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Emmanuel Forsans, pionnier du Serious Gaming (Broacasting our studies)
An interview of Emmanuel Forsans, CEO of AFJV. In the 80's and 90's he designed Retro SG. Pix'n Love n°9 (p. 24 to 29).Keywords : Serious Games, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games, Interview
Serious Games & Cultural Heritage: A case study of prehistoric caves (Broacasting our studies)
The creation and development of multimedia devices destined for the general public pose many questions for designers. In this article we present two multimedia applications – a Serious Play and a Serious Game – which were part of an experiment performed in 2006. This article will present both devices designed specifically for the promotion of a prehistoric heritage site – the Gargas caves – and describe how they were received by the general public. The aim of this task wa [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Cultural Heritage, Prehistory
Comix Zone (Broacasting our studies)
An article about the genesis of Comix Zone (1995), alongside with an interview of its game designer Peter Morawiec.Keywords : history, videogames
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
Rétro SG : Consoles et Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
Article dedicated to Retro Serious Games. Pix'N Love #7 (pages 90 to 97).Keywords : Serious Games, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games
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 revueKeywords : serious game, rating
Taxonomy of Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare (Broacasting our studies)
Since the first days of the Serious Gaming industry, many Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare were released. However, all these games don’t serve the same purpose, nor they target the same audience. This article tries to propose an approach suited to handle the variety of such Serious Games. Starting from general definitions of Serious Games, we will build a taxonomy of Healthcare-related to Serious Games accompanied with several examples.Keywords : Serious Game, Retro Serious Game, Taxonomy, Healthcare, Prevention
Whosegame - Serious Game creation contest (Our projects)
We took part in the organization of Serious Game creation contest ran by Whosegame, a website owned by Orange. Constestant had to design a videogame dealing whith one of the following topics:Les participants devaient imaginer et réaliser un jeu vidéo traitant d'une des thématiques suivantes : Improving one's knowledge of telecommunications. Being an eco-citizen with the help of telecommunication technologies. - Acting against isolation and exclusion thanks to [...]Keywords : serious game, contest
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
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