Carmageddon (Broacasting our studies)
An article about the history of Carmageddon, based on interviews with creators of the game.
Keywords : carmageddon, history, video game
"Data mining" is the science dedicated to the creation of knowledge through the analysis of large quantities of data, such as establishing customers habits by tracking how they use their loyalty cards. A few time ago, we were contacted by a computer science student, Axel RB, who desired to perform such analysis over video games, using the data about 38.000 video games collected on our website GameClassification. Thus, we gave him a dataset, and he just published his first findings on h
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Keywords : data mining, game classification, research, computer science, video games
Almost unknown, BOA is a nice little game for MS-DOS created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. It's an arcade game similar to Snake, besides the fact that you are playing a rat trying to avoid being eaten by the snake! The oddest thing about this game lies in its distribution model: it was solely available through the driver disk of a mouse created by Microsoft, the "Contour Mouse", also known as "Dove Bar." Due to the technological limitations of the era,
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Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love
Les vertus pédagogiques des « serious games »Après les écoles, l’université utilise les jeux sérieux, des nouveaux outils collaboratifs et professionnalisants On connaissait les «serious games» – «jeux sérieux», en français – pour les entre- prises; à l’heure où les questions d’innovation pédagogique se mul- tiplient, de nombreuses universi- te
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Keywords : Serious Game, Mooc, Learning, University
Serious games are growing rapidly as a gaming industry as well as a field of academic research. There are many surveys in the field of digital serious games; however, most surveys are specific to a particular area such as education or health. So far, there has been little work done to survey digital serious games in general, which is the main goal of this paper. Hence, we discuss relevant work on serious games in different application areas including education, well-being, advertisement, cultura
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A short 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
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
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Keywords : violence, sex, polemic, politics, grand theft auto, rapelay, familles de france, shane fenton
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
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Keywords : education, video game, classroom, theoretical
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
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Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa
An article from the website IndieGames.com about the game Moreia, created by Dr.Ludos.
Keywords : indie game, news