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Livres sur les jeux vidéo - la bibliothèque idéale de Ludoscience (Broacasting our studies)
New section: the big list of books about videogames (Blog post)
A new year means a new section to the Ludoscience website! To celebrate 2014, we offer you a new "bibliography" section, dedicated to the books about videogames. This big list already features more than 80 books dealing with various topics: history of videogames, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, videogames studies & analysis... Each book is presented through a personal abstract and opinion, all purely subjective. But please note that we have read [...]Keywords : site update, books, videogames, history, game design, serious games
Ludoscience liste les livres sur les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : book, video game
The One Fork Restaurant - postmortem (Blog post)
Happy new year everyone! This new year comes with an improved version of my first ever LudumDare competition entry: The One Fork Restaurant. To celebrate the release of the final version of this game, I've decided to write down a full postmortem about it. As the title implies, it's a funny time-management game taking place in a restaurant, where many people come to eat various meals. But the restaurant has only one fork, so customers have to share it! When the customers are w [...]Keywords : the one fork restaurant, postmortem, ludum dare 28, game design, game development
Shigeru Miyamoto : parcours du "Spielberg des jeux vidéo" (Lesson)
A lesson outlining Shigeru Miyamoto's early career, from his beginning at Nintendo in 1977 to the release of Zelda in 1986.Keywords : shigeru miyamoto, mario, zelda, donkey kong, nintendo
Card Game Jam (Lesson)
Rules of the "Card Game Jam", a small design challenge with a very strong time constraint.Keywords : cards, game jam, game design
THE SERIOUS GAMES FOR LEARNING THE CHALLENGE OF A STANDARD MAINTENANCE AND COMPETITIVE GAMEPLAY AND DESIGN (Broacasting our studies)
Introduction The value of video games for learning is a controversial issue that has fueled numerous investigations since the first electronic games captivated generations of young people and children in the 80s (and Méndiz De Aguilera, 2004). While, initially, there were suspicions to believe that video games could be useful in education and training field currently, it is a widely shared by both researchers concept, for educators (Del Moral, 2010; Gros, 2009, Gros, 2000 Etxeberr&ia [...]Keywords : Video games, Learning, Values
Ubiquitous Biofeedback Multimedia Systems (Broacasting our studies)
Human wellbeing, in a large component, relies on the harmony between the body and the mind. Unfortunately, we often miss or ignore important signals from our bodies, and sometimes this can negatively impact our health. Therefore, the use of intelligent systems that grasp such signals and convey them in an intuitive manner to our minds can result in great health benefits. In this Thesis, we introduce a family of multimedia technologies and techniques aimed at realizing such systems. We call them: [...]Serious games and human resources management: a mapping in the CAC 40 companies (Broacasting our studies)
For almost ten years, serious games have been becoming more and more popular in large French companies, especially toward human resource managers who use them to recruit, integrate, train, support, develop, communicate and sensitize. However, few research papers are based on the academic literature in management science. The purpose of this paper is to build a typology of serious games based on their use in human resource management. To construct this typology, an inventory of all serious games [...]Keywords : Serious game, Ressources humaines, Cartographie, Usages, Grandes entreprises
Une proposition de modèle de design pédagogique dans un processus de co-conception d'un jeu sérieux par des apprenants-concepteurs (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Since the 90s, integrating computer-based educational gaming into the learning process has been amply studied and criticized for not producing conclusive evidence, especially within the context of edutainment and CBT (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, 2005; p.265). Nonetheless, the emergence of constructivist learning environments, constructivist- centered learning approaches and instructional design models are providing new ways for integration of educational game in classrooms. A third generati [...]Keywords : Edutainment, Edugame, Serious games, Education, Learning through design, Co-conception, Instructional design and model