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CROSSROAD project (Broacasting our studies)
Disclaimer: The CROSSROAD project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. This document reflects only authors’ views. EC is not liable for any use that may be done of the information contained therein. Executive summary This document is the final version of the Research Roadmap on Governance and Policy Modelling, which lists and describes research themes to be supported by future public funding through Science & Technological Roadmappin [...]Keywords : Roadmap, Grand Challenges, Research Challenges, Model-based Collaborative Governance, Data powered collective intelligence and action, Government Service Utility
Serious Game and Fun Food. The process of food socialization for children (Broacasting our studies)
An exploratory approach of the links between "Fun Food" and Serious Games related to food.Keywords : serious game, fun food
Evaluation of the impact of Serious Games in the context of Customer Relations (Broacasting our studies)
Post-doctoral thesis carried out from June 9, 2008 to September 8, 2009 at Orange Labs / France Télécom.The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of Serious Games (SG) on the general public and on employees of the France Telecom group. The overall approach is written within the framework of Customer Relationship (CR), which is orchestrated by OR Tools for Customer Relationship. The main challenges are to- To help optimize customer relationship management with the aim of obtai [...]Keywords : Serious Games, Serious Play, Impact, Customer Relationship
Quatre amis (Student project)
You'll be able to enjoy student party through the eyes of four differents friends. It's up to you to choose who will enjoy the party, and more specifically who will manage to have fun safely!Keywords : interactive fiction, alcohol prevention, photo
The Ultimate Game Guide To Your Life: Or, the Video Game As Existential Metaphor (Book reference)
A comical book. It's a parody of the videogame strategy guides, dedicated to the greatest "game" of them all: the real life. This book will give you advices to achieve many difficult goals such as "walking" (level: "baby"), "asking a girl out" (level: "teenager") or "finding a job" (level: young grown-up). While it's not the most revolutionary book out there, it's a nice book, with some either funny or deep chapters, and a few excellent [...]Keywords : humor, strategy guide, real life
Evaluating the coherence of a Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
This paper proposes a methodology for assessing the coherence of a serious game.Given the extreme diversity of serious games, this methodology is based on the postulate of defining such objects as computer applications combining serious content with a videogame structure. The approach presented in this article is based on the formal deconstruction of “gameplay”, by reducing game rules to elementary functions. The ludic structure, thus formalized, can then be confronted with the utili [...]Keywords : serious game, coherence, analysis, gameplay bricks, Evaluation
Construction of a classification of video games (Broacasting our studies)
This conference is part of a workshop entitled “Deconstructing video games? Ways to build a coherent offer in toy libraries”, taking place at the 11th International Congress of Toy Libraries. This presentation explores the way in which video games are classified, using a formal system and Gameplay Bricks. In concrete terms, the idea is to use Objective and Means Bricks to identify gameplay families. By classifying such families, we can establish a taxonomy of video games. With such a [...]Keywords : Gameplay bricks, Classification, Deconstruction, Formalism, Taxonomy, Video game, Formal system, Database
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Book reference)
An excellent book about the design of games written by Jesse Schell, a game designer who worked on Disneyland attractions and on the kids MMO Toontown Online, among others. With over 500 book pages, the author details the different aspects of the professional game design process, and explain how a game designer can influence them: game design documents, mechanics, interface, characters, the "client" funding the game, player's emotions, the game designer's artistic motivation... Besides [...]Keywords : game design, examples, in-depth, jesse schell, disney
Infra-narrative level of video games: functions and narrative modalities seen as Game and Play "bricks" (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to focus on the “infra-narrative” level of video games, i.e., the elements that lie below or on the bangs of the main narrative. In this formal referential, the question is to apprehend whether gameplay bricks can constitute narrative functions and modalities. This approach refers to the work of Vladimir Propp, who in 1928 identified a set of functions in a corpus of Russian fairy tales.Keywords : Gameplay, Semiotic, Narrative, Narration, Gameplay Bricks, Formal deconstruction, Narrative functions, Storytelling
Théories du Game Design (Lesson)
-= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the window to give it the keyboard focus,then use the left and right arrow keys to browse through the slides)Keywords : fun, flow, patterns