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Fun & Games 2012 - Student Game Design Competition Chair (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : game design competition
Tribute to those who pay tribute (Blog post)
Who knows Alive published by Lankhor in 1991? Probably very few people. This adventure game for the Amstrad CPC was developed by Arnaud Laplace and myself when we were still in high school. Inspired by films such as “New York 1997” and “Planet of the Apes",we imagined the game's story and then improvised as game designers, writers, coders, computer graphics artists and musicians to bring it to life. The [...]Keywords : Retrogaming, Video game, Adventure, Amstrad CPC, Video game history
Introducing the European Serious Games Awards! (Blog post)
The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards Ceremony will take place during the VS-Games 2012 Conference in Genoa, Italy, on October 30th 2012. *Prizes* Each winner of one the 4 European Serious Games Awards will be rewarded by the following cash priz [...]Keywords : serious games, awards, europe
Zones Humides Protect (Our projects)
This Serious Games aims to raise general public's awareness on the topic of "Wetlands". The play has to manage a city by expanding industrial activity while maintaining a healthy ecological environment and providing a good quality of water to the city. Will you be able to balance all this contradictory goals? This Serious Games was created in partnership by the company Acceptable Avenir (final client and serious content), the research lab Ecolab (serious content), the co [...]Keywords : wetlands, serious game, ecology, management
How to customize Twitter widget (Blog post)
Among the numerous functionalities featured on Twitter, one of coolest is the ability to display our own tweets on your blog. A very nice official widget can be used to do this, as we are doing on this blog. However, customization options offered by this widget are quite limited. For example, it is not possible to modify the size of the text used to display tweets. After spending a long time seeking for a solution to this problem, I'd like to share the most efficient one I found: the modi [...]Keywords : twitter, widget, customization
Video games and urban simulation: new tools or new tricks? (Broacasting our studies)
Video games allow complex systems modelling, revealing retroaction loops, replicating self-organization and the emergence of hierarchical organization, functional differentiation and social segregation through multi-level interactions. Recent trends focus on improving modelling tools’ graphic quality and interface attractiveness and on using video games to facilitate urban studies teaching and research. This apparent convergence between simulation and video games is addressed through a sel [...]Keywords : Video games, Modelling, Simulation, Models, Representation, Self-organisation, Emergence, Urban studies
Fun house ludus loci and the American home as folly (Broacasting our studies)
ABSRACT While play marks both the cultural and pre-cultural spheres of human existence, the environmental design disciplines have almost exclusively compartmentalized the notions of play and fun into categories of leisure and children’s playgrounds. The rhetorics of environmental design, to date, have ignored, or at best marginalized, the possibility of play outside of recreational and commercial contexts. Still, we have abundant examples of playful architecture and fun places that st [...]Keywords : Design, Architecture, Fun architecture, Game
L'histoire de Mario (Book reference)
Without a doubt, this book is the most interesting story about the birth of Mario available! Written in the spirit of a PhD thesis (analysis of references in order to build and prove an hypothesis) while remaining easy to read, this book finally answers to a fundamental question: why Mario? In other words, this book will tell you how and why this character became the icon of Nintendo instead of a then more popular character: Donkey Kong. A book that any Mario fan should read as they will discove [...]Keywords : history, mario, donkey kong
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
EDoS: An authoring environment for serious games design based on three models (Broacasting our studies)
Serious games (SGs), the confluence of e-learning and videogames, have been developing very fast these past years. Indeed, SGs combine aspects of tutoring, teaching, training, communication and information, with entertainment elements derived from videogames, in order to capture people's attention for purposes that go beyond pure entertainment. However, the creation of a SG for educational purposes and professional training is a very time-consuming and expensive process. The challenge is to comb [...]Keywords : Serious games, Scenario design, Authoring environment, e-learning, Pedagogical objective