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La Révolution PlayStation - Ken Kutaragi (Book reference)

This book unveils the story of a very important home console: the Sony PlayStation. It focuses on Ken Kutaragi, the key person in this project, who is today acknowledged as the "father of the Playstation." The author tells us how this visionary engineer lead Sony to tackle the home video game console market, in spite of the vigorous opposition shown by many other people in the company. Each chapter of the book details the different stages of the PlayStation project: the initial inspi [...]

Keywords : playstation, revolution, sony, ken kutaragi, industry, home console

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An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games  The month of November IUM recently played host to none other than renowned researcher and consultant Dr. Julian Alvarez who was presenting a lecture to students on Serious Games and Game Technologies. He talked to students of the course Fundamentals of communication and advertising which is overseen by Professor MN. Jauffret-Cervetti. He mesmerized the students with the technology behind Advergames, Edumarket games and gamificatio [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Advergames, Conference, Communication, Gamification

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Update: publications and projects (Blog post)

A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster).  The second poster details a q [...]

Keywords : projects, publications

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Introducing the Serious Games Mechanics: A Theoretical Framework to Analyse Relationships Between Game and Pedagogical Aspects of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious game, game design, game mechanics, learning mechanics, framework

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TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious game, telescope, professionnal training, virtual world

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Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders: How British Videogames Conquered the World (Book reference)

This books focuses on the history of videogames in Britain, and more specifically on the best-known videogames in history that originates from Britain: Tomb Raider, Grand Theft, Auto, Elite, MUD, Populous, Lemmings, Carmageddon, Runescape, EarthWormJim, etc. This book also details the history of some famous english computers, such as Sinclair's ZX family, the Amstrad computer line, the BBC Micro and its legacy, that includes the ARM processors nowadays embedded in almost any smartphone. Extremel [...]

Keywords : history, videogames, britain, grand theft auto, tomb raider, elite, populous, mud

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Book chapter: Classifying Serious Games with The G/P/S Model (Blog post)

We just uploaded in the list of our publications a book chapter related to the classification of Serious Games. This chapter presents the classification system used on the site http://serious.gameclassification.com/ to classify more than 2600 Serious Games. It was published last year in a book titled Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches, and it's now freely available on our website (draft version).

Keywords : serious games, classification

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Les Serious Games : Une Révolution (Book reference)

An introductory book to the universe of Serious Games, written by an educator working with them on a daily basis in an "after-school" context. The book starts by defining Serious Games and their history, with many examples. The author then explores "why?" Serious Games, again backed by a lot of case studies. The last part of the book gathers a lot of references and resources on the topic, from tools and advices to design your own Serious Games to a list of events and schools [...]

Keywords : serious games, introduction, history, events, schools

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Games History - tome 2 : Histoire du jeu de baston 2D (Book reference)

Games History is a series of magazines in a book-like format (similar to Pix'n Love and IG), with 200 pages dedicated to a defined genre of video games. This second issue is focused on the history of 2D versus fighting games. The book thus retrace the history of popular series such as Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Guilty Gear, Mortal Kombat, Fatal Fury, Darkstalkers, Samurai Shodown, Killer Instinct, alongside with some less known titles like Arcana Hearts or Battle Fantasia. While it's not [...]

Keywords : history, versus fighting, street fighter, mortal kombat, king of fighters, guilty gear, ken bogard

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Ralph Baer : Mémoires du père des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

The autobiography of Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video game consoles. Released in 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey is one of the starting points of the history of video games. First of all, it's the first video console solely dedicated to games. Moreover, one of its titles, Ping-Pong, was a direct source of inspiration for Atari to create Pong. Through a book featuring many pictures, Ralph Baer details us the process he followed to invent this first console ever. As a natural-born engineer, [...]

Keywords : ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, first video game, simon, lawsuit, biography

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