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Serious games and pedagogy (Broacasting our studies)

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Keywords : Serious Game, Pedagogy

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Challenges for Game Designers (Book reference)

This book offers many practical exercises aiming to improve your Game Design skills. Each of the 21 book chapters is dedicated to one particular topic: game design basis, atom structure of games, puzzles, balancing between skill and luck, serious games, storytelling, multiplayer... After an explanation of the topic, the book chapter presents 5 exercises, focused on "non-digital" game creation, thus allowing to quickly put into practice these concepts. It's a very interesting and unique [...]

Keywords : game design, examples, exercices

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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Book reference)

An excellent book about the design of games written by Jesse Schell, a game designer who worked on Disneyland attractions and on the kids MMO Toontown Online, among others. With over 500 book pages, the author details the different aspects of the professional game design process, and explain how a game designer can influence them: game design documents, mechanics, interface, characters, the "client" funding the game, player's emotions, the game designer's artistic motivation... Besides [...]

Keywords : game design, examples, in-depth, jesse schell, disney

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The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses (Book reference)

The "deck of lenses" isn't a book, but a set of 100 cards that complete the book "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", by the same author. Each card represents one of the "lens" invented by Jesse Schell. A "lens" is a kind of "viewing angle" allowing the game designer to focus on a particular aspect of his game. These "lenses" are composed by a series of questions. For example, the "lens of judgement" makes the game d [...]

Keywords : jesse schell, game design tool, cards, lens

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Nouvelles technologies: le jeu vidéo se prend au sérieux (Broacasting our studies)

Fitness, lutte contre la maladie d'Alzheimer, formation continue..., les jeux vidéo trouvent de nouveaux publics.  Désormais, les jeux vidéo servent aussi à garder la forme. En commercialisant en avril dernier le jeu Wii-fit, pour faire des exercices physiques devant son téléviseur, Nintendo s'est attaqué à un marché très porteur: celui de la santé. "Ce jeu combine la demande d'interactivité du public a [...]

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Serious Games ou comment sont détournés les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

Presentation of the revue  Par rapport aux enjeux concernant les objets numériques de l'univers des jeunes, notre parti-pris habituel, notre réflexe, est d'abord d'avoir une approche souvent exclusive d'éducateur, et ce, non sans raisons. L'intérêt de cet article, à partir de l'exemple des serious games, est de vouloir situer ces enjeux, des points de vue à la fois du concepteur marketing de "produits à consommer" et de l [...]

Keywords : serious game, e-learning, edugaming, advergaming, edumarket game, serious gaming, advergame, edugame

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Le jeu sérieux : un nouvel horizon pour l'Ecole ? Entretien avec Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

Le jeu sérieux : un nouvel horizon pour l'Ecole ? Entretien avec Julian Alvarez Par François JarraudDe temps en temps, une thèse déplace la réflexion habituelle sur l'Ecole et lui ouvre une nouvelle fenêtre. C'est le cas de la recherche de Julian Alvarez sur le "jeu sérieux" (serious game). Elevé lui-même dans 3 systèmes éducatifs différents, il a retenu de son éducation suédoise l'id&e [...]

Keywords : teaching, serious game

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Play, Game, World : Anatomy of a Videogame (Broacasting our studies)

This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to study the nature of videogames. We will focus on videogames rules in order to try to understand the anatomy of a videogame. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for his classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames. We then analyzed these rules diagrams by using the definition of a game drawn by Salen & Zimmerman, which led us to propose a definition for the n [...]

Keywords : Rules, Gameplay, Videogames, Typology, Classification

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Dungeons & Desktops : The History of Computer Role-Playing Games (Book reference)

This is an heavy-weight (450 pages) book dedicated to the history of computer role-playing games. The purpose of the book isn't to provide information about how the game were made (there is no developer interview here), but to picture a general overview of the role-playing game genre through a detailed presentation of the most influential titles. The book is organized in chronological order. Each chapter focuses on a selection of games coming from a specific era: the pen-and-paper role-playing g [...]

Keywords : history, computer, role playing game, rpg, ultima, might & magic, goldbox, mud

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A Gameplay Definition throught Videogame Classification (Broacasting our studies)

This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a videogames classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have identified recurrent diagrams within rules of videogames, that we called “Gameplay Bricks”. The combinations of these different bricks should allow us to represent a classification of all videogames in accordance with their rules. In this article, we will study the nature of these bricks, es [...]

Keywords : gameplay, classification

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