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Telecom Panic (Student project)

An adventure and management game which will let you discover the pionneering telecommunication devices. Going back through time, you'll first have to manage ressources in order to let people "re-invent" the first telecommunication devices. You'll then be able to use them in order to understand how they worked. This game will extend your knowledge related to the history of telecommunications. 

Keywords : serious game, telecommunication, adventure

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The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses (Book reference)

The "deck of lenses" isn't a book, but a set of 100 cards that complete the book "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", by the same author. Each card represents one of the "lens" invented by Jesse Schell. A "lens" is a kind of "viewing angle" allowing the game designer to focus on a particular aspect of his game. These "lenses" are composed by a series of questions. For example, the "lens of judgement" makes the game d [...]

Keywords : jesse schell, game design tool, cards, lens

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Cerimes/jeux sérieux (Link)

French center of Multimedia Ressources dedicated to learning

Keywords : blog, Serious Games

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Fiction et Interactivité (Lesson)

A presentation about the different ways you can mix interactivity with storywriting and/or storytelling, alongside with the introduction of some basic concepts from narrative studies (artistole's narrative arc, climax...). -= 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 : interactive storytelling, videogames, interactive storywriting

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Le monde des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

This tiny 88 pages book attempts to provide a introduction to the world of video games to people who doesn't know anything about them. It begins with a quick summary of the history of video games, followed by a detailed presentation of the main games genres. It then presents the main steps of the creation process of a video games, and ends with leads for their future. The book is written in a way that makes each topic covered over two pages only: video games from the 70's, the 80's, the 90's, ac [...]

Keywords : video games, introduction, history, genres, design

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Art, jeu vidéo et cognition (Lesson)

-= 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 : art

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Fundamentals of Game Design (Book reference)

A 700 pages introductory bible to the many concepts of Game Design. This book is an updated and revised edition of "Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design", and it's still divided in two parts. The first one is explaining the fundamental concepts of video game design: game design process, game mechanics, balancing, storytelling, characters, level design, etc. The second part of the book presents the main video game genres (action, adventure, simulation, sports, etc.) and their [...]

Keywords : game design, introduction, genre, beginner

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Video Games And Interactive Media: A Glimpse at New Digital Entertainment (Book reference)

A small book (150 pages) laying down a general introduction to the universe of videogames. The author details the history of videogames (with the contribution of the Le Diberder brothers and their "cycles theory" on this topic), the various jobs of the videogames industry and the process of game design, and in a last chapter try to analyze the future of videogames as a communicational tool. It's the English translation of a french book published in 2004 under the title "Jeux [...]

Keywords : introduction, jobs, history, schools

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Project Based Learning (Our projects)

This learning project intents to raise students awareness on videogame academic research through Project Based Learning (P.B.L.).   The students are involved in our different research project through the design of serious game, talks about history or culture related research or even through the creation of original gameplay principles...   The students are also invited to share their own points of view through collective debates and group projects relying on their personnal thoughts [...]

Keywords : game design, education

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Gargas cave (Our projects)

A serious game created the 100th anniversary celebration of the "Gargas caves", a prehistoric site located in France. Famous for its negative wall-paintings of hands and its overlapping engravings of animal figures, part of this cave is unfortunately no longer visitable. Indeed, public access limited to avoid the deterioration (due to lightning and or CO2 rejected by breathing visitors) of its historical treasures.   This virtual version of the caves presents you with a wall roc [...]

Keywords : serious game, prehistory

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