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Can "Gaming 2.0" Help Design "Serious Games"? A Comparative Study (Broacasting our studies)
The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog [...]Keywords : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content
Serious Games : Formation & Enseignement - Santé - Défense & Sécurité - Information & Communication (Broacasting our studies)
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
Serious Games: Training & Teaching - Healthcare - Defence & security - Information & Communication (2nd ed.) (Broacasting our studies)
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
From "Mods" to "Gaming 2.0": an overview of tools to ease the game design process (Broacasting our studies)
This article focuses on tools that allow amateurs to create or modify videogames. In order to contribute to study the nature of game design, we will analyze games as crafted "artifacts". We will first review five categories of tools that allow creating games, in order to highlight the different "parts" games are made of. We will then use this empirical review to introduce a simple model of the inner structure of games: the ISICO model.Keywords : game design, tools, game creation toolkit, mods, gaming 2.0
Serious Game : révolution pédagogique (Book reference)
A book about Serious Games, written by the two heads of a company who is one of the french leader in this area, KTM Advance. This book offers a captivating real-life feedback from people working in the Serious Games industry, and who share with us some cases studies and detail the design methodology they use in their company. A rare and very interesting testimony that should be more than relevant for anyone working professionally on Serious Games.Keywords : serious game, entreprise, ktm advance, design methodology
Les pionniers du jeu vidéo : Spacewar! (Broacasting our studies)
An article on the history of the pionner videogames invented at the MIT between 1959 and 1962: Mouse in a Maze, Tic-Tac-Toe, Qubic, PDP-1 Chess and Spacewar!Keywords : history, pionner, mit, videogames
Les pionniers du jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
An article about the first videogames from 1947 to 1958: the CRT Amusement Device, the NIMrod, OXO, HutSpiel and Tennis for Two.Keywords : history, pioneers, videogames
Imagination and virtual environment: an approach to the notion of immersion in the context of Serious Gaming (Broacasting our studies)
The sensation of immersion can play a significant role in improving an individual's concentration when carrying out a given task. The virtual environments used by Serious Games need to be immersive in order to provide the best possible utilitarian dimension. The latter offers two overriding orientations: spreading a message and enabling training in a given field. The aim of this paper is to present how a sense of immersion can be created in users of serious gaming. The chosen approach is to expl [...]Keywords : Imaginary, VR, Virtual Reality, Serious Game, Immersion, Story, Scenario
There is a matrix behind our arcade games (Broacasting our studies)
An article about using the GamePlay bricks with arcade gamesKeywords : bricks, gameplay, arcade, Deconstruction, Structuralism, Formal
Evaluation of the impact of Serious Games in the context of Customer Relations (Broacasting our studies)
Post-doctoral thesis carried out from June 9, 2008 to September 8, 2009 at Orange Labs / France Télécom.The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of Serious Games (SG) on the general public and on employees of the France Telecom group. The overall approach is written within the framework of Customer Relationship (CR), which is orchestrated by OR Tools for Customer Relationship. The main challenges are to- To help optimize customer relationship management with the aim of obtai [...]Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Impact, Customer Relationship