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Le Serious Game comme outil de communication locale : 2 jeux pour découvrir Andromède (Broacasting our studies)

A presentation of our serious game created for the urban district "Andromède", located near Toulouse.  This example shows how Serious Games can be used to communicate by local public organisations.

Keywords : serious game, ecology, local organisation

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Introduction au Serious game (Book reference)

This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: designer [...]

Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples

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Mahjian (Our projects)

Mahjian is an "Alternate Reality Game" who took place during 6 month (from january to june 2011) in the city of Blagnac, France. Proposing puzzles to solve on Internet mixed with real-life treasure hunts throughout the city, alongside with a giant game-show as a closing event, this game was designed to promote the cultural activities of Blagnac city.  While we were working for the game libraray of the Odyssud cultural center, we got involved in the geensis of this game, an [...]

Keywords : serious game, alternate reality game

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Introduction au Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)

A book about Serious game. Download the PDF book (2e edition 2012) 

Keywords : Serious games

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Eco Reporter à Andromède (Broacasting our studies)

An article about our serious game "Eco-Reporter"

Keywords : serious game, ecology, education

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Le temps d'un serious game devenez éco-reporter (Broacasting our studies)

An article about our Serious Game "Eco-Reporter"

Keywords : serious game, education, ecology

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Can "Gaming 2.0" Help Design "Serious Games"? A Comparative Study (Broacasting our studies)

The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog [...]

Keywords : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content

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Interview de Damien Djaouti (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : e-learning, interview, serious game

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Serious gaming: From learning experience towards User Experience (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract:A number of existing innovation paradigms and design approaches such as Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003), User Experience (Hassenzahl & Tractinsky, 2006) and User Centred Design (Von Hippel, 2005), as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem (Pallot, 2009a), are promoting distributed collaboration among organisations and user communities. However, project stakeholders are mainly trained for improving their individual skills through learning experience (i.e. practical exercis [...]

Keywords : Experiential Service Platform, Serious Game, Learning Experience, User Experience, Living Lab, User Co-Creation, Collaborative Distance

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Jeux et simulations éducatifs : Etudes de cas et leçons apprises (Book reference)

A thick 600-pages book detailing the findings of a large scientific research project dedicated to the use of video games for education. The 26 chapters of this book are written like quite separate contributions, and address topics ranging from theory to practice, such as the design of educational video games or the study of their effects. A book warmly recommended to any researcher in the field thanks to very rich book contents, backed by an extensive literature review and several field experime [...]

Keywords : serious game, education, theory, practice, design, literature review

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