The serious game combines fun means with a productive, educational or communicational purpose. The book approaches the subject from an original angle, starting from the functions of playful activity in the animal world to question the paradoxical purposes in the production and use of video games. Julian Alvarez thus connects the solitary game offered by the most sophisticated virtual mediations with the most apparently rudimentary animal practices. However, he does not stop at this comparison bu
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Keywords : Liberty, Gamification, Edutainment, Ludopedagogy, Ethics, Interpretive gap, Video game, Game
This Mind Map presents all Julian Alvarez's work since 1991 in the fields of serious games, edutainment, video games, robot pedagogy... In concrete terms, you'll find writings, applications, videos, podcasts... The idea is to offer you a different way of browsing the various resources.We welcome your feedback!
This mind map presents all Julian Alvarez's work since 1991 in the fields of serious games, edutainment, video games, robot pedagogy... In concrete terms, you'll find writings, applications, videos, podcasts... The idea is to offer you a different way of browsing the various resources. We welcome your feedback!
Keywords : Mind Map, Ressources
Why use games in schools, extracurricular activities and associations? Can games help us learn? What skills can be acquired through play? We invite you to the Canopé 972 workshop on November 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.! Come and discover the “Lab'Ludopédagogie”, a space dedicated to experimentation, exchange and sharing around play. Morning: Conferences/discussions with Julian Alvarez (in person or online) 
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Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Serious game
Workshop designed to introduce participants to how to structure a fun educational session through a concrete illustration: setting up a fun activity involving video games. The objective is to make them understand the concept of the three educational stages: introducing, facilitating and debriefing the activity to maximize the chances of achieving the useful goals.
Keywords : Video game, Pedagogy, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Serious game, Gamification, Structuring
Abstract— While the serious game concept has considerably evolved in the last two decades, it still needs to be clearly differentiated from other types of artifacts. Thus, there is a degree of confusion about the relationship between serious games and other related applications such as simulators or the re-purposing of entertainment games within educational practices for most outside the domain. This article proposes a formal approach toward classifying Games, Toys, Serious Games, Serious
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Keywords : Formal definition, Health, Health Game, Serious Game, Serious Modding, Serious Re-purposing, Serious Toy, Simulator
This article investigated whether it is possible to establish correspondences between game mechanics and particular cognitive stimulations. There are many challenges to prevent and treat cognitive decline with aging or neurocognitive disease. Observing difficulties to establish such correspondences in the scientific literature, we proposed to move away from “classification by genre” or any other type of taxonomy that deviates from the framework of the “Rules/Formal schemas&rdqu
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Keywords : video games, serious games, game mechanics, cognitive functions, executive functions
The present study aims to verify the emergence of the terms « game play » (in one word) and « gameplay » (in two words) within the framework of the Anglophone and Francophone video game cultural sphere. Starting from the writings of Wikipedia who sees the origin of these words associated with the mention « How the game plays ? » which would have appeared on the first coin-op arcade games, we are conducting an investigation of
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Keywords : gameplay, game play, video game, lexicometry, emergence, coin-op arcade Games, History of video game
The aim of this conference is to present how to structure an edutainment sequence or session. The workshop is designed to be interactive, and participants are invited to take part in a treasure hunt with the following instructions:The objective is to reach the first padlock.You can work alone or in a team.The aim is to reach the first padlock, either alone or as part of a team.Look for clues to the “quête de connaissances" (quest for knowledge). Beware, however, that some o
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Keywords : Treasure hunt, Edutainment, Serious game, Ludopedagogy
(Broacasting our studies)
On February 5, 2020 in Lille, as part of the “Didapro” Francophone computer didactics symposium, a workshop entitled “MOTIF..MOTIF..MOTIF.. is to repeat MOTIF... 3 times” was proposed. (https://www.didapro.org/8/programme/#atelier). The aim of the workshop was to introduce young Cycle 1 pupils (kindergarten and first grade) to computer thinking through two edutainment sessions involving teachers and researchers. The proposed activities were game-based, with the pedagogica
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Keywords : Serious game, Edutainment, Ludopedagogy, Evaluation, Debriefing, Education, CEPAJe, Colectyng