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Why So Serious? On the Relation of Serious Games and Learning (Broacasting our studies)

Serious games have become a key segment in the games market as well as in academic research. Although the number of games that identify themselves as belonging to this category as well as the research done on their effects has been rapidly growing, there has thus far been no attempt to define all of the various opportunities that digital games provide for learning. To address this issue we look at existing definitions of serious games and their potential for learning. We identify the shortcoming [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Learning

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Le Talk CT2E: Damien Djaouti (Broacasting our studies)

An interview in the news bulletin program of the webtv "CT2E" which presents the Serious Games EcoReporter : à la découverte d'Andromède and Le Jardinier Ecolo, designed by Damien Djaouti for his PhD thesis.

Keywords : serious game, ecology, tv

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Jouez sérieusement à l'écocitoyen (Broacasting our studies)

A journal article published in "20 Minutes" which presents the Serious Games EcoReporter : à la découverte d'Andromède and Le Jardinier Ecolo, designed by Damien Djaouti for his PhD thesis.

Keywords : serious games, ecology

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La formation à distance se la joue nouvelles technologies (Broacasting our studies)

A journal article presenting many good ideas in the education businnes, including Serious Games.

Keywords : serious game, education, businness

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Les Chroniques de Player One (Book reference)

This books tells the history of Player One, a French magazine dedicated to home videogames and manga, alongside with its various spin-offs such as Nintendo Player, Ultra Player, Manga Player and Player Station. Thanks to the interviews with most of the journalists who wrote for it, this 300 pages books gathers a lot of unique information. It starts with an introduction detailing the arrival of Manga and Anime in France, a context in which a company called Média Système Edition firs [...]

Keywords : player one, history, france, press, manga

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Mythologie des jeux vidéo (Book reference)

This book aims to deconstruct the "positive discourses about video games", that helped it to be regarded in a less negative way as the time went by. While the topic is very interesting, the extremely small size of this book (96 pages in very small A6 format) prevents him to reach this goal. Instead of a rigorous analysis that such a topic requires, the authors limit themselves to some broad and bold critics (such as the french university being under the order of the video game industry [...]

Keywords : critic, video game, positive discourse, media

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On the core elements of the experience of playing video games (Broacasting our studies)

AbstractThis dissertation presents a multi-method approach to study the user experience of playing video games. The motivation is to devise an objective assessment of the concept of user experience. It is proposed that user experience is better understood when it is studied as a two fold phenomenon formed by a process and an outcome. This definition allows the combination of the subjective nature of experience together with the objectivity needed to propose an objective assessment of experi [...]

Keywords : User experience, Video Game, Gaming experience, Metaphor

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IG Magazine (Book reference)

IG Magazine is a journal, issued every 2 months, with a format that is half-way between a book and a regular journal. Each issue comes with more than 250 pages dedicated to the current trends, the economy, the culture and the history of videogames. IG magazine was published between March 2009 and July 2013, for a total of 27 regular issues and 10 additional "special issues." It was an excellent journal, the only french journal that was able to talk about current videogames topics while [...]

Keywords : journal, news, economy, culture, history, analysis

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LCI, Plein Ecran of january the 31th of 2009: The video game is serious. (Broacasting our studies)

"This week, it's serious! The Serious Gaming is a new market of the video game industry dedicated to the learning, advertising, political... areas. A world market of 50 billions USD."   Journalist :Cédric Ingrand  Speakers : Jean-Claude La Rue (SELL), Sébastien Beck (DAESIGN) et Julian Alvarez (Orange Labs/ Ludoscience).       Podcast

Keywords : Serious Games, LCI, Plein Ecran, Market, Video games, Serious Gaming

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Eco-Reporter : à la découverte d'Andromède (Our projects)

A serious game designed to present an ecological town called Andromède, located in France. The player is asked to explore the twon and discuss with its inhabitants in order to get information. This information will then be used to write down an article about urban ecology.   Please note that, when the game was designed the ecological town was still under construction. So we had to use CG images created by the artchitects of the town to create the game.    Publication [...]

Keywords : serious game, ecology

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