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The effect of Testing and Feedback in Digital Game-based Learning (Broacasting our studies)
Research on digital game-based learning indicates that this learning method can be - under certain conditions - more efficient than other traditional teaching methods, such as textbooks, or web-based learning. Without additional support learning from games may or may not occur, this is why instructional support should be used in educational settings. The present study focuses on testing with feedback as a type of instructional support with great promise. Testing is widely used in almost all clas [...]Keywords : Digital game-based learning, Learning from games, Testing, Feedback
Capcom 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia (Book reference)
This book presents over 200 characters coming from the many video games created by Japanese studio Capcom. Each character is introduced on one page with a short text, in addition to one or two pictures. While this encyclopedia is far from being exhaustive, we appreciate the fact that characters coming from lesser-known games (Asura's Wrath, Star Gladiator, Red Earth, Rival Schools...) and ancients titles (1942, Vulgus, Commando...) are present, alongside with the ones coming for the most popular [...]Keywords : capcom, characters, street fighter, resident evil, megaman, art book
Minecraft - The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything (Book reference)
The biography of Markus "Notch" Persson, and his world famous creation: Minecraft (2011). This books details the birth of this legendary game, and it begins with the end of the story: the MineCon convention held up in 2011 to celebrate the official release of the 1.0 version of the game. At this date, the game was already played by 16 millions people in the world, making both Markus Persson and his company, Mojang, millionaires. The book then goes back to Notch's childhood, from his pa [...]Keywords : minecraft, notch, markus persson, mojang, indie, biography
Les Jeux vidéo (Book reference)
This book is part of a series titled "the world explained to grown-ups." Hence, with its 160 pages, it aims to explain, in a simple and accessible manner, the world of video games to people who don't know anything about it. Despite its reduced size, this books successfully manages to achieve his goal, as it talks about many topics: history of video games, their art and cultural aspect, their industry, their controversies (addiction & violence), alongside with more recent topics lik [...]Keywords : video game, introduction, history, art, industry, addiction, violence, gamification
Jacked : L'histoire officieuse de Grand Theft Auto (Book reference)
This book details the captivating story of the scandalous game series "Grand Theft Auto". Over 300 pages, the author tells us about the most epic moments of this saga: humble beginnings as a small arcade game made in Scotland by DMA Design; hiring Max Clifford to use media scandal as a marketing campaign; the hijacking of the series leadership by the Houser brothers and their studio Rockstar during the creation of GTA III; the first legal actions against the game series and the rise of [...]Keywords : grand theft auto, history, dma design, rockstar, jack thompson, david jones, sam houser, esrb
L'Histoire des jeux vidéo polémiques - Volume 1: Jeux de course/action et jeux érotiques (Book reference)
A series of books dedicated to videogames considered as controversial due to their content: violence, sex, promotion of an ideology. This first book in the series is dedicated to two kinds of videogames: car-action games (Death Race, Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto) and erotic games (the Atari 2600 games by Mystique, Rapelay, Singles, 7 sins, Playboy the Mansion...). Each title is discussed through a variable number of pages, from one or two pages to more than a dozen depending on how much the aut [...]Keywords : violence, sex, polemic, politics, grand theft auto, rapelay, familles de france, shane fenton
Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds: Commercial Video Games As Educational Tools (Book reference)
This book highlights the potential of video games for education purposes. Over 250 pages, 10 chapters are dealing with a different topic each. For example, one chapter relies on the Final Fantasy series to demonstrate the artistic potential of video games, while another chapter presents a classroom experiment conducted over the Harry Potter games and movies to make the students work on storytelling. While the book subject is very interesting, the quality of its chapters varies heavily. The best [...]Keywords : education, video game, classroom, theoretical
La saga Grand Theft Auto (Book reference)
This tiny 50 pages books aims to tell the history of the Grand Theft Auto (1997-2015) series of games. While the book offers many beautiful pictures, the text is unfortunately not up to the task. First of all, the books "forgets" about the first two episodes (barely mentioned), and begins his story with Grand Theft Auto III (Rockstar Games, 2001). Each title is then presented over a few pages. But the text only presents some numbers and a summary of each episodes features, without ever [...]Keywords : history, grand theft auto, gta, rockstar
L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies
Moreia featured on IndieGames and new highscore! (Blog post)
Our game Moreia just got featured on IndieGames! For his article, the journalist got in touch with the author of game Moreia is paying tribute to: MS Boa, created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. This game was originally created to promote a new mouse model released by Microsoft. Therefore, although being a freeware, MS Boa was solely distributed through the driver disks of this mouse! Here is a picture of this little know game: By the way, as we speak about Moreia, the act [...]Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa