Keywords : classification, videogame, game library, symposium
An excellent book about the design of games written by Jesse Schell, a game designer who worked on Disneyland attractions and on the kids MMO Toontown Online, among others. With over 500 book pages, the author details the different aspects of the professional game design process, and explain how a game designer can influence them: game design documents, mechanics, interface, characters, the "client" funding the game, player's emotions, the game designer's artistic motivation... Besides
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Keywords : game design, examples, in-depth, jesse schell, disney
French center of Multimedia Ressources dedicated to learning
Keywords : blog, Serious Games
Fitness, lutte contre la maladie d'Alzheimer, formation continue..., les jeux vidéo trouvent de nouveaux publics. Désormais, les jeux vidéo servent aussi à garder la forme. En commercialisant en avril dernier le jeu Wii-fit, pour faire des exercices physiques devant son téléviseur, Nintendo s'est attaqué à un marché très porteur: celui de la santé. "Ce jeu combine la demande d'interactivité du public a
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Presentation of the revue Par rapport aux enjeux concernant les objets numériques de l'univers des jeunes, notre parti-pris habituel, notre réflexe, est d'abord d'avoir une approche souvent exclusive d'éducateur, et ce, non sans raisons. L'intérêt de cet article, à partir de l'exemple des serious games, est de vouloir situer ces enjeux, des points de vue à la fois du concepteur marketing de "produits à consommer" et de l
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Keywords : serious game, e-learning, edugaming, advergaming, edumarket game, serious gaming, advergame, edugame
Flee the Skip is a multiplayer Serious Game. You need 4 users to play. The game improves your solidarity by stressing you by this way: be able to escape from the skip in 20 minutes. But all the players must flee away. If one of you is left, the game is over. The players control mobile phones. Publications related to this project Julian Alvarez, Valérie Maffiolo "Etude de l'impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game
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Keywords : serious game, co-operation
A book addressing the delicate "video game addiction" topic in a clear and thoughtful way. The book is suited to parents of young video game players, and explains the current state of scientific knowledge on this topic: in spite of what some un-rigourous journalists might say, video games are not a "drug", but some players may be in a "excessive playtime" state which they sometimes need help to escape from. To help parents achieve this goal, the book briefly introdu
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Keywords : video game addiction, parent handbook, simple, practical, testimony
An introduction to "art games", also featuring some example of art influenced by videogaming culture. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)
Keywords : art games
Spinoff created from Game Classification, this website aims to gather and classify as many Serious Games as possible. Therefore, it relies on a classification model designed for Serious Games, the G/P/S model (Gameplay / Purpose / Scope). http://serious.gameclassification.com/ Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Olivier Rampnoux "Origins of Serious Games" Minhua Ma, Andrea Oikonomou, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), « Serio
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Keywords : serious game, classification