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New World Note (Link)

Blog dedicated to Virtual Worlds. The webmaster is James WAGNER, author of "The making of second life".

Keywords : Blog, Virtual World

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Entretien en terre de Fangh (Student project)

A game who cast you as young human seeking for a job in fantasy world. Will you be able to produce a CV that will get you a job as "Dungeon Master"? Or will you lack some requiered skills for this job such as "melee weapon handling"? 

Keywords : serious game, job

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La théorie des jeux (Book reference)

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 [...]

Keywords : game theory, introduction, maths, economy, expert

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Manimal (Student project)

An adventure/survival game concept. The player has the ability to transform himself in several animals. The player will have understand and master his power, while keeping quiet enough to seems a normal human being. (gameplay concept) 

Keywords : free topic, adventure

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Narration et Interaction : relations en milieu vidéoludique (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : interactive storytelling, classification, gameplay, rules

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Masters of Doom (Book reference)

This book tells the story of id Software, the company that created the game "Doom". It mainly focuses on the life of the two key people of the studio, John Romero and John Carmack, from their first experience with videogames during their youth to their split-up after the massive success of "Quake". It also goes through the numerous hits that they created throughout their careers: "Commander Keen", "Wolfenstein 3D" and of course "Doom". Full of un [...]

Keywords : id software, john carmack, john romero, doom, wolfentstein 3d, commander keen, quake, shareware

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Book reference)

This book is dedicated to the history of computing, but deals with the history of computer and video games too. The main topic is the birth and legacy of the "Hacker" movement: a group of talented youth people who initiated a drive for computers to be a tool available and useful to everyone. During the dawn of the 60's, in the U.S., at the famous MIT university, a group of students changed the very idea of "computing" by using one of their university's computer to create all [...]

Keywords : hackers, MIT, spacewar!, apple II, steve wozniak, sierra on line, ken and roberta williams, homebrew computer club

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Game Over - Press Start To Continue (Book reference)

This book tells us the history of Nintendo, and more specifically how it conquered the US video game market in the 80's. This book details the first steps of Nintendo in the field of video games, both in Japan and in the US. It explores arcade hits like Donkey Kong, alongside with the NES and its most popular games series such as Mario and Zelda. The form of the book is brilliant: it's written like a captivating novel. But the main point is the substance: this book is literally filled with a lot [...]

Keywords : nintendo, history, hiroshi yamauchi, japan, usa, mario, minoru arakawa, shigeru miyamoto

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Game Over - Arcade Edition (Book reference)

This book tells us the history of Nintendo, and more specifically how it conquered the US video game market in the 80's. This book details the first steps of Nintendo in the field of video games, both in Japan and in the US. It explores arcade hits like Donkey Kong, alongside with the NES and its most popular games series such as Mario and Zelda. The form of the book is brilliant: it's written like a captivating novel. But the main point is the substance: this book is literally filled with [...]

Keywords : nintendo, history, hiroshi yamauchi, japan, usa, mario, minoru arakawa, shigeru miyamoto

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Minds in Play (Book reference)

This book describes a pioneering scientific experiment conducted by Yasmin Kafai in the Serious Games field. In 1994, for 6 months during 1 hour per day, she asked 4th grade students to design video games explaining the mathematical concept of "fraction" to 3rd graders. To create these games, the kids used the LOGO language they learned during the workshop. Through this experiment, the researcher observed that designing video games about "fractions" helped kids to master this [...]

Keywords : serious game, constructionnisme, logo, scientific research

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