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Book chapter: Origins of Serious Games (Blog post)
We wrote an article about the historical origins of "Serious Games", which get published by Springer in the book "Serious Games and Edutainment Applications" a few months ago. We first review the historical definitions of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We then explore the history of videogames in search of the first "Serious Games", that actually appeared before the first entertainment videogames... This book gathers several scientific articles ded [...]Keywords : serious games, history
Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto (Book reference)
This book details the captivating story of the scandalous game series "Grand Theft Auto". Over 300 pages, the author tells us about the most epic moments of this saga: humble beginnings as a small arcade game made in Scotland by DMA Design; hiring Max Clifford to use media scandal as a marketing campaign; the hijacking of the series leadership by the Houser brothers and their studio Rockstar during the creation of GTA III; the first legal actions against the game series and the ri [...]Keywords : grand theft auto, history, dma design, rockstar, jack thompson, sam houser, david jones, esrb
New students projects added (Blog post)
In the past few years, we have been relying on Newsgames to teach our students the basics of Serious Game Design. Newsgames are a good way to motivate students. First, anyone can have something to say about what is going on in the world. But Newsgames are also small and short games that can be created in very limited time and with very limited skills. Most of out students are not skilled at all in programming, graphics or even game design. But by using tools such as The Games Factory 2, t [...]Keywords : newsgames, students projects
Welcome to the Ludoscience Blog! (Blog post)
In order to celebrate the third birthday of this website, we decided to upgrade it up with some nice features: This blog. After nearly three years of being a depot for our research articles and our students projets , this website is now featuring a brand new blog! We will try to use it to provide information relative to the study of videogames, Serious Games and to keep up informed about the life in our laboratory. A new "Our Projects" section. The old one weren't updated s [...]Fun house ludus loci and the American home as folly (Broacasting our studies)
ABSRACT While play marks both the cultural and pre-cultural spheres of human existence, the environmental design disciplines have almost exclusively compartmentalized the notions of play and fun into categories of leisure and children’s playgrounds. The rhetorics of environmental design, to date, have ignored, or at best marginalized, the possibility of play outside of recreational and commercial contexts. Still, we have abundant examples of playful architecture and fun places that st [...]Keywords : Design, Architecture, Fun architecture, Game
Replay : The History of Video Games (Book reference)
Alongside with "The Ultimate History of Videogames" and "La Saga des Jeux vidéo", here is without a doubt the third must-read book for anyone who want to have a global view on the history of videogames. The authors starts from the early games up to nowadays, and tells the story of the most important games and machines thanks to interviews with their creators. The added value of this book compared to the two previous ones is the fact that, in addition to tackling [...]Keywords : history, united kindgom, france, europe
Some simple game design tools (Lesson)
This presentation compares several easy to use tools suited to create videogames. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)Keywords : game design, tools, creation, easy
Designing a game - a simple methodology (Lesson)
Introduction to a simple methodology (3 steps) to design videogames. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)Keywords : game design, methodology, simple
Simulateurs, virtualisation et jeux sérieux (Broacasting our studies)
A talk about defintions of Serious Games, Serious Play, Simulation, Retro Serious Games in order to debate around the game and Pedagogy. PPT of this talk.Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Gaming, Retro Serious Games, Pedagogy, Simulation, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games, Serious Play
La Saga des Jeux Vidéo (Book reference)
The french written reference about the history of videogames. This must-have book has know five different editions between 1997 and 2012. It details the story of many famous videogames thanks to interviews with their designers: Pong, Tomb Raider, Tetris, Doom, Myst, Sim City, etc. The book also have a background story with the life of Philippe Ulrich, famous french game designer and founder of Cryo, who have lived through all the stages of the videogames history. A very interesting read wi [...]Keywords : history, france, world of warcraft