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L'incroyable histoire de la saga Mario Kart (Book reference)
This tiny 80 pages books tells the history of the Mario Kart series of games, from Super Mario Kart (Nintendo, 1992) to Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 2014), also including spin-offs like Mario Kart Arcade GP (Namco, 2005). This book features a lot of images and is very pleasant to read. It also offers many trivia related to the various series episodes, obtained through a direct interview with the main designers. As it can go into details due to lack of pages, this book is recommended to anyone who hav [...]Keywords : mario kart, history
A Novel Educational Game for teaching Emotion Identification Skills to Preschoolers with Autism Diagnosis (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Emotion recognition is essential in human communication and social interaction. Children with autism have been reported to exhibit deficits in understanding and expressing emotions. Those deficits seem to be rather permanent so intervention tools for improving those impairments are desirable. Educational interventions for teaching emotion recognition should occur as early as possible. It is argued that Serious Games can be very effective in the areas of therapy and education for ch [...]Dynamical modeling of the middle ear and tools organs interactions to develop a simulator applied to otological surgery (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Microsurgery of the middle ear requires high dexterity due to the finesse and the extreme sensitivity of the structures involved. Learning this surgery is delicate and is performed at the end of the residency. This work focuses on the development of a mechanical finite element model of the anatomical structures that compose the middle ear in order to design a surgical simulator. The objectives are to provide a versatile tool for learning and training of the surgery by surgical pra [...]Keywords : Medical and surgical simulations, Robotics, Computer science, Haptics, Minimally-invasive, Educational, Microsurgery
L'Histoire des jeux vidéo polémiques - Volume 2: Jeux de torture et jeux d'horreur (Book reference)
Following the first book in the series, this book continues to explore the history of controversial video games. This second volume focuses on games about "torture" (Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, Chiller, Manhunt, Mad World...) and horror-themed games (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, The House of the Dead, Sanitarium, Rule of Rose...). Each game and the media controversy that accompanied it are presented using a variable number of pages. Here, this book tends to suffer from the same flaw as t [...]Keywords : violence, torture, horror, controversy, addiction, media
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Book reference)
This book deals with the war opposing Sega to Nintendo during the 90's, in the USA, for the control of the home console market. Over 550 pages, it follows the story of Tom Kalinske, who ran Sega US branch from 1990 to 1996. The book tells the many efforts the man and his team made to push the Genesis / Megadrive onto the US market, to try to make a dent in Nintendo's near monopoly over this market. This war is made of many battles, such as an offensive marketing campaign around the game Sonic (1 [...]Keywords : sega, nintendo, 16 bits, usa, marketing, sony , tom kalinske, genesis
Les Oubliés de la Playhistoire - Intégrale de la saison 1 (Book reference)
"Les Oubliés de la Playhistoire" is French TV show broadcasted over the Nolife network, that highlights many unknown and intriguing video games. This companion book is packed with two DVDs gathering the 41 episodes of its first season. The books first details the birth of the TV show, thanks to the interview of the various people involved in the project. Each game featured in the first season of the show is then presented over two pages with a short text and several images. The [...]Keywords : oublies de la playhistoire, nolife, underdogs
Serious game : questions et réflexions autour de son appropriation dans un contexte d'enseignement (Broacasting our studies)
This communication addresses the issue of the appropriation of the Serious Game object by an ecosystem, particularly in the education area. The starting point begins with the observation that the video game is a basis for the development of many Serious Games. As such, this raises a set of resistors, including from parents of students and media. The video game is seen as negative, particularly by the violent images that some titles call. This can thereby impacting negatively inf [...]Keywords : Appropriation, Video Game, Serious Game, Accompaniment, Complexity
The history of Microsoft BOA (Blog post)
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, [...]Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love
Virtual Simulations and Serious Games in Community Health Nursing Education: A Review of the Literature (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractThe recent shift in healthcare delivery from that of the hospital to the community calls for skilled community health nurses. The role and practice of community health nurses differs from that of a nurse clinician. Unlike the skills required for that of a nurse clinician, much of the skills required for community health nursing and their application cannot be developed and practised within newly developed and highly innovative practice laboratory facilities where the focus of patient car [...]Keywords : Virtual Simulation, Serious Game
Retro Playing Book #1 : La Mega Drive, 25ème anniversaire (Book reference)
A 260 pages book dedicated to the history of the Genesis / Megadrive, the famous 16 bits Sega home console. The book is divided in 4 sections. The first one details the birth of the machine, while the second one is focused on the ads used by Sega to promote it ("Genesis Does!"). The third section presents a selection of emblematic Genesis titles. Each game is described over a single page with a short text and several screenshots. As this section is organized chronologically, it's a gre [...]Keywords : history, genesis, megadrive, sega, sonic, streets of rage, advertising