LudoScience
Français
EnglishSearch716 results
Developing Serious Games (Book reference)
A book aiming to guide you through the different steps of the Serious Game creation process. Unfortunately, and despite its more than 450 pages, this book fails to deeply explore this topic. On one hand, the author wastes too many pages covering topics not directly related to the creation of Serious Games, such the various computer standards or an overview of the technological trends in 2006. On the other hand, the author doesn't go enough into the details when covering the central topics of the [...]Keywords : serious games, examples, design
Gam.B.A.S. (Our projects)
Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure. Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1 The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay? Demonstation videos of the two prototypes created (2007): Publications related to this project Many analysis have yet to be done, [...]Keywords : game design, game creation software
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
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
A Collaborative Classification of Games & Serious Games (Database) (Broacasting our studies)
Databases dedicated to: - Videogames : gameclassification.com- Serious Games : serious.gameclassification.com - Game Creation Tools : creatools.gameclassification.com These databases are collaborative and can be enriched by web users.Keywords : Database, Serious Games, Video games, Game creation tools
Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, And Inform (Book reference)
One of the flagship book of the current wave of Serious Games, focused on videogames. This 350 pages book start with a definition of Serious Games, through a comparative analysis with entertainment videogames. It then features a lot of games examples for each of the main Serious Games application domains in 2005: defense, government, corporate, education, healthcare, politics, religion and art. This book also gives some Serious Games design advices related to each of these domains. This bo [...]Keywords : serious game, definition, examples
Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution (Book reference)
This book gives a portrayal of several famous video game creators: Cliff Bleszinski (Unreal Tournament, Gears of War), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda...), Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims...), John Romero and John Carmack, alongside with three bonus chapters dedicated to the first video games, to military Serious Games (America's Army) and to MMORPG players (Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies). Overall, the book is very pleasant to read and filled with interesting information. The portraits of c [...]Keywords : history, cliff bleszinski, will wright, america's army, star wars galaxies, anarchy online
Valoriser via le jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
This article describes the innovative approach taken by the French Ministry of Education, which is using video gamesto convey a message to the 15-18 age group in order to promote its industrial sectors.Taking a scientific approach to communication and sociology, we begin by exploring the strategy putin place to develop games designed to convey the desired message, followed by a study of the very firstreceptions in the field. Read paper on Research Gate Read paper on HAL &n [...]Keywords : Pedagogy, Video Game, Serious Game, Education
Jouer / Apprendre (Book reference)
An essay written by Gilles Brougère, a researcher specialized about games, dealing with the relations between playing and learning. This book addresses play as a general activity, ranging from kids play in preschools to video games. The author stars with the definition of "game" and "play", before diving into the relationships between play and leisure, education and leisure, and, last but not least, play and education. Through the idea of "informal learning", [...]Keywords : essay, learning science, learning, game, play, education, leisure, school
Technocity (Our projects)
Technocity is a serious game released in March 2006, and freely distributed to the 600 high school and college located in the region around Toulouse City (South-West in France). The purpose of this edumarket game is to promote courses related to industrial and technical jobs towards a 15 to 18 years old audience. This title was created for the french ministry of education. This was a first experiment for the Toulouse section of french ministry of education, who wan [...]Keywords : serious game