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L'Année Jeu Vidéo : 1992 (Book reference)
This tall book (larger than A4) is a collection of articles written by different authors who offer you a journey through the main video game-related events from the year 1992, in France. The book begins with a handful of papers dealing with year-long events, such as the home console competition between Nintendo and Sega, with a lot of figures. They are completed by a portrait of Masahiro Sakurai (Kirby, Smash Bros) and another one of the Lucasarts studio. Then, several articles are dealing with [...]Keywords : history, 1992, console, pc, super nes, lucasarts
A Web-Based Serious Game for Joint Training (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractA Web-Based Serious Game for Joint Training As military systems and processes are becoming increasingly complex and thus more difficult to comprehend, large-scale exercises for NATO Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (JISR) are regularly performed yet are often obstructed by insufficient staff preparedness. To address this concern, this thesis presents the design, prototypal implementation, and evaluation of a modular and web-based serious game called Exercise Trai [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Defence, Military, Simulation, Simulation game
Correspondances et contrastes entre jeux traditionnels et jeux numériques (Broacasting our studies)
Progressively, a kind of paradox is created through the scientific literature related to the game and play fields. The number of works dedicated only to video games conceals gradually the works dedicated to traditional games, although there are always strong links between those two kinds of games. It seems thus clear that a mutual lighting should make us wonder about the singularity or complementarities of the two areas. We propose to look at some of these existing links and contrasts between tr [...]Keywords : video game, tabletop game, board game, Serious games, Gameplay, Play, e-sport
Gaming Preferences, Motivations, and Experiences of Pharmacy Students in Asia (Broacasting our studies)
Objective: Serious games are becoming popular in various healthcare domains. However, they should be designed to cater toward learners' perspectives, needs, and specifications in order to be used to their full potential in education. This study investigated the gaming experiences, motivations, and preferences of pharmacy students.Materials and Methods: An anonymous self-administered survey obtained participant demographics, gaming experiences (enjoyment level of different game genres, [...]Pix'n Love HS #1 - PlayStation VS Saturn : La guerre des 32 bits (Book reference)
This book details the history of two legendary game consoles, both released in 1994. The 300 pages are divided in two parts. The first part tells with great details the history of the PlayStation, and the making of its 10 most popular games (Wipeout, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid…). The second half is dedicated to the history of the Saturn and 10 of its best titles (Nights, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA…). Despite already abundant [...]Keywords : saturn, playstation, history, sony, sega, wipeout, virtua fighter, 32 bits
PlayStation VS Saturn : La guerre des 32 bits (Broacasting our studies)
This book details the history of two legendary game consoles, both released in 1994. The 300 pages are divided in two parts. The first part tells with great details the history of the PlayStation, and the making of its 10 most popular games (Wipeout, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid…). The second half is dedicated to the history of the Saturn and 10 of its best titles (Nights, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, Panzer Dragoon, Daytona USA…). Despite already abun [...]Keywords : playstation, saturn, history
Analysis of serious games based on pedagogical features and proposal of civil defence training game (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractThis paper focuses on the analysis of serious games. We analysed and evaluated serious games, and particularly their training aspect, based on the classification method of Djaouti et al. (2011b). Further, we evaluated existing training games and based on the results developed a civil defence training game for Korea. The game has been designed to train professional civil defence personnel based on pedagogical features of serious games for training. This research can serve as the groundwor [...]Keywords : Serious games, Pedagogical features, Civil defence training, Training games, Game-based training, Safety education
AMBIENTE DE SIMULAÇÃO BASEADO NO JOGO SUPER BOMBERMAN PARA ENSINO E PESQUISA EM INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT One of the main problems involving the process of teaching and learning in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is the fact that the students possess a superficial understanding of algorithms and techniques presented in class, due to lack of exercise them in practice. In view of this, in this paper, we made a brief description of the main characteristics of intelligent agents and simulation environments, and we approach how the games can take a "serious" characte [...]Keywords : Artificial Intelligence, Serious Games, Intelligent Agent, Simulation Environment, Bomberman X
Comparative Study to Develop a Tool for the Quality Assessment of Serious Games Intended to be used in Education. (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract—Serious games are present today in several fields such as education, government, health, defense, industry, civil security and science. In our research we are particularly interested in serious games used in education since they have become an essential part of the learning process and one of the main pedagogical tools used for diffusion of educational messages. So the use of serious games in an educational context can motivate students and stimulate their interest as they fit int [...]Keywords : Assessment Grid, Education, Serious games, SG-LOM
A Tale of Two Cities: A Multimodal Analysis of the Figurative Expressions about City in Picture Books (Broacasting our studies)
Realizing the significant role that city plays in the development of human civilization, the influence it brings to people’s life in the modern society, as well as its absence in fields other than architecture, urban design, and urban planning, this research aims to study the multimodal metaphorical manifestations of civic imagery in picture books from a cognitive linguistic point of view. Relying on the Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification Procedure (VVMMIP) constructed by us [...]Keywords : Multimodal metaphor, Metonymy, City, Picture books, Visual-Verbal Multimodal Metaphor Identification P, Magic surrealism, Multimodal Metaphorical Scenario Chain Reaction