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« Serious games » : apprendre en jouant ? (Broacasting our studies)
Distance learning technology used at the beginning of 2000s has not gained a wide approval. Recently, the numerous new options rendered possible by NTIC development have not yet been analyzed or interpreted properly and a through indepth study of e-learning is lacking. We distinguish three on-line methods of e-learning. Rapid learning consists on static information publishing which, in best cases, can have knowledge tests or spoken information. To improve this, a training by “scenarios&rdq [...]IG Magazine (Book reference)
IG Magazine is a journal, issued every 2 months, with a format that is half-way between a book and a regular journal. Each issue comes with more than 250 pages dedicated to the current trends, the economy, the culture and the history of videogames. IG magazine was published between March 2009 and July 2013, for a total of 27 regular issues and 10 additional "special issues." It was an excellent journal, the only french journal that was able to talk about current videogames topics while [...]Keywords : journal, news, economy, culture, history, analysis
"Serious games": the video games reach societies (Broacasting our studies)
A Wii near the coffe machine? To play PES in order to animate a meeting? Business stratgies elaborated thanks to Advance Wars? Not at all, we're going to talk about "serious games"...Read the article (french).La Bible PC Engine - volume 1 : les HuCARDs (Book reference)
This bible is dedicated to the PC Engine home console (also known as TurboGrafx 16). This first volume starts by telling you the story of the birth of this console, and also presents all the different models and accessories available. But the main part of the book is a full listing of every game ever released for this console on the HuCARDs format (more that 300 games). Each game is presented with a screenshot alongside with a small text describing it. A reference book for anyone interested by t [...]Keywords : bible, pc engine, turbografx 16, hucards, history
LCI, Plein Ecran of january the 31th of 2009: The video game is serious. (Broacasting our studies)
"This week, it's serious! The Serious Gaming is a new market of the video game industry dedicated to the learning, advertising, political... areas. A world market of 50 billions USD." Journalist :Cédric Ingrand Speakers : Jean-Claude La Rue (SELL), Sébastien Beck (DAESIGN) et Julian Alvarez (Orange Labs/ Ludoscience). PodcastKeywords : Serious Games, LCI, Plein Ecran, Market, Video games, Serious Gaming
Inspiration For The Interactive Generation (Book reference)
Who said that you had to be famous in order to write down your own autobiography? In this book, Mat Dickie, an indie video game creator, tells us about his personal life alongside with the various games he created during his 10 years career. While we can smile at the fact that the oversized ego of this unknown author led him to write such a book, it's a quite interesting book for the videogame history specialists. It tells us the life of a British kid born in the 80's, fan of videogames, who sta [...]Keywords : mat dickie, biography, indie, wrestling, religion
Introduction aux Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
Whosegame - Serious Game creation contest (Our projects)
We took part in the organization of Serious Game creation contest ran by Whosegame, a website owned by Orange. Constestant had to design a videogame dealing whith one of the following topics:Les participants devaient imaginer et réaliser un jeu vidéo traitant d'une des thématiques suivantes : Improving one's knowledge of telecommunications. Being an eco-citizen with the help of telecommunication technologies. - Acting against isolation and exclusion thanks to [...]Keywords : serious game, contest
Eco-Reporter : à la découverte d'Andromède (Our projects)
A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology. Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game. Publication [...]Keywords : serious game, ecology
Le Jardinier Ecolo (Our projects)
A Serious Game released by the builders of an ecological town, called Andromède, in order to raise people awareness about the way to create and manage ecological public gardens. Will you manage to create a nice park while avoiding to waste water? Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Game Design - Considérations théoriques et techniques sur la création de jeux vidéo à vocation utilitaire" Th&e [...]Keywords : serious game, ecology