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Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs de Jeux Vidéo 8/16-bits (Book reference)

This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg [...]

Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers

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Le Play Research Lab de Valenciennes présenté par Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

  Le play Research lab est un laboratoire de Recherche & développement (R&d), de la cci grand Hainaut, dédié à la ludologie spécialisé dans l’évaluation de jeux (Serious games, jeux thérapeutiques, edugames, advergames...), d’utilisateurs de jeux (bilan de compétences, diagnostics, expériences...), de projets (cahiers des charges, prototypes de jeux...). • d’écosystèmes co [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Play, Research, Ludology, Laboratory

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Réaliser des Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs ? (Broacasting our studies)

Depuis 2005, nous dispensons des cours sur la conception de jeux vidéo aux étudiants de plusieurs cursus universitaires et centres de formation (INSA et plusieurs départements de l’Université de Toulouse, France). L’objectif pédagogique visé est d’amener les apprenants à concevoir et réaliser de petits projets de jeux vidéo à message. Les thématiques étant orientées par exemple sur la sen [...]

Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning

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La création de Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs : une expérimentation empirique (Broacasting our studies)

In a video game design teaching course, we chose to replace the creation of entertainment videogames by the creation of Newsgames (i.e. Serious Games about news topics). Thanks to this change, our course seems to be able to enhance the critical thinking skills of students while still teaching them how to design videogames. For example, several students designed different videogames about the same news topic. This project required them to exchange their own opinions and discuss about the news top [...]

Keywords : newsgame, design, project based learning

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Vers une ludification personnalisée dans une plateforme d'ancrage mémoriel (Broacasting our studies)

Serious games are becoming increasingly important in Education. Generally, the creation of a serious game must take into account both the gaming aspects and the educational aspects from the beginning of the design. An other approach is increasingly used: gamification. It allows to add fun aspects to an already existing application. In addition, players have different sensitivities regarding the use of some&nb [...]

Keywords : Gamification, Personalisation, Memorisation, Help

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L'évaluation rapide de jeux d'apprentissage : la clef de voûte de l'ingénierie ludo-pédagogique (Instructional Game Design) (Broacasting our studies)

To develop a complex learning game, it is necessary to use an iterative design methodology, since the design task is particularly challenging. Within an ongoing project that uses such a methodology, for each iteration and for each part of the game, four dimensions are analyzed: ludic, epistemic, ergonomic and contextual.  Some questions regarding assessment in this context are raised, especially regarding the balance [...]

Keywords : Learning video game, Instructional game design, Evaluation, Iterative design

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Influence du libre dans l'histoire du jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

A book chapter (in french) about the relations between the "Free Software" philosophy and the history of videogames. The book is an "open-book" (as in "open source"), freely available on its official website.    

Keywords : free software, open source, video games, history

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Jeuxvideo.com : Une odyssée interactive (Book reference)

The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website [...]

Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive

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La Bible Super Nintendo (Book reference)

This bible is dedicated to the Super Nintendo home console (also known as Super Famicom and SNES). The first part of the book tells the history of this console through a quite detailed chapter featuring a lot of pictures. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a list of every game ever released for this console. Each one of the 2000 games is presented through a couple of screenshots alongside with a small description text. The book then details a selection of "coll [...]

Keywords : bible, history, encyclopedia, super nintendo, super famicom, snes

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Games History - tome 3 : Histoire du jeu de course auto (Book reference)

Games History is a series of magazines in a book-like format (similar to Pix'n Love and IG), with 200 pages dedicated to a defined genre of video games. This third issue is focused on the history of racing games on home consoles. The book starts with a brief general history of racing games on arcade cabinets (70-80's) and on 90's home consoles. It then goes into more details about popular series such as Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport, Ridge Racer, Need for Speed, Burnout, Formula One, Colin M [...]

Keywords : history, racing, console, video game, car, images

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