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Merci Dorian - La classification (Broacasting our studies)
A video chronicle explaining the classification of videogame, which mentions our own GamePlay bricks system (among others).Keywords : gameplay bricks, merci dorian, jeuxvideo.com, video game classification
Experimentation around the imaginations aroused by retrogaming (Broacasting our studies)
This communication attempts to study whether pioneer players who discovered video games in their early days, with very minimalist graphic representations, share a richer imagination than younger players when they are exposed to titles dating from 1977 to 1984.(Broacasting our studies)
In view to study the use and evaluation associating Serious Games in the context of education, should one consider whether players from different generations have different imaginaries when they are exposed to video games. Indeed, a teacher, because he has known video games from first generations, could convene the imaginary that its learners could interpret differently. To verify such a paradigm, this communication attempts to investigate whether players pioneers who&nb [...]Keywords : Imaginary, video game, retro gaming, serious game, lexicometric analysis
Call for papers: Serious gaming 2014 (Blog post)
Special session about serious gaming during the 6th Global Conference: Video Games Culture Project, from Thursday, 17th July to Saturday, 19th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Key words: serious games, serious gaming, education, projects with students, level design, case studies SimCity in geography lessons, Civilisation V for non-violence education, Read Dead Redemption as a means of addressing the history of the Far West… These [...]Keywords : Call for papers, Serious Gaming, Serious Game, education, projects with students, level design, case studies, Modding
Eric Chahi discusses his first Game Jam (Blog post)
Eric Chahi, a famous video games designer (Out of this World, anyone?), recently took part in the Retro Game Jam, a 32h video game creation competition held during november 2013 in Montpellier (France). In the video below, he discusses his feelings about this experience and presents the various prototypes of his game in order to explain his personal game creation process. A rare and very interesting testimony from a living videogame legend about the recent "Game Jam" phenomena (video i [...]Keywords : eric chahi, game jam
Mobile Game for Learning Bacteriology (Broacasting our studies)
This paper treats serious games. Recently, one of the game genres called serious game has become popular, which has other purposes besides enjoyments like education, training and so on. Especially, learning games of the serious games seem very attractive for the age of video games so that the authors developed a mobile game for learning bacteriology as one of the achievements of their research project. In this paper, the authors introduce the game and show evaluated results about its learning ef [...]Keywords : Serious games, Mobile learning, Educational contents, Bacteriology
Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres (Broacasting our studies)
Genre is an important feature for organizing and accessing video games. However, current descriptors of video game genres are unstandardized, undefined, and embedded with multiple information dimensions. This paper describes the development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information. Using facet analysis, the authors analyzed existing genre labels from scholarly, commercial, and popular sources, and [...]Keywords : Genre, Facet analysis, Video Games, Interactive media
Jeux vidéo : hors de contrôle ? - Industrie, politique, morale (Book reference)
This book deals with the public scandals that struck video games in France since the 80's. The author begins with an analysis of the public image of video game players broadcasted by the industry-produced ads, and compares it to the way general media dealt with video games. It actually sown the seeds for a moral crusade against video games, such as the one conducted by the Familles de France association. The book then studies the reasons, the details, and the outcomes of this famous episode of t [...]Keywords : politics, industry, moral, scandal
Ludoscience liste les livres sur les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : book, video game
RIHM Revue des Interactions Humaines Médiatisées 2013, Volume 14 - Issue 1 (thematic issue coordination) (Broacasting our studies)
While video games have established themselves as a major cultural industry of our time, the serious game, which derives from it, is arousing growing interest: more than simple entertainment, it promises to offer numerous perspectives in terms of prevention, training, education, learning, therapy, communication, training, data collection, etc. This is why the Grand Hainaut Chamber of Commerce and Industry took the initiative of organizing, since 2012 in Valenciennes, with the support of the Picta [...]Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Chamber of commerce