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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
Serious Games: use of video games for educational purposes (Broacasting our studies)
Article written for teachers. It presents Serious Games, their advantages and their limits, alongside with some practical tips on how to choose them, with some real-examples.Keywords : serious games, advantages, limits, teachers, examples
Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) (Book reference)
A book on the history of SEGA as a console manufacturer. After a brief introduction telling the birth of the company, this thick 480 pages book details the story of all its home consoles: SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis with its Sega CD and Sega 32X addons, Saturn and the Dreamcast. While the beginnings of SEGA and its first two consoles are explained rather quickly over 30 pages, the main part of the book details with high precision the story of its most famous consoles. About 150 [...]Keywords : history, sega, master system, genesis, sega cd, sega 32x, saturn, dreamcast
Shared Situational Awareness between inland actors at Port of Rotterdam: Improving Shared Situational Awareness by means of a game session (Broacasting our studies)
Inland transport is a crucial component for the gateway ports such as Rotterdam. There are different parties involved in the inland transport: forwarders, shipping line agents, shipping lines, sea terminals, inland carriers, etc. To operate effectively and efficiently cooperation and collaboration is required between all involved parties. The claim of this project is that the root of several problems occurring in the container flow can be explained by the low level of Shared Situational Awarenes [...]La Bible Game Boy (Book reference)
This bible focuses on the Game Boy portable console from Nintendo, in its "classic" version (black and white games) . The first part of the book tells a detailed history of this console with a lot of pictures, and also presents the various Game Boy models: the original one, the "colored" versions, the Game Boy Light, and a lot of limited editions. The second and main part of the book is dedicated to a list of every "black and white" game cartridge ever rele [...]Keywords : bible, history, encyclopedia, game boy, nintendo
"RevQuest: The Black Chambers": Bringing together technology and gaming at a historical site (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:In the digital age, museums and historical sites must explore how to leverage technologies to engage guests. Gaming-whether technology-based or not--is an approach that some museums have been using as a means for teaching visitors. Bringing the two together to create an online-onsite-online game is an effective approach for educating, immersing, and engaging guests, especially “digital natives” for whom technology is an integral part of daily life. In June 2013, the Colonial [...]Keywords : Games, Cities and towns, XML, History, Sociology, Statistics, Engines
Serious games in health care based on multimedia technologies (Broacasting our studies)
This paper describes the development currently being conducted into serious games which pursue some form of benefit in the field of health care. Although serious games are associated with software developments, developing them in the area of health care involves studying the associated multimedia technology and paying attention to aspects related to interaction with the game. Serious games for health cover matters related to education and medical treatment, rehabilitation and psychological treat [...]Keywords : Games, Computers, Educational institutions, Mixers, Medical treatment
Les métiers des jeux vidéo et de l'animation (Book reference)
This book is a guide presenting the professional side of the videogames universe in a simple but complete way. It's divided in 4 parts. The first one presents the "day-to-day reality", by answering questions like "how do we create videogames?", "do we spent the day playing games?" or "can we became rich?", etc. The second part dissects the different jobs related to videogames, and explains their role and the kind of skills they require: game designer, scen [...]Keywords : jobs, training courses, video games, industry, company, guide, student
Eric Chahi : Parcours d'un créateur de jeux vidéo français (Book reference)
The biography of Eric Chahi, a famous french creator behind the international hit Another World / Out of this World (1991). Full of pictures, this book details the main events of his career. As he is a talented but shy creator, this book doesn't detail his private life, only the videogames he created. He began when he was still at high-school, by creating games for Oric-1 and Amstrad CPC, such as Le Pacte (1986), a game that pushed him to abandon his studies at the age of 19 to pursue a full tim [...]Keywords : biography, eric chahi, out of this world, another world, heart of darkness, from dust
Histoires secrètes des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
This book tells the story of 13 famous video games: Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Angry Birds, Les Sims, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, World of Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, Doom, Alone in the Dark, Prince of Persia and Tetris. Each chapter of this 300 pages book is dedicated to one of those games, and presents some information about it. While the book is pleasant to read, the amount of unique information is very variable from one game to another. The book chapters range from exc [...]Keywords : history, angry birds, tetris, uncharted, assassin's cred, tomb raider