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Disco hit my Keyboard (Student project)

Your keyboard is a dancefloor !   Follow the flashlights by pressing the according key, and let the groove runs though your veins !  Disco is still alive !

Keywords : keyboard

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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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Project Based Learning (Our projects)

This learning project intents to raise students awareness on videogame academic research through Project Based Learning (P.B.L.).   The students are involved in our different research project through the design of serious game, talks about history or culture related research or even through the creation of original gameplay principles...   The students are also invited to share their own points of view through collective debates and group projects relying on their personnal thoughts [...]

Keywords : game design, education

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Game Classification (Our projects)

A research project designed to build a classification system suited to videogames. This projet resulted in a website featuring a collaborative classification system based on multiple criterias. The games are classified according to their gameplay, their purposes, their markets and target audience, alongside with user-contributed keywords.     http://www.gameclassification.com     The classification of videogames, a complex problem... The classification of videogame [...]

Keywords : classification, videogames

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Design Demystified (Book reference)

This book is written by Jobe Makar, a veteran Flash game developer working for the ElectroTank studio, and aims to teach you how to create videogames with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Unlike most other books on this topic, this one doesn't limit itself to explaining the source code of the examples games featured on the companion CD. While one half of the book is indeed dedicated to these examples games, the 250 remaining pages explain with great details, but easy to understand text, the working pri [...]

Keywords : flash, action, programming, videogames, algorithm

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