Keywords : serious games, pedagogy
This book tells the story of Dungeons & Dragons, a game that gave birth to the "pen and paper role playing" genre, highly popular in the 80's and 90's. The book details the origins of the game, co-designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Anerson in 1974, alongside with the epic tale of TSR, the company created by Gygax to sell this innovative game. The book mix chapters about the history of the game with more personal chapters, where the author remembers his owns role-playing sessions. Whil
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Keywords : dungeons & dragons, gary gygax, dave anerson, tsr, pen-and-paper role playing game, history, greyhawk, blackmoor
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
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Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers
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
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Keywords : Serious game, Play, Research, Ludology, Laboratory
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
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Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning
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
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Keywords : newsgame, design, project based learning
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
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Keywords : Gamification, Personalisation, Memorisation, Help
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
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Keywords : Learning video game, Instructional game design, Evaluation, Iterative design
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
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Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive
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
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