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Navigating Video Games: Studying Spatial Representations and Practices of Video Game Players (Broacasting our studies)

While video games have become a major cultural practice, we still know little about the diversity of the video game audiences and their practices. Identifying the main issues in the reticularization of the territories in which video game are used, and rising above normative debates on violence and addiction, requires a multidisciplinary approach, at the interface between social and cultural geography, and the sociology of cultural practices. The analysis of video games as spatial systems enable [...]

Keywords : Cultural practice, Network, Space, Territory, Video game

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Through a Chilly Land between First-Person Shoot-Em-Up and Tourist Blockbuster (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract: The new media have brought with them new forms of engagement with history. Jáchym Topol’s most recent novel, which plays with a grotesque war of memorial strategies in the Czech Republic and Belarus, reacts to this challenge with intermedial references, including structural imitation and a computer game. This article describes the textual means of creating an immersive experience that include literary modelling of the narrative strategies on the first-person shooter c [...]

Keywords : Transmediality, Fictional immersion, Computer gaming, Culture of memory, Collective memory, Representation of history, Jáchym Topol, Novel

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Se former en jouant : le "serious game" (Broacasting our studies)

 Interview by Philippe Duport  Hear the podcast

Keywords : Serious games

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Muzax 21 - The Serious Games! (Broacasting our studies)

 Ce numéro de Muzax va vous faire découvrir l’univers des « Serious Games ».  Pour la première fois dans Muzax, je recevais 3 invités. Julian Alvarez, Docteur en science de l'information et de la communication. Damien Djaouti, Doctorant en Art et Informatique à l’Université de Toulouse. Et Olivier Batiste, grand joueur de jeux vidéo, ancien rédacteur et co-équipier dans l’&eacut [...]

Keywords : Serious games

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Serious Wine night - Official registration of the Ludoscience association (Our projects)

In order to celebrate the official registration of our Ludoscience association, we organized a party at "La Cantine" in Toulouse (France). We proposed a selection of Serious Games to play, but we also introduced a wide selection of great french wines to taste and drink.     Medias who talked about it Ludovia "Inauguration de Ludoscience" Ludovia TV, 2011. Lire l'article (Ludovia TV) Chantal Delsouc "Inauguration de LudoScience : quand Serious gam [...]

Keywords : serious game, food

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Jeux vidéo thérapeutiques: "pour l'instant, il faut y croire ?" (Broacasting our studies)

 Depuis quelques années, des spécialistes développent des jeux vidéo "thérapeutiques" capables de traiter certaines maladies motrices et neurologiques. Pourtant, même si la perspective est prometteuse, le chemin vers la reconnaissance est encore long.

Keywords : Serious games, Health, Health game

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Le rôle des interfaces dans l?expérience de jeu vidéo : le jeu du ping-pong et son adaptation sur des plateformes numériques (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract: The market success of Video games shows us that they have become a significant alternative for leisure and entertainment. While observing the trends one can realize that game designers tend to transpose or adapt leisure activities such as dance, playing music or sports to the context of video games which has become even more obvious with the appearance of input devices incorporating physical movement as a mode of interaction. Inspired by these different forms of leisure, vide [...]

Keywords : Design, videogames, interfaces, experiences, fun, interaction

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la conduite et la simulation (Broacasting our studies)

 Gérard Feldzer talk about Serious games...

Keywords : Simulation

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The educational contribution of serious games (Broacasting our studies)

From the education 2010 show, the students of LDVTV proposed us a special show on the "serious games", broadcast live on Curiosphere.tv. In the present from this broadcast, Julien Llanas, Chargé de mission in the Academy of Créteil, and Julian Alvarez, researcher and designer of serious games in Ludoscience, specify the specificity of the educational contribution of serious games.   Acces to the vidéo

Keywords : Serious game, Education, Pedagogy

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Les Sagas du Jeu Vidéo n°1 - Assassin's Creed (Book reference)

This book focuses on the Assassin's Creed saga: it analyses the first two episodes of the series, alongside with Brotherhood, as the book was written in 2010. This book is divided in three complementary parts. The "Creation" part tells about the birth of the games in Ubisoft studios. The "Universe" part details the scenarios of each episode, written in separate chapters in order to allow you to avoid "spoilers". Last but not least, the "Analysis" part anal [...]

Keywords : assassin's creed, saga, analysis

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