LudoScience

Lusitania (Student project)

A Serious Game played as an "alternate reality" game. You just arrived in the county of Lusitania, and are seeking for a job. You'll have to browse through numerous company websites in order to identify the ones who are hiring, but also find a who to get in touch with your employeer. Will you find a job before running out of money? 

Keywords : serious game, job

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Une matrice se cache derrière nos jeux d'arcade (Broacasting our studies)

An article about using the GamePlay bricks with arcade games  

Keywords : bricks, gameplay, arcade

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Publicidad in-Game. Los videojuegos como soporte publicitario (Broacasting our studies)

ABSTRACT: Video games have become a prime choice of entertainment not only for young people but also in adults or women. Development Studies advertisers and organizations that mediate between them have discovered the potential of videogames as a medium for marketing communication. Thus, the advergame and the in-game advertising have become a powerful and dynamic medium for communicating ideas, products, services or items in an original manner, which also offers video game development studios an [...]

Keywords : Advertainment, Advergame, In-game advertising, Product placement, Videogames

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Les serious games, c'est pas du jeu ! (Serious games are not games!) (Broacasting our studies)

The point, in 2009, on the " serious games" : objectives of these plays, technology used, graphics, limits, of the examples of plays (p. 54 - 55).

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play

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Player Two (Link)

Webzine dedicated to rétrogaming

Keywords : Retro gaming, Webzine

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Comment se former en jouant aux « serious games » ? (How to learn by playing "Serious Games"?) (Broacasting our studies)

A french article about Serious Games and questions about learning...

Keywords : Serious Games, Learning

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Les Serious Games, leurs évaluations, leurs impacts (Broacasting our studies)

This talk presents the result of a study of the impact of 11 Serious Games onto 121 persons.

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Impact, Message

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Simulation, virtualisation et Serious Games (Lesson)

This PPT presents Serious Game, Rétro Serious Game, Serious Play and Serious Gaming concepts and learning questions.

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Retro Serious Games, Serious Gaming, Learning

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Simulateurs, virtualisation et jeux sérieux (Broacasting our studies)

A talk about defintions of Serious Games, Serious Play, Simulation, Retro Serious Games in order to debate around the game and Pedagogy. PPT of this talk.

Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Gaming, Retro Serious Games, Pedagogy, Simulation, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games, Serious Play

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Level Design: Concept, Theory, and Practice (Book reference)

This book is dedicated to level design, i.e. the design of levels, maps and other "playing spaces" for video games. Written as an introductory book, it first details the basis of level design, before discussing how it can be used to "embody" the mechanisms defined by game rules, to tell a story, or even to spark off emotions in player's mind. An interesting book for beginners discovering this topic.  

Keywords : level design, introduction

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