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Kaisha / Kompany (Our projects)

Kaisha (a.k.a Kompany) is a Serious Game, available on social networks such as Facebook, that enables students in 8th and 9th grade to discover Corporate life through gameplay! The game helps teenagers learn the essential vocabulary used in the workplace and the principal mechanisms that underlie corporate activity. This project is initiated and coproduced with the French Ministry of Education.    

Keywords : serious game, job orientation, corporate

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geDriver (Our projects)

A Serious Game, based on a car simulator, designed to teach how to drive in a ecological way. The player has to drive a car in a city to reach a place in a limited amount of time. The goal of the game is to try to reduce the amount of C02 produced by the car through an "ecological" style of driving: taking the habit to brake "softly", learning how to shift gears, knowing when to turn the engine off...       This project received a grant from the french gover [...]

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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"Serious games": the video games reach societies (Broacasting our studies)

A Wii near the coffe machine? To play PES in order to animate a meeting? Business stratgies elaborated thanks to Advance Wars? Not at all, we're going to talk about "serious games"...Read the article (french).

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LCI, Plein Ecran of january the 31th of 2009: The video game is serious. (Broacasting our studies)

"This week, it's serious! The Serious Gaming is a new market of the video game industry dedicated to the learning, advertising, political... areas. A world market of 50 billions USD."   Journalist :Cédric Ingrand  Speakers : Jean-Claude La Rue (SELL), Sébastien Beck (DAESIGN) et Julian Alvarez (Orange Labs/ Ludoscience).       Podcast

Keywords : Serious Games, LCI, Plein Ecran, Market, Video games, Serious Gaming

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Fiber Zero (Student project)

A fast-paced racing game taking place inside a fiber wire. You play as a data packet, and must make your way from one computer to another while avoiding fiber imperfections. Use either "UDP" and "TCP" communication modes to manage your speed and TTL in order to reach your destination. 

Keywords : serious game, telecommunication, racing

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Fast Drive Communication (Student project)

A satirical game where you play as the CEO of a GSM operator who must run over anti-GSM rioters. 

Keywords : serious game, telecommunication, action

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Serious Games Opinions (Our projects)

A Web 2.0 site dedicated to the evaluation of Serious Games. Visitor can play and rate a selection of Serious Games, and comment these games.   http://www.seriousgamesopinions.org/ Publications related to this projet Julian Alvarez, Valérie Maffiolo "Etude de l'impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game - 3ème approche" SEE / Revue REE, ISSN 1265-6534, n°4, 2011, p. 85, 2011. Site de la revue

Keywords : serious game, rating

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Eco-Reporter : à la découverte d'Andromède (Our projects)

A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology.   Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game.    Publication [...]

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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Le Jardinier Ecolo (Our projects)

A Serious Game released by the builders of an ecological town, called Andromède, in order to raise people awareness about the way to create and manage ecological public gardens.   Will you manage to create a nice park while avoiding to waste water?   Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Game Design - Considérations théoriques et techniques sur la création de jeux vidéo à vocation utilitaire" Th&e [...]

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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EFFECTIVENESS OF TEXT REPRESENTATIONS IN THE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF REGIONAL GAME DESIGN TRENDS IN VIDEO GAME REVIEWS (Broacasting our studies)

1 Introduction As one of the fastest growing segments of the global entertainment market (Szalai, 2007), video games have come to represent a wide spectrum of values in terms of expectations and design decisions of the groups involved in their development and publication. Despite a rapidly expanding market, changing demographics and growing global economic importance, regional differences in game designs have yet to be fully explored. The underlying premise of this research is that game com [...]

Keywords : Video games, Genre, Game components

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