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An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
An introduction to the exciting world of Serious Games The month of November IUM recently played host to none other than renowned researcher and consultant Dr. Julian Alvarez who was presenting a lecture to students on Serious Games and Game Technologies. He talked to students of the course Fundamentals of communication and advertising which is overseen by Professor MN. Jauffret-Cervetti. He mesmerized the students with the technology behind Advergames, Edumarket games and gamificatio [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Advergames, Conference, Communication, Gamification
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This paper aims to propose a state of the art of digital tools for health training. On this occasion, it draws an overview of these objects according to 3 categories: Serious Game, Serious Play and Simulator. The analysis of these categories leads us to specify the characteristics, uses, audiences, objectives... of each of them. In this way, we establish a link between Serious Play and Simulator and clearly distinguish Simulators from Serious Games. The simulator is sometimes based on numerical [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Serious Play, Simulator, Simulation
Comment évaluer la qualité d?un Learning Game pendant sa conception ? (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT • Learning Games (LG) are educational environments based on a playful approach to learning. Their use has proven to be promising in many domains, but is at present restricted by the time consuming and costly nature of the developing process. In this paper, we propose a grid of quality indicators that can help the conception team evaluate the quality of their LG during the designing process and before it is developed. By doing so, the designers can identify and repair the problems i [...]Keywords : Learning Games, Serious Games, Evaluation, Quality, Cost, Conception, Development
Japanmanship - The ultimate guide book to working in video game development in Japan (Book reference)
This one-of-a-kind book is guide for any foreigner who wants to work in the Japanese video game industry. James Kay, the British-born author of the book, has personally made this move: he worked for different Japanese video games studios during 10 years, and then founded his own studio there. Over 300 pages, he tackles all the questions one could ask: Why go to Japan to create video games? How to get hired in a Japanese studio? How to find a place to live? And how is the day-to-day life in a Jap [...]Keywords : japan, video game, industry, guidebook, job
Update: publications and projects (Blog post)
A quick update on the website to add some new publications and projects in which we were involved. Regarding publications, you'll find a couple of posters displayed at the VS-Games 2012 conference to present two ongoing research projects. The first one is titled "TBL3D: Towards Serious Applications for Telescope Maintenance and Control", and presents a Serious Games project about the giant Telescope of a french observatory (download the poster). The second poster details a q [...]Keywords : projects, publications
Les jeux vidéo, ça rend pas idiot (Book reference)
This tiny book (100 pages in a pocket format) is full of wisdom and expert analysis about a delicate topic: are videogames dangerous? In this book, Yann Leroux, a psychologist specialized on this subject, provides us with a excellent synthesis of all the scientific studies that happened about the effects of violent videogames and the addiction to videogames. This synthesis is written in a clear and simple language, and we thus strongly recommend this book to any parent, teacher, politician [...]Keywords : addiction, violence, psychology, simple, parents, reassuring
Serious Games: an Introduction / Introduction au Serious Game (Book reference)
This book explores the "Serious Games" universe. It starts with a definition of Serious Games, in order to identify their differences from entertainment videogames. It will then present out with a lot of current examples of Serious Games from various domains: education, healthcare, communication, defense, politics, etc. The third part will explain you the history of Serious Games, while the fourth and final part gathers many interviews with people from the Serious Games field: de [...]Keywords : serious game, definition, history, interviews, examples
Terrible Nerd (Book reference)
The biography of Kevin Savetz, a computer and video games journalist, who is also a real "geek", in the positive meaning of this word. In this book, he tells us about his childhood and grown-up years, deeply tied to the main technological evolutions of the 80-90's: the rise of personal computing, the birth of video games, the BBS networks, and of course Internet. Born in the beginning of the 70's, Kevin Savetz grew up in company of the Channel F, the Intellivision, the TI 99/4A, the At [...]Keywords : kevin savetz, geek, bbs, internet, computer, video game, culture
Aesthetic experience and the interface in digital games The production of an edutainment game - Moon (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract In this research, we present one of the principal aspects of games. The interfaces or better knew by the acronym HUD’s (Heads-Up Display). We are going to show the succinct evolution in the history of games suffered by them as well as the advance in their production in order to amplify or affect positive the immersion in digital games. We emphasize forms and ways of developing what we consider an intelligent interface (Boschetti, 2001), in order to help the INDIE developers w [...]Keywords : Interface, Aesthetic experience, Edutainment game
La Bible PC Engine - volume 2 : les CD-ROMs (Book reference)
This bible is dedicated to the PC Engine home console (also known as TurboGrafx 16). This second volume starts by telling you the story of how this console arrived in France, alongside with the story of studio RED, the creators of the famous "PC Kid" game. But the main part of the book is a full listing of every game ever released for this console on the CD-ROM format (more that 400 games). Each game is presented with a screenshot alongside with a small text describing it. A refere [...]Keywords : history, pc engine, turbografx 16, cd-rom, bible