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Joypads ! : Le design des manettes (Book reference)
As the title implies, this book tackles the history of videogames through a quite unique viewpoint: gamepads. This book analyses each and every gamepad released for a home console, from the Atari 2600 controllers to Xbox 360 ones. It is divided in five parts. The first one goes through the early beginnings of game controllers : it analyses the ones created for Spacewar! and Tennis for Two, among others. The second part is dedicated to the evolution of controllers handling, and details how the va [...]Keywords : joypads, history, gamepads, game design
Characterization and Evaluation of Serious Games: A Perspective of Their Use in Higher Education (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Serious games are video games or computer games designed for training or educational purposes. Thanks to the interesting and useful opportunities that they provide such as interactivity, immersion, simulation they become well accepted and well spread among professional and academic fields. However, the selection of the most suitable serious games to a specific educational goal seems to be not well studied in the literature. This paper tries to meet this research gap by developing a new [...]Keywords : Games, Training, Business, Biological system modeling, Educational institutions, Entertainment industry
LE POTENTIEL ÉDUCATIF DES JEUX VIDÉO ET SÉRIEUX: REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE (Broacasting our studies)
This literature review discusses impacts of video games and serious games in terms of educational potential and contributions to education and learning. After defining video games and serious game, authors examine successively the motivational dimensions and developmental effects of these games and their interest in schools and universities. References (1): Alvarez, J., Du jeu video au serious game : approche culturelle, pragmatique et formelle, Thèse de doctorat, Spécial [...]The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985 (Book reference)
This autobiography is composed by the personal journal of Jordan Mechner during the creation of his famous game Karateka (1984). The authors tells us about his thoughts, his doubts, his joy, and more specifically about the different steps towards the creation of this popular game. A very interesting read, despite a rather "rough" writing style : this book allows you to literally enter inside the head of Jordan Mechner, a creative genius with a lot more doubts and fears that we cou [...]Keywords : biography, jordan mechner, karateka, artist, creative process
La Révolution PlayStation - Les hommes de l'ombre (Book reference)
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. Thanks to the interviews of more than twenty people who worked on this project, the author, also a member of the team, invites us to a journey behind the scenes of the creation process of this console. By mixing these various interviews, each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: an awkward beginning when Sony partnered with Nintendo to create a CD-Rom drive for the Super NE [...]Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, men in the shadows, industry, home console
La Révolution PlayStation - Ken Kutaragi (Book reference)
This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. It focuses on Ken Kutaragi, the key person in this project, who is today acknowledged as the "father of the Playstation." The author tells us how this visionary engineer lead Sony to tackle the home video game console market, in spite of the vigorous opposition shown by many other people in the company. Each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: the initial inspi [...]Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, ken kutaragi, industry, home console
(Broacasting our studies)
Journée d’études sur le Serious Game 7 décembre, MSH Paris Nord Labex ICCA (Industries de la Culture et Création Artistique) Résumé Dans le cadre du groupe de recherche sur le Serious Game du Labex Industries culturelles et création artistique (ICCA), cette journée d’études vise à présenter et discuter des approches théoriques et méthodologiques en se penchant &ag [...]Comment évaluer la qualité d?un Learning Game pendant sa conception ? (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT • Learning Games (LG) are educational environments based on a playful approach to learning. Their use has proven to be promising in many domains, but is at present restricted by the time consuming and costly nature of the developing process. In this paper, we propose a grid of quality indicators that can help the conception team evaluate the quality of their LG during the designing process and before it is developed. By doing so, the designers can identify and repair the problems i [...]Keywords : Learning Games, Serious Games, Evaluation, Quality, Cost, Conception, Development
Update: publications and projects (Blog post)
A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster). The second poster details a q [...]Keywords : projects, publications
Les jeux vidéo, ça rend pas idiot (Book reference)
This tiny book (100 pages in a pocket format) is full of wisdom and expert analysis about a delicate topic: are videogames dangerous? In this book, Yann Leroux, a psychologist specialized on this subject, provides us with a excellent synthesis of all the scientific studies that happened about the effects of violent videogames and the addiction to videogames. This synthesis is written in a clear and simple language, and we thus strongly recommend this book to any parent, teacher, politician [...]Keywords : addiction, violence, psychology, simple, parents, reassuring