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Les "usines à jeux" : la création de Serious Games par les enseignants ? (Broacasting our studies)
A confrence about the "Game Creation Toolkit" (software that can help create videogames) and how it can be used by teachers to create Serious Games for their students.Keywords : serious game, game creation toolkits, schools
Plaisir des sens, plaisir du sens : le design d'expérience à l'épreuve de la littérature (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, literature
Yoshihisa Kishimoto : Enter the Double Dragon (Book reference)
The biography of Yoshihisa Kishimoto, a japanese game creator unknown by the general public, although he created one of the most famous videogame series: "Double Dragon". This well written book is full of pictures and starts by telling you the childhood of this little-known genius, alongside with his thug-like youth where he was always eager to fight inside and outside of school. He hopefully changed his lifestyle before becoming a real criminal. Fond of movies, he then started to crea [...]Keywords : yoshihisa kishimoto, double dragon, kunio-kun, renegade, thunder strom, road avenger, vier, biography
Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish (Book reference)
This Game Design book is full of "practical advices" coming from an experimented Game Designer. Lewis Pulsipher designed several board games, his most famous title being Britannia (1986-2008). Each chapter of the book emphasizes over the traps to avoid and the good habits to follow in order to become a professional Game Designer: selecting a target audience; critical analysis of existing games; assessment of game ideas; creation of prototypes; the different stages of the Game Design pr [...]Keywords : game design, board games, lewis pulsipher, practical advices
Eurogames : The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games (Book reference)
This book analyses the modern wave of board games coming from Europe (mainly Germany), such as: Settlers from Catan, Carcassone, Ticket to Ride, Agricola, etc. After an introduction aiming to define the different kinds of "non digital" games (mass-market games, wargames, hooby games, etc.), the author details the captivating history of Anglo-American board games between 1960 and 1995: Acquire, Monopoly, Civilization, Illuminati, etc. The book pursues with the history of board games in [...]Keywords : eurogames, board games, hobby games, history, study, players, culture
Video Gaming for STEM Education (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT The focus of this chapter is how video games can be utilized for instructional purposes, specifically in the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Gaming, as an instructional tool, enables educators to create participatory learning activities, assess understanding of complex and ill-formed situations, facilitate critical thinking and problem solving capabilities, and ensure active engagement across the learning continuum for all students. How to use it eff [...]Keywords : Video games, Learning
Serious games for expertise training: Rules in questions (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:We propose the Architecture for Representations, Games, Interactions, and Learning among Experts (ARGILE) for participatory and knowledge - intensive serious games. Faced with the problem of training in the areas of advanced expertise and practices, reference knowledge is neither stabilized nor unanimous, but rather dynamic and continuously evolving. Moreover, the expert does not make decisions based on pre-established recipes, but it is brought to trial and error, to discuss with peers [...]Keywords : Games, Training, Computers, Computer architecture, Discussion forums, Communities, Knowledge engineering
Navigational techniques to improve usability and user experience in RPG games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:This paper presents the design and implementation of a mini map navigation system into an RPG Action Adventure game created using Unity3D game engine with the goal of improving the usability and user experience. The main aim of this work is to find out how a mini map navigation system can be beneficial to the end user and improve the over game play of a video game. The mini map can help reducing the user frustration, as well as aiding story progression so that it keeps the user immersed [...]Keywords : Games, Navigation, Prototypes, Usability, Animation, Cameras, Computers
Towards a collaborative tourist system using serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Nowadays, traveling is becoming increasingly easier. New and cheaper means of communication make tourism available for a larger number of people. Withal, smartphones are trending and they are replacing the common cellphone at a fast rate. It’s safe to assume that, in a near future, every single person will be able to afford a mobile device of this kind, including tourists. Many applications exist for mobile devices, specifically for smartphones, in order to help tourists in t [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Tourism
Book chapter: Classifying Serious Games with The G/P/S Model (Blog post)
We just uploaded in the list of our publications a book chapter related to the classification of Serious Games. This chapter presents the classification system used on the site http://serious.gameclassification.com/ to classify more than 2600 Serious Games. It was published last year in a book titled Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches, and it's now freely available on our website (draft version).Keywords : serious games, classification