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Gam.B.A.S. 2.0 (Our projects)

Direct successor of the Gam.B.A.S. project,this new project aimes to build a new software tool able to ease the creation of videogames. To achieve this goal, it relies on the idea of "Gameplay Bricks", in order to allow real-time creation and modification of the rules of the game through an high-level of abstraction.      A short video clip of the only created prototype (2008):    Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Ga [...]

Keywords : game design, game creation software

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Narration et Interaction : relations en milieu vidéoludique (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : interactive storytelling, classification, gameplay, rules

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Serious Game: just a question of posture? (Broacasting our studies)

This article explains the difference between a large variety of Serious Games and tries to propose a classification to understand this type of video games. We explore the connection between the goal of the game designer, the objective of the game and the posture of the player. Finally, we explore how we can create some serious game to make corporate communication or educative program. 

Keywords : serious game

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Towards a classification of Video Games (Broacasting our studies)

This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a video games classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of video games, named "Game Bricks". The combinations of these different bricks will allow us to represent a classification, in accordance to their rules, of all the video games. In this article, we will study the real link between these bricks and [...]

Keywords : Classification, Rules, Video Games, Gameplay

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Morphological study of the video games (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is first to present V.E.Ga.S., a tool which intend to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. It consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composition of elementary “game bricks”. Basing our study on this bricks and crossing them, we try to classify and study video games. In a second time, this paper presents the classification deduced from the results of V.E.Ga.S.

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Experimental Methods, Gameplay, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy

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A classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is to present a classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach. The methodology consisted in indexing a significant number of video games by taking account their elementary “game bricks”. At last all these combinations have been studied in a database called V.E.Ga.S. Access to proceedings

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Game, Play, Morphology

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V.E.Ga.S.: A tool to study morphology of the video games (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is to present V.E.Ga.S tool, which intends to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. The approach has been inspired by the methodology of Vladimir Propp, who has classified Russian Tales at the time, as well as on the works and the "iterative" approach of the game designers Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. The approach consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composit [...]

Keywords : Classification, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy, Bricks, Experimental Methods

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Etude morphologique des jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

L’objet de cet article est de présenter un outil destiné à classer les jeux vidéo, étudier leur nature et corroborer des hypothèses par une approche pragmatique. L’approche suivie est de s’inspirer de la méthodologie de Vladimir Propp qui a servi à classer les contes russes en son temps, tout en nous appuyant sur les travaux et l’approche « itérative » des game designers Katie Salen et Er [...]

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Video games

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Video game classification (Videogame)

More than 39000 games classified according many criterias: authors, years, gameplay, machines... 

Keywords : Video Game

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Gam.B.A.S. (Our projects)

Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure.   Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1  The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay? Demonstation videos of the two prototypes created (2007):      Publications related to this project Many analysis have yet to be done, [...]

Keywords : game design, game creation software

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