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Rétro SG : Consoles et Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
Article dedicated to Retro Serious Games. Pix'N Love #7 (pages 90 to 97).Keywords : Serious Games, Retro SG, Retro Serious Games
Serious Games Opinions (Our projects)
A Web 2.0 site dedicated to the evaluation of Serious Games. Visitor can play and rate a selection of Serious Games, and comment these games. http://www.seriousgamesopinions.org/ Publications related to this projet Julian Alvarez, Valérie Maffiolo "Etude de l'impact de communications électroniques basées sur le Serious game - 3ème approche" SEE / Revue REE, ISSN 1265-6534, n°4, 2011, p. 85, 2011. Site de la revueKeywords : serious game, rating
Taxonomy of Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare (Broacasting our studies)
Since the first days of the Serious Gaming industry, many Serious Games dedicated to Healthcare were released. However, all these games don’t serve the same purpose, nor they target the same audience. This article tries to propose an approach suited to handle the variety of such Serious Games. Starting from general definitions of Serious Games, we will build a taxonomy of Healthcare-related to Serious Games accompanied with several examples.Keywords : Serious Game, Retro Serious Game, Taxonomy, Healthcare, Prevention
Whosegame - Serious Game creation contest (Our projects)
We took part in the organization of Serious Game creation contest ran by Whosegame, a website owned by Orange. Constestant had to design a videogame dealing whith one of the following topics:Les participants devaient imaginer et réaliser un jeu vidéo traitant d'une des thématiques suivantes : Improving one's knowledge of telecommunications. Being an eco-citizen with the help of telecommunication technologies. - Acting against isolation and exclusion thanks to [...]Keywords : serious game, contest
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
Le Jardinier Ecolo (Our projects)
A Serious Game released by the builders of an ecological town, called Andromède, in order to raise people awareness about the way to create and manage ecological public gardens. Will you manage to create a nice park while avoiding to waste water? Publications related to this project Damien Djaouti "Serious Game Design - Considérations théoriques et techniques sur la création de jeux vidéo à vocation utilitaire" Th&e [...]Keywords : serious game, ecology
Evaluating the coherence of a Serious Game (Broacasting our studies)
This paper proposes a methodology for assessing the coherence of a serious game.Given the extreme diversity of serious games, this methodology is based on the postulate of defining such objects as computer applications combining serious content with a videogame structure. The approach presented in this article is based on the formal deconstruction of “gameplay”, by reducing game rules to elementary functions. The ludic structure, thus formalized, can then be confronted with the utili [...]Keywords : serious game, coherence, analysis, gameplay bricks, Evaluation
Place your bets! Thoughts on the scope of video game creation tools (Broacasting our studies)
This article offers an overview of the various approaches used by the video game industry throughout its history to encourage and facilitate the creation of video games by players.Referring to a structural model of the video game as an artifact, we will study four approaches aimed at facilitating and encouraging enthusiasts to create or modify their own games: configuration menus, level editors, mods and game factories.The aim of this article is to highlight the complementarity of these differen [...]Keywords : Video game, Creation, Tools, Level design, Game design
Serious Games ou comment sont détournés les jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
When it comes to the issues surrounding digital objects in the world of young people, our usual bias, our reflex, is first and foremost to take an approach that is often exclusive to the educator, and not without reason. The interest of this article, based on the example of serious games, is to situate these issues from the viewpoints of both the marketing designer of “products to be consumed” and the educator designing “situations to be educated”. In the process, each bo [...]Keywords : serious game, e-learning, edugaming, advergaming, edumarket game, serious gaming, advergame, edugame
Serious Games : Advergaming, edugaming, training... (Broacasting our studies)
By analysing in detail the characteristics, uses and different genres of serious game, this study outlines the challenges involved with the design, development and distribution of various types of title. Similarly, the report examines the outlook for the industry and its probable growth drivers. The serious gaming market is of considerable importance. As the link between traditional video games and practical software, serious games offer a genuine opportunity to develop a sector that is all too [...]Keywords : serious game, advergame, edugame, news game, edumarket game, serious gaming, edugaming, advergaming