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UrbaniZ (Student project)

A serious game teaching about the urban planner job. You'll face up to 5 urban planning missions, through a nice Sim City-like building game. But be carefut about your ecological and budgertary constraints ! 

Keywords : serious game, urban planner, build, sim city

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Engineer (Student project)

A serious game about the engineer job. You are an engineer who have to complete a project, from team management to final presentation. Each step is illustrated by a minigame, alongside with several Quiz that deliver information about the engineer job. 

Keywords : serious game, minigames, engineer

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Engineeland (Student project)

A serious game about the engineer job. This game is a Final Fantasy-like RPG, in which you play as an engineer-wannabe. You'll have to face loads of hazards (team management, logic, ressource collection...) through your quest to become a real engineer, so you can save the fantasy world of Engineeland ! 

Keywords : serious game, engineer, role-playing game (rpg), rpg maker, final fantasy

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EngineEscape (Student project)

A serious game that deals with the engineer job. It's an Escape the room adventure game: trapped in a room, you'll have to pass a series of tests and puzzle in order to exit. Do you have all the engineer-like skills required to escape this room ? 

Keywords : serious game, escape the room, adventure, engineer

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InsAdventure (Student project)

A serious game about the engineer job, focused on INSA , a french engineer school. The game features several minigames illustrating each department, thus different specializations: urban engineer, systems engineer and chemical engineer. 

Keywords : serious game, engineer, school, minigames

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Make'Em Chat (Student project)

A serious game about the network engineer job. Very original, this game plays with one of the missions of network engineers: connecting computers. Link the people together, but beware of networks overloads ! 

Keywords : serious game, engineer, network, casual game

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Apport des technologies multimédias dans le système d'apprentissage en ligne Sphinx (Broacasting our studies)

This paper presents the project of extension of the on-line learning system Sphinx to multimedia capabilities. Sphinx is actually used by the students of the University Laval at Quebec in an artificial intelligence course. This system enables the student to revise during their course and before the exams. The originality of the method rises in collaborative way of working, each student adding comments on the others. This interactivity has reach its boundaries and a new way is arising in order to [...]

Keywords : pédagogie, Video Game, Avatar, Virtual Companion, Serious Game

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Le ludo-éducatif : quelle déontologie dans la création des jeux ? (Broacasting our studies)

A round-table discussion on edutainment, focusing on ethical and deontological issues when creating games:What are the ethics involved in creating games?What are the risks? What are the safeguards?How do games and education interact?

Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Ethics, Deontology, Design, Edutainment, Game design, Serious game design

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Communiquer par le jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

That national education, the United Nations and Greenpeace, for example, use video games to convey a message and communicate, reveals that this form of digital leisure constitutes a credible alternative to traditional forms of communication.    Furthermore, if the message includes an educational dimension, in the most global sense of the term, we believe that we are facing a new product in the world of multimedia. In this communication, we propose to take a critical lo [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Advertainment, Edugame, Education, Innovation, Marketing, Réception

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Edumarket game (Broacasting our studies)

During this conference, the aim was to present the Edumarket game concept. This corresponds to a Serious Game combining an educational dimension and a brand. This raises a number of ethical questions: is it conceivable to teach children to read, with the parallel introduction of a brand in a school setting, for example? At the same time, using a video game to teach is in a way promoting a license that students are likely to consume after class... 

Keywords : serious game, Edumarket game, Ethic, Branding, Advertising, Licence

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