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Maximum Similarity Index (MSI): A metric to differentiate the performance of novices vs. multiple-experts in serious games (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractIn learning environments, appropriate objectives are needed to create the conditions for learning and consequently the performance to occur. It follows that appropriate metrics would also be necessary to properly measure what actually constitute performance in situ (within that environment), and to measure if learning has indeed occurred. Serious games environments can be problematic for performance measurement because publishers often posit the game would automatically facilit [...]A Data Mining attempt over GameClassification (Blog post)
"Data mining" is the science dedicated to the creation of knowledge through the analysis of large quantities of data, such as establishing customers habits by tracking how they use their loyalty cards. A few time ago, we were contacted by a computer science student, Axel RB, who desired to perform such analysis over video games, using the data about 38.000 video games collected on our website GameClassification. Thus, we gave him a dataset, and he just published his first findings on h [...]Keywords : data mining, game classification, research, computer science, video games
Video Game Music - Histoire de la musique de jeu vidéo (Book reference)
Over 300 full-color pages, this book focuses on one particular aspect of video games: music. Seven thematic chapters details the impact of the technological evolution on video game music, the similarities and differences between game music and movie music, the various ways music is actually used in video games, the wave of rhythm games, and the rise of rearranged OST and concerts. Each chapter is concluded with a short biography of the main compositors cited as examples, and the last book chapte [...]Keywords : music, j-rpg, concert, rearranged album, compositor, video game, history, analysis
(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
EMERGENT LEARNING THROUGH PLAYFUL INTERACTIONS AND SERIOUS GAMES WHEN COMBINING AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE WITH WIRELESS GRIDS (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore emergent learning in relation to playful interactions and instances of serious game conceptualization when combining the emerging and next generation technologies of ambient awareness with wireless grids. A review of the literature is presented for playful interactions and serious games in relation to ambient awareness and wireless grids. Using a case study approach and multiple methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection, the stu [...]Keywords : Ambient awareness, Ambient learning, Autonomy, Edgeware, Emergent learning, Emotion/affect, Playful interactions, Serious games
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
New section: the big list of books about videogames (Blog post)
A new year means a new section to the Ludoscience website! To celebrate 2014, we offer you a new "bibliography" section, dedicated to the books about videogames. This big list already features more than 80 books dealing with various topics: history of videogames, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, videogames studies & analysis... Each book is presented through a personal abstract and opinion, all purely subjective. But please note that we have read [...]Keywords : site update, books, videogames, history, game design, serious games
(Broacasting our studies)
AbstractNowadays the issue of learning through play has been raised because of the generalization of the use of video games. In the 1990s, the concept of game-based learning stood out and offered educational software claiming a play environment. In the 2000s, as the game-based learning didn’t seem to keep its promises, the concept of serious game stood out and offered new applications based on the video game culture. The founding title financed by the United States Armed Forces, America&rs [...]Keywords : Serious games, Edutainment, Learning, Education, Video game
GTA IV L'envers du rêve américain - Jeux vidéo et critique sociale (Book reference)
This book analyses the game Grant Theft Auto IV in order to highlight the social critic (of the American dream) it embeds. Over a hundred pages, the author begins with a study of the means video games can use to broadcast meaning, before going deeper inside the missions and game system of this title to reveal its political message.Keywords : politics, social critic, analysis, gta iv