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Hutnet Island (Our projects)
Help the mayor of Hutnet Island to save is Island from the sunshine. In this Serious Game the player is invited to think about the paper sheet consommation. Publications related to this project Julian Alvarez, Valérie Maffiolo "Etude de l'impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game - 2ème approche" SEE / Revue REE, ISSN 1265-6534, n°4, 2011, p. 75, 2011. Site de la revueKeywords : serious game, ecology
Flee the Skip (Our projects)
Flee the Skip is a multiplayer Serious Game. You need 4 users to play. The game improves your solidarity by stressing you by this way: be able to escape from the skip in 20 minutes. But all the players must flee away. If one of you is left, the game is over. The players control mobile phones. Publications related to this project Julian Alvarez, Valérie Maffiolo "Etude de l'impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game [...]Keywords : serious game, co-operation
Le jeu sérieux : un nouvel horizon pour l'Ecole ? Entretien avec Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)
Le jeu sérieux : un nouvel horizon pour l'Ecole ? Entretien avec Julian Alvarez Par François JarraudDe temps en temps, une thèse déplace la réflexion habituelle sur l'Ecole et lui ouvre une nouvelle fenêtre. C'est le cas de la recherche de Julian Alvarez sur le "jeu sérieux" (serious game). Elevé lui-même dans 3 systèmes éducatifs différents, il a retenu de son éducation suédoise l'id&e [...]Keywords : teaching, serious game
Infra-narrative level of video games: functions and narrative modalities seen as Game and Play "bricks" (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to focus on the “infra-narrative” level of video games, i.e., the elements that lie below or on the bangs of the main narrative. In this formal referential, the question is to apprehend whether gameplay bricks can constitute narrative functions and modalities. This approach refers to the work of Vladimir Propp, who in 1928 identified a set of functions in a corpus of Russian fairy tales.Keywords : Gameplay, Semiotic, Narrative, Narration, Gameplay Bricks, Formal deconstruction, Narrative functions, Storytelling
A serious game approach (Broacasting our studies)
The vocation of a Serious Game is to invite the user to interact with a computer application whose intention is to combine aspects of teaching, learning, communication or information with the playfulness of video games. The aim of such a combination is to give didactic or training content (Serious) an attractive form or setting (Game).Keywords : Serious game, Definition
Play, Game, World : Anatomy of a Videogame (Broacasting our studies)
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to study the nature of videogames. We will focus on videogames rules in order to try to understand the anatomy of a videogame. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for his classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames. We then analyzed these rules diagrams by using the definition of a game drawn by Salen & Zimmerman, which led us to propose a definition for the n [...]Keywords : Rules, Gameplay, Videogames, Typology, Classification
Dungeons & Desktops : The History of Computer Role-Playing Games (Book reference)
This is an heavy-weight (450 pages) book dedicated to the history of computer role-playing games. The purpose of the book isn't to provide information about how the game were made (there is no developer interview here), but to picture a general overview of the role-playing game genre through a detailed presentation of the most influential titles. The book is organized in chronological order. Each chapter focuses on a selection of games coming from a specific era: the pen-and-paper role-playing g [...]Keywords : history, computer, role playing game, rpg, ultima, might & magic, goldbox, mud
Mes enfants sont accros aux jeux vidéo ! (Book reference)
A book addressing the delicate "video game addiction" topic in a clear and thoughtful way. The book is suited to parents of young video game players, and explains the current state of scientific knowledge on this topic: in spite of what some un-rigourous journalists might say, video games are not a "drug", but some players may be in a "excessive playtime" state which they sometimes need help to escape from. To help parents achieve this goal, the book briefly introdu [...]Keywords : video game addiction, parent handbook, simple, practical, testimony
A Gameplay Definition throught Videogame Classification (Broacasting our studies)
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a videogames classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have identified recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames, that we called “Gameplay Bricks”. The combinations of these different bricks should allow us to represent a classification of all videogames in accordance with their rules. In this article, we will study the nature of these bricks, es [...]Keywords : gameplay, classification