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Whosegame - Serious Game creation contest (Our projects)
We took part in the organization of Serious Game creation contest ran by Whosegame, a website owned by Orange. Constestant had to design a videogame dealing whith one of the following topics:Les participants devaient imaginer et réaliser un jeu vidéo traitant d'une des thématiques suivantes : Improving one's knowledge of telecommunications. Being an eco-citizen with the help of telecommunication technologies. - Acting against isolation and exclusion thanks to [...]Keywords : serious game, contest
The classification of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
During this joint talk with Ben Sawyer, we presented a deep look on the classification of Serious Games, and the possible links between videogames-related and serious games-related classification systems. Talk slides (space bar or left / right to navigate) Video recording of the talk (4 parts)Keywords : classification, serious games
Serious Games (Videogame)
Acces to a 3000 Serious Games classifications sorted by authors, years of creation, markets...Keywords : Serious games
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
Le Jardinier Ecolo (Our projects)
A Serious Game released by the builders of an ecological town, called Andromède, in order to raise people awareness about the way to create and manage ecological public gardens. Will you manage to create a nice park while avoiding to waste water? Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Game Design - Considérations théoriques et techniques sur la création de jeux vidéo à vocation utilitaire" Th&e [...]Keywords : serious game, ecology
EFFECTIVENESS OF TEXT REPRESENTATIONS IN THE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF REGIONAL GAME DESIGN TRENDS IN VIDEO GAME REVIEWS (Broacasting our studies)
1 Introduction As one of the fastest growing segments of the global entertainment market (Szalai, 2007), video games have come to represent a wide spectrum of values in terms of expectations and design decisions of the groups involved in their development and publication. Despite a rapidly expanding market, changing demographics and growing global economic importance, regional differences in game designs have yet to be fully explored. The underlying premise of this research is that game com [...]Keywords : Video games, Genre, Game components
The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, the Video Game As Existential Metaphor (Book reference)
A comical book. It's a parody of the videogame strategy guides, dedicated to the greatest "game" of them all: the real life. This book will give you advices to achieve many difficult goals such as "walking" (level: "baby"), "asking a girl out" (level: "teenager") or "finding a job" (level: young grown-up). While it's not the most revolutionary book out there, it's a nice book, with some either funny or deep chapters, and a few excellent [...]Keywords : humor, strategy guide, real life
Les logiciels ludo-éducatifs sont-ils efficaces ? (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : Serious Games, Learning