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
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Keywords : video games, introduction, history, genres, design
The Date (Student project)
A dating game featuring several minigames. You seek for your soulmate, but in order to let him fall in love with you, you'll have to win a bunch of contests (become a dancing queen, recover his phone number...).
Keywords : feminine audience
A serious game presenting the "industrial designer" job to teenagers. The game is an interactive website where they can create and share their own furniture. Testing the game with teenagers
Keywords : serious game, industrial designer, website
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
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
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Keywords : pédagogie, Video Game, Avatar, Virtual Companion, Serious Game
A 421 dice game in a hamster singing contest.
Keywords : 421, casual game
Bill Kunkel, usually known as "The Game Doctor", is one of the videogaming press pioneers in the USA. With his lifetime friend Arnie Katz, he started to write down articles about videogames in 1978, for the Video magazine. In 1981, the two pioneers launched Electronic Games, the first magazine dedicated to videogames published in the USA - if not in the world. This autobiographic book gathers numerous trivia and short stories coming from the career of Bill Kunkel: the birth of Electron
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Keywords : biography, bill kunkel, video games, press, usa, electronic games, the game doctor
Most Game Design books tend to illustrate their ideas with some "case studies" coming from industry professionals. This books pushes this idea to the extreme: its 470 pages are solely dedicated to interviews with video game industry professionals. Over 200 professionals are interviewed, mostly American ones, ranging from unknown people to celebrities like Richard Garriott, David Perry, Sid Meier and Peter Molyneux. The advices and tips they give are both insightful and inspiring, and g
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Keywords : game design, professional tips, industry, interview
This book explains how to play a playful simulation of the inner US political system. It details the game rules, and how to play it with students, the game requiring only pens, paper, and several human players. Despite its age, this Serious Game is still used nowadays in Education, thanks to several updates since 2004. Its author, Donal Jansiewicz, chose to kept the game in a "non-digital" format, as he thinks that only human interactions are able to simulate the complexity of a politi
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Keywords : serious game, politics, paper, simulation