LudoScience

Serious Wine night - Official registration of the Ludoscience association (Our projects)

In order to celebrate the official registration of our Ludoscience association, we organized a party at "La Cantine" in Toulouse (France). We proposed a selection of Serious Games to play, but we also introduced a wide selection of great french wines to taste and drink.     Medias who talked about it Ludovia "Inauguration de Ludoscience" Ludovia TV, 2011. Lire l'article (Ludovia TV) Chantal Delsouc "Inauguration de LudoScience : quand Serious gam [...]

Keywords : serious game, food

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Le rôle des interfaces dans l?expérience de jeu vidéo : le jeu du ping-pong et son adaptation sur des plateformes numériques (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract: The market success of Video games shows us that they have become a significant alternative for leisure and entertainment. While observing the trends one can realize that game designers tend to transpose or adapt leisure activities such as dance, playing music or sports to the context of video games which has become even more obvious with the appearance of input devices incorporating physical movement as a mode of interaction. Inspired by these different forms of leisure, vide [...]

Keywords : Design, videogames, interfaces, experiences, fun, interaction

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Pour comprendre les serious games: bien les nommer, bien les classer (Broacasting our studies)

An article about the classification of Serious Games

Keywords : serious game, classification, gps

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Mahjian (Our projects)

Mahjian is an "Alternate Reality Game" who took place during 6 month (from january to june 2011) in the city of Blagnac, France. Proposing puzzles to solve on Internet mixed with real-life treasure hunts throughout the city, alongside with a giant game-show as a closing event, this game was designed to promote the cultural activities of Blagnac city.  While we were working for the game libraray of the Odyssud cultural center, we got involved in the geensis of this game, an [...]

Keywords : serious game, alternate reality game

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Eco Reporter à Andromède (Broacasting our studies)

An article about our serious game "Eco-Reporter"

Keywords : serious game, ecology, education

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Le temps d'un serious game devenez éco-reporter (Broacasting our studies)

An article about our Serious Game "Eco-Reporter"

Keywords : serious game, education, ecology

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Can "Gaming 2.0" Help Design "Serious Games"? A Comparative Study (Broacasting our studies)

The "Serious Games" field raises a specific need. People without professional game design skills, such as teachers, corporate trainers, therapists and advertising professionals, request tools that could allow them to create or modify such games. This article will analyze "Gaming 2.0" examples in order to identify tools that could help fulfill this need. Indeed, "Gaming 2.0" is a way for players to create videogame content without skills from the entertainment videog [...]

Keywords : gaming 2.0, serious games, game design, level design, player-generated content

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From "Mods" to "Gaming 2.0": an overview of tools to ease the game design process (Broacasting our studies)

This article focuses on tools that allow amateurs to create or modify videogames. In order to contribute to study the nature of game design, we will analyze games as crafted "artifacts". We will first review five categories of tools that allow creating games, in order to highlight the different "parts" games are made of. We will then use this empirical review to introduce a simple model of the inner structure of games: the ISICO model.

Keywords : game design, tools, game creation toolkit, mods, gaming 2.0

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Andromède au coeur d'un jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

A journal article published in "La Dépèche du Midi" which presents the Serious Games EcoReporter : à la découverte d'Andromède and Le Jardinier Ecolo, designed by Damien Djaouti for his PhD thesis.

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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Andromède fait sa promo avec les jeux vidéos (Broacasting our studies)

A journal article published in "ToulEco" which presents the Serious Games EcoReporter : à la découverte d'Andromède and Le Jardinier Ecolo, designed by Damien Djaouti for his PhD thesis.

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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