ABSTRACT: Video games have become a prime choice of entertainment not only for young people but also in adults or women. Development Studies advertisers and organizations that mediate between them have discovered the potential of videogames as a medium for marketing communication. Thus, the advergame and the in-game advertising have become a powerful and dynamic medium for communicating ideas, products, services or items in an original manner, which also offers video game development studios an
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Keywords : Advertainment, Advergame, In-game advertising, Product placement, Videogames
The point, in 2009, on the " serious games" : objectives of these plays, technology used, graphics, limits, of the examples of plays (p. 54 - 55).
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play
ROUND TABLE ORGANIZED BY CAFE PEDAGOGIQUEWhile serious games have made inroads into vocational training in France and schools elsewhere, they are still struggling to make inroads into French schools. What's the state of play in France? In which disciplines is it effective? What resistance is there? How can teachers reuse corporate experience?Moderator:François Jarraud, editor-in-chief, Café pédagogiqueSpeakers:Julien LLanas, history and geography teacher,Damian Nolan, CEO of
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Keywords : Serious Games, Pedagogy
A talk about defintions of Serious Games, Serious Play, Simulation, Retro Serious Games in order to debate around the game and Pedagogy. PPT of this talk.
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Gaming, Retro Serious Games, Pedagogy, Simulation, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games, Serious Play
This book aims to deconstruct the "positive discourses about video games", that helped it to be regarded in a less negative way as the time went by. While the topic is very interesting, the extremely small size of this book (96 pages in very small A6 format) prevents him to reach this goal. Instead of a rigorous analysis that such a topic requires, the authors limit themselves to some broad and bold critics (such as the french university being under the order of the video game industry
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Keywords : critic, video game, positive discourse, media
Formation. L’université du Mirail a consacré, le 23 octobre, une journée aux « serious games », une formule qui s’appuie sur les jeux vidéos pour réaliser de la formation. Une niche de marché récemment mise en avant par un appel à projet du ministère de l’économie...
Keywords : Serious Games, Compagny
This book is dedicated to level design, i.e. the design of levels, maps and other "playing spaces" for video games. Written as an introductory book, it first details the basis of level design, before discussing how it can be used to "embody" the mechanisms defined by game rules, to tell a story, or even to spark off emotions in player's mind. An interesting book for beginners discovering this topic.
Keywords : level design, introduction
A book introducing the so-called "game theory", which explains the numerous aspects of this research domain halfway between maths and economy. The author presents different kinds of "games", i.e. problems that allow him to introduce the various components of the game theory: zero-sum games and non zero-sum games, games with rational or irrational players, with or without collaboration, etc. While this book is exhaustive and while the author seems to master this topic, this bo
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Keywords : game theory, introduction, maths, economy, expert