This report analyses the different Serious Game markets through a systematic examination of the technologies, the uses made of the games and the different professions involved, with particular focus on the key stages of design, development and distribution. It also explores the outlook for each market segment....
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play
The autobiography of Takahashi Meigin, someone relatively unknown here but known by every gamer in Japan. He spent most of his career as a employee in Hudson Soft, a game development studio who created the "Bomberman" and the "Mario Party" series, among many others popular titles. But Takashi Meijin wasn't a regular employee: instead of designing videogames, he was hired to advertise them. A remarkably skilled videogame player, he was casted as living legend during the NES/Fa
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Keywords : biography, takahashi meijin, hudson soft, japon, nes, pc engine, 16 shot
Free online game factory
Keywords : Game factory
Serious games: behind this oxymore a business hides which goes up in power since the middle of the years 2000. Formation, drive, publicity… The companies obtain new tools directly inspired from video games. Analyzes of the market (p. 86 to 91).
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Market
An introductory book to Game Design. It's written by Marc Albinet, a videogame industry veteran. He shares his global view of the key points to design games : gameplay loops, feedbacks, rewards... While the book is very easy to read and is backed by many examples, it doesn't go into the details of these key points, on purpose: the book, weighting 200 pages "only", is first and foremost suited to beginners. This book will provide them with an excellent door to the world of Game Design,
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Keywords : game design, introduction, general view, simple
Alongside with "The Ultimate History of Videogames" and "La Saga des Jeux vidéo", here is without a doubt the third must-read book for anyone who want to have a global view on the history of videogames. The authors starts from the early games up to nowadays, and tells the story of the most important games and machines thanks to interviews with their creators. The added value of this book compared to the two previous ones is the fact that, in addition to tackling
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Keywords : history, united kindgom, france, europe
Il y a seulement deux ans, ils n'étaient qu'une poignée en France à s'y intéresser. Aujourd'hui, le serious game, le jeu vidéo "sérieux", semble devenir un outil incontournable de communication et de formation. 20 millions d'euros ont été débloqués par le gouvernement pour aider 48 projets. To read the post
Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Video game
This book deals with the rich history of videogames and cinema, and more specifically their relations with American movies. The author details with a high level of precision the various links between the movie and videogame industries, such as the numerous movies-games and games-movies adaptions. But the author doesn't remain at a surface level, he pursues his analysis at a deep level: he studies the evolution of games-movies relations according to the different economical eras of the videogames
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Keywords : cinema, videogames, hollywood, thesis, mario, donkey kong, warner
Les serious games sont encore largement inconnus : 74% des personnes interrogées par le cabinet Vento déclarent à ce jour ne connaître aucune entreprise en proposant. Et pourtant les grands groupes manifestent un intérêt croissant pour cet outil ludique, de communication, de formation ou de recrutement. L'Oréal présélectionnera cette année un tiers de ses stagiaires via le jeu Reveal, quand Renault ou la Sociét&eacut
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Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play
An exploratory approach of the links between "Fun Food" and Serious Games related to food.
Keywords : serious game, fun food