LudoScience

Balloons (Student project)

Destroy all balls, provided that two balls of the same colour will explode when the collide. 

Keywords : free topic

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Battle Dance (Student project)

A dancing battle between Elvis Presley and Mickael Jackson. 

Keywords : free topic

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Catch me if you can see me ! (Student project)

A hide'n seek game, involving two players : the first one is invisible, and the second one must find him. A thrid player can join to help to reveal the position of the invisible player. 

Keywords : free topic, multiplayer

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Hamster Academy (Student project)

A 421 dice game in a hamster singing contest. 

Keywords : 421, casual game

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Bad Weather (Student project)

God is angry, so he decides to play the future of the world in a 421 dice game... 

Keywords : 421

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Gam.B.A.S. (Our projects)

Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure.   Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1  The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay? Demonstation videos of the two prototypes created (2007):      Publications related to this project Many analysis have yet to be done, [...]

Keywords : game design, game creation software

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Project Based Learning (Our projects)

This learning project intents to raise students awareness on videogame academic research through Project Based Learning (P.B.L.).   The students are involved in our different research project through the design of serious game, talks about history or culture related research or even through the creation of original gameplay principles...   The students are also invited to share their own points of view through collective debates and group projects relying on their personnal thoughts [...]

Keywords : game design, education

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Game Classification (Our projects)

A research project designed to build a classification system suited to videogames. This projet resulted in a website featuring a collaborative classification system based on multiple criterias. The games are classified according to their gameplay, their purposes, their markets and target audience, alongside with user-contributed keywords.     http://www.gameclassification.com     The classification of videogames, a complex problem... The classification of videogame [...]

Keywords : classification, videogames

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Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution (Book reference)

This book gives a portrayal of several famous video game creators: Cliff Bleszinski (Unreal Tournament, Gears of War), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda...), Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims...), John Romero and John Carmack, alongside with three bonus chapters dedicated to the first video games, to military Serious Games (America's Army) and to MMORPG players (Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies). Overall, the book is very pleasant to read and filled with interesting information. The portraits of c [...]

Keywords : history, cliff bleszinski, will wright, america's army, star wars galaxies, anarchy online

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Introduction aux enjeux artistiques et culturels des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

This tiny 80 pages book tackles the question of the artistic and cultural potential of video games. The first part of the book quickly reviews the history and classification of video games, using elements from the classical book written by Le Diberder Brothers. In the second part, the author deals with how players regard games. He then draws elements from his personal experience in a "gamer's club" running monthly Lan Parties (networked computer game sessions). Thanks to the interview [...]

Keywords : video game, art, culture, introduction

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