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The Game Inventor's Guidebook (Book reference)
This book is a hands-on guide dedicated to the job of "traditional" games creator: board games, card games, role-playing games... It's divided in 5 sections. The first one gives a tour of this profession through famous games case studies: Trivial Pursuit, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and The Pokemon Trading Card Game. They are accompanied by interviews with a game author (Reiner Knizia) and a publisher (Mike Gray from Hasbro). The second part presents with more details [...]Keywords : game creator, job, traditional games, board games, card games, industry
Evaluer la cohérence d'un Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : serious game, coherence, analysis, gameplay bricks
Classification des jeux vidéo : des pistes pour construire une offre cohérente en ludothèque (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : classification, videogame, game library, symposium
Serious games and pedagogy (Broacasting our studies)
Conference wemailKeywords : Serious Game, Pedagogy
Challenges for Game Designers (Book reference)
This book offers many practical exercises aiming to improve your Game Design skills. Each of the 21 book chapters is dedicated to one particular topic: game design basis, atom structure of games, puzzles, balancing between skill and luck, serious games, storytelling, multiplayer... After an explanation of the topic, the book chapter presents 5 exercises, focused on "non-digital" game creation, thus allowing to quickly put into practice these concepts. It's a very interesting and unique [...]Keywords : game design, examples, exercices
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Book reference)
An excellent book about the design of games written by Jesse Schell, a game designer who worked on Disneyland attractions and on the kids MMO Toontown Online, among others. With over 500 book pages, the author details the different aspects of the professional game design process, and explain how a game designer can influence them: game design documents, mechanics, interface, characters, the "client" funding the game, player's emotions, the game designer's artistic motivation... Besides [...]Keywords : game design, examples, in-depth, jesse schell, disney
L'Histoire de Nintendo - volume 1 : 1889-1980 (Book reference)
Over a series of 7 books, Florent Gorges wrote the most complete history of Nintendo. The texts are easy to read and full of unique information, and are illustrated with many pictures of all the games and toys created by the company. This first book in the series is focused on the numerous creations made by Nintendo before entering the video and electronic games market: playing cards, toys, arcades, and some weird stuffs like office supplies. An absolute must-read book.This book was translated i [...]Keywords : history, nintendo, toys, cards
The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses (Book reference)
The "deck of lenses" isn't a book, but a set of 100 cards that complete the book "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses", by the same author. Each card represents one of the "lens" invented by Jesse Schell. A "lens" is a kind of "viewing angle" allowing the game designer to focus on a particular aspect of his game. These "lenses" are composed by a series of questions. For example, the "lens of judgement" makes the game d [...]Keywords : jesse schell, game design tool, cards, lens
Cerimes/jeux sérieux (Link)
French center of Multimedia Ressources dedicated to learningKeywords : blog, Serious Games