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Le designer de jeux vidéo comme agent d'évolution à l'ère du jeu casual (Broacasting our studies)
This article aims to demonstrate the importance of video game designers as agent of progress. This work is based on a study whose main purpose is to better define casual games while using the video game designers' professional knowledge. During the course of the study, it became clear that the game design practices have been evolving over time. Due to the scarcity of existing information on the role of designers in the scientific literature, it seemed appropriate to explore this lack. The r [...]Keywords : video game design, design practice, designer role, professional knowledge, instrumental player, casual game
BrainPlay: Serious Game, Serious Learning? (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract: Games are increasingly being used in educational contexts. The view of some game educationists is that games are able to effectively fulfil the requirements of a constructivist learning pedagogy. It is suggested, for example, that games are useful at representing complexity and often possess mechanisms that make learning more effective through mimicking behaviours required for study. This includes such elements as a call to focus, increasing levels of difficulty of skill, repetiti [...]Keywords : Game-based learning, Neuroscience, How to learn, Primary school
VR-based serious game designed for medical ethics training (Broacasting our studies)
Virtual Reality technology is increasingly used for game based learning application, i.e. Digital Serious Games. Simulating reality serious games improve technical skills in different fields and it is often used in medical area. In this research is described “A Day In The HOspital” (ADITHO), a serious game aiming at increase the process of decision making in young physicians through a training that reproduce a realistic clinical situation. In ADITHO the player, from a first person pe [...]Keywords : Digital Serious Game, Medical Ethics, Medical Training, Virtual Reality, Problem Based Learning, Decision Making, Physician-Patient Relationship
The One Fork Restaurant DX released! (Blog post)
The One Fork Restaurant DX takes place in a restaurant where many customers are coming to eat, but unfortunately the restaurant only has a single fork! So the customers have to share it to eat their meals, but they aren't really patient.. Move the fork from one customer to another by clicking on them (or their tables). The patience of each customer (represented by the gauge below them) slowly decreases when they are waiting for the fork. Help them eat their food bowl before they [...]Keywords : the one fork restaurant dx, game, flash, android, casual, ludum dare
UNPACKING DIGITAL GAMEBASED LEARNING The complexities of developing and using educational games (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Digital game-based learning has traditionally been examined from an ‘artefact-centric’ perspective that focuses on understanding how game design and principles of learning are, or can be, intertwined. These types of examinations have resulted in many descriptions of games’ educational potential, which has subsequently led to many types of arguments for why games should be used more extensively in formal education. However, comparatively little research has been do [...]Keywords : Digital game-based learning, Serious game
Der Einsatz von Online Games als Self-Assessment im Recruiting (Broacasting our studies)
Executive SummaryIn the case of bad hires companies are facing high costs. This is especially true for big and well-known companies, as they are receiving lots of applications every year for diverse positions. Hence, these companies have to establish a process in which they can select suitable applicants in an efficient way. In order to achieve this, employees of the HR-department can use different tools and methods. A relatively new method is the use of gamified self-assessment simulations.In t [...]How enterprises play: Towards a taxonomy for enterprise gamification (Broacasting our studies)
Our research into the enterprise gamification domain was designed to investigate the different objectives, purposes, target audiences, game design patterns and technology used in gamified implementations. We found that a formal classification system was not only absent, but that it was essential to provide a baseline for developing and comparing gamification design strategies. To this purpose we identified 304 publicly available case studies of organizations that self-identified as having undert [...]Keywords : Taxonomy, Gamification, Enterprise systems, Classification, Design, Information systems, Strategic management, Serious games
From Videogame to Serious Game: the concept of Serious diverting and Serious Modding (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this presentation is to explain the concept of Serious Gaming and its two sub-categories: serious diverting and serious modding. Concrete examples will illustrate the different approaches. Watch video GameDev Days 2015 Program: http://gamedev.ee/REGISTRATION AND COFFEE09:00 - 10:0009:15 - 10:00VLADIMIR FUNTIKOV (CREATIVE MOBILE)Opening speech10:00 - 10:30 KATRIN SAKS (BALTIC FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOL)Opening speech10:00 - 10:1510:15 LISSA HOLLOWAY-ATTAWAY ( [...]Keywords : Serious Gaming, Serious Game, Serious Diverting, Serious Modding
Our list of 150 video game related books (Blog post)
If you like books and are into video games, then this resource may interest you. Ludoscience is building a big list of books about video games. It currently features more than 150 books dealing with various topics: history of video games, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, video games studies & analysis... Each book is presented through a personal abstract, as we have read each book before adding it to the list :). It gathers books in English or French [...]Keywords : bibliography, videogame, books
Attack of the Screen Scrollers reviewed by Youtubers (Blog post)
Behind the challenge of creating an original game from scratch in 48h, one of the main features of the Ludum Dare competition is the user community: people participating in this competition are able to give a very good feedback on the thousands of games created during the event. But sometimes, the feedback comes from people not participating in the competition, as it happened with Attack of the Screen Scrollers: it was reviewed by a Youtuber called KokoStern in his "Concept Hunt [...]Keywords : attack of the screen scrollers, youtube