An article about the first videogames from 1947 to 1958: the CRT Amusement Device, the NIMrod, OXO, HutSpiel and Tennis for Two.
Keywords : history, pioneers, videogames
An article about using the GamePlay bricks with arcade games
Keywords : bricks, gameplay, arcade
ABSTRACT: Video games have become a prime choice of entertainment not only for young people but also in adults or women. Development Studies advertisers and organizations that mediate between them have discovered the potential of videogames as a medium for marketing communication. Thus, the advergame and the in-game advertising have become a powerful and dynamic medium for communicating ideas, products, services or items in an original manner, which also offers video game development studios an
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Keywords : Advertainment, Advergame, In-game advertising, Product placement, Videogames
A french article about Serious Games and questions about learning...
Keywords : Serious Games, Learning
The creation and development of multimedia devices destined for the general public pose many questions for designers. In this article we present two multimedia applications – a Serious Play and a Serious Game – which were part of an experiment performed in 2006. This article will present both devices designed specifically for the promotion of a prehistoric heritage site – the Gargas caves – and describe how they were received by the general public. The aim of this task wa
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Keywords : Serious Game, Cultural Heritage, Prehistory
Comix Zone (Broacasting our studies)
An article about the genesis of Comix Zone (1995), alongside with an interview of its game designer Peter Morawiec.
Keywords : history, videogames
A Wii near the coffe machine? To play PES in order to animate a meeting? Business stratgies elaborated thanks to Advance Wars? Not at all, we're going to talk about "serious games"...Read the article (french).
Article dedicated to Retro Serious Games. Pix'N Love #7 (pages 90 to 97).
Keywords : Serious Games, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games
Since the first days of the Serious Gaming industry, many Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare were released. However, all these games don’t serve the same purpose, nor they target the same audience. This article tries to propose an approach suited to handle the variety of such Serious Games. Starting from general definitions of Serious Games, we will build a taxonomy of Healthcare-related to Serious Games accompanied with several examples.
Keywords : Serious Game, Retro Serious Game, Taxonomy, Healthcare, Prevention
A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology. Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game. Publication
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Keywords : serious game, ecology