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Les Briques Gameplay - la classification des jeux vidéo par leur principe ludique (Broacasting our studies)

A conference dedicated to GamePlay bricks and their use to analyse and classify video games. Speakers:Julian Alvarez (Julian.alvarez@univ-lille1.fr)Docteur en Sciences de l’information et de la communication. Responsable du laboratoire consulaire Play Research Lab (PRL) dédié à l’étude du jeu et de ses usages.Plus de 150 Serious Games à son actif pour TF1, Dupuis, Milan, CNRS …Damien Djaouti (damien@ludoscience.com)Maître [...]

Keywords : gameplay, bricks, Game design, Classification

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Jeux vidéo : hors de contrôle ? - Industrie, politique, morale (Book reference)

This book deals with the public scandals that struck video games in France since the 80's. The author begins with an analysis of the public image of video game players broadcasted by the industry-produced ads, and compares it to the way general media dealt with video games. It actually sown the seeds for a moral crusade against video games, such as the one conducted by the Familles de France association. The book then studies the reasons, the details, and the outcomes of this famous episode of t [...]

Keywords : politics, industry, moral, scandal

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New lessons materials (Blog post)

While this will be of little use if you can't read french, I just uploaded 5 new lessons materials on the website: An overall presentation of the history of videogames (from 1952 to 2013).A presentation of the various jobs related to videogames (from AAA game designers to indies or journalist).An updated version of our presentation of the Game Design theories.An updated version of our presentation about the structure of games (i.e. what is gameplay?).An introduction to Serious Games, to [...]

Keywords : lessons materials

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L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)

An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)  

Keywords : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies

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(Broacasting our studies)

Journée d’études sur le Serious Game 7 décembre, MSH Paris Nord Labex ICCA (Industries de la Culture et Création Artistique)  Résumé Dans le cadre du groupe de recherche sur le Serious Game du Labex Industries culturelles et création artistique (ICCA), cette journée d’études vise à présenter et discuter des approches théoriques et méthodologiques en se penchant &ag [...]

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Video games and marketing (Broacasting our studies)

Presentation of key figures and trends in video games, serious games and marketing. The elements are taken from the study conducted with IDATE and published in 2012 . Marketing, economics, research: 3 cycles of conferences to decode these subjects.On Friday November 16, day 2 of Montpellier Agglomération's Montpellier In Game will feature “Game in marcketing”, “Game in economics” and “Game in R&D”, 3 cycles of conferences to help prof [...]

Keywords : Marketing, Serious Game, Video game, Markets, Segmentation, Study, Report

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Les jeux vidéo comme objet de recherche (Broacasting our studies)

INTRODUCTION Les jeux vidéo sont, en apparence, aisément appropriables. Ils constituent un objet culturel porteur de nombreux discours normatifs, souvent très polarisés (les jeux vidéo c’est… beau/rigolo/idiot etc.) Dans les années 1980, les discours de dénonciation étaient dominants, utilisant les mêmes arguments que les critiques antérieures adressées aux médias de masse (télévisi [...]

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Des Pixels à Hollywood (Book reference)

This book deals with the rich history of videogames and cinema, and more specifically their relations with American movies. The author details with a high level of precision the various links between the movie and videogame industries, such as the numerous movies-games and games-movies adaptions. But the author doesn't remain at a surface level, he pursues his analysis at a deep level: he studies the evolution of games-movies relations according to the different economical eras of the videogames [...]

Keywords : cinema, videogames, hollywood, thesis, mario, donkey kong, warner

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EFFECTIVENESS OF TEXT REPRESENTATIONS IN THE AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF REGIONAL GAME DESIGN TRENDS IN VIDEO GAME REVIEWS (Broacasting our studies)

1 Introduction As one of the fastest growing segments of the global entertainment market (Szalai, 2007), video games have come to represent a wide spectrum of values in terms of expectations and design decisions of the groups involved in their development and publication. Despite a rapidly expanding market, changing demographics and growing global economic importance, regional differences in game designs have yet to be fully explored. The underlying premise of this research is that game com [...]

Keywords : Video games, Genre, Game components

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