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Sortie d'une nouvelle édition d'un ouvrage sur les "Serious Games" (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious game, book

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Expanding the magic circle in pervasive casual play (Broacasting our studies)

In this document we present proposals for merging the fictional game world with the real world taking into account the profile of casual players. To merge games with reality we resorted to the creation of games that explore diverse real world elements. We focused on sound, video, physiological data, accelerometer data, weather and location. We made the choice for these real world elements because data, about those elements, can be acquired making use of functionality already available, or forese [...]

Keywords : Casual games, Pervasive games, Sound, Video, Physiological data, Electrodermal activity, Accelerometer, Weather

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Serious Games: an introduction, now available as eBook! (Blog post)

 Our editor has just published an eBook version of our book "Serious Games: an introduction". This version meets the request of several readers who asked us an electronic format. It is available here. For the occasion, our editor has put online the first 32 pages of this 2nd edition of the book in free access. Enjoy! 

Keywords : Serious game, Serious Gaming, Serious Play, eBook, Health, Learning, Market, Communication

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Tu le crois ça ? (Book reference)

The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's [...]

Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt

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Serious Games pour la formation : utiliser, faire ou faire faire ? (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious games, education

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Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs de Jeux Vidéo 8/16-bits (Book reference)

This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg [...]

Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers

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La création de Serious Games avec des étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur : retour d'expériences (Broacasting our studies)

Keywords : serious games, game creation tools, project based learning

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Julian Alvarez (Play research lab) : "Les serious games permettent de contextualiser les enseignements théoriques avec des cas concrets" (Broacasting our studies)

     Les 4 et 5 juin 2013 s'est tenu le salon E-virtuoses, dédié au serious game et à tous ses usages. Julian Alvarez, chercheur au Play research lab, laboratoire R&D de la CCI Grand Hainaut et enseignant à l’université Lille 1, revient sur un concept clé pour l'enseignement supérieur, le serious gaming. A l'heure où la question de l’innovation pédagogique est de plus en plus présente dans l [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Serious gaming, Education, Learning

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Le Play Research Lab de Valenciennes présenté par Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)

  Le play Research lab est un laboratoire de Recherche & développement (R&d), de la cci grand Hainaut, dédié à la ludologie spécialisé dans l’évaluation de jeux (Serious games, jeux thérapeutiques, edugames, advergames...), d’utilisateurs de jeux (bilan de compétences, diagnostics, expériences...), de projets (cahiers des charges, prototypes de jeux...). • d’écosystèmes co [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Play, Research, Ludology, Laboratory

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Réaliser des Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs ? (Broacasting our studies)

Depuis 2005, nous dispensons des cours sur la conception de jeux vidéo aux étudiants de plusieurs cursus universitaires et centres de formation (INSA et plusieurs départements de l’Université de Toulouse, France). L’objectif pédagogique visé est d’amener les apprenants à concevoir et réaliser de petits projets de jeux vidéo à message. Les thématiques étant orientées par exemple sur la sen [...]

Keywords : newsgames, critical thinking, project-based learning

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