence and action, Government Service Utility

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Pour comprendre les serious games: bien les nommer, bien les classer (Broacasting our studies)

An article about the classification of Serious Games

Keywords : serious game, classification, gps

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Le Serious Game comme outil de communication locale : 2 jeux pour découvrir Andromède (Broacasting our studies)

A presentation of our serious game created for the urban district "Andromède", located near Toulouse.  This example shows how Serious Games can be used to communicate by local public organisations.

Keywords : serious game, ecology, local organisation

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Introduction au Serious game (Book reference)

This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: designer [...]

Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples

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Mahjian (Our projects)

Mahjian is an "Alternate Reality Game" who took place during 6 month (from january to june 2011) in the city of Blagnac, France. Proposing puzzles to solve on Internet mixed with real-life treasure hunts throughout the city, alongside with a giant game-show as a closing event, this game was designed to promote the cultural activities of Blagnac city.  While we were working for the game libraray of the Odyssud cultural center, we got involved in the geensis of this game, an [...]

Keywords : serious game, alternate reality game

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Introduction au Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)

A book about Serious game. Download the PDF book (2e edition 2012) 

Keywords : Serious games

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Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design (Book reference)

Through a book of over 500 pages, game designer Scott Rogers shares his professional experience of creating videogames. This industry veteran has worked on games such as God of War, Darksiders and the Maximo series, among others. This book deals with the various steps and key-points of the game design process: ideas, scenario, writing a Game Design Document, characters, camera, controls, user interface, level design, game mechanics, enemies... The main strength of this book lies in the way the a [...]

Keywords : game design, example, game design document, maximo, drawing

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