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Representation of female gamers in the French-language video-game press between 1980 and 2019 (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to present a lexicometric study identifying, between 1980 and 2019, the number of occurrences of the following 4 keywords: “joueuse”, “joueuses”, “joueur” and “joueurs” that can be identified in the French-language videogame press. In concrete terms, the corpus explored represents a set of 1,075 documents, the main titles of which are shown in Table 1. Statistical processing was carried out to check the validity of the data [...]Keywords : Female player, Male player, Female gamer, Male player, Gender stereotype, Video games press, Representation, Video game
"Distance" Hypothesis applied to robot-pedagogy for children in kindergarten (Broacasting our studies)
The Blue Bot project involved 230 five-year-old pupils of kindergarten in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region (France). The goal was to introduce them to coding, decoding and programming design. A ludopedagogy session was proposed with three main modalities: Body, Robot and Tablet. The statistical results confirmed the reliability of the scientific experiment and highlighted that the two modality combining Robot and Tablet recorded the highest performance scores in a pre- and posttest type evaluation [...]Keywords : Robot, Pedagogy, Tablet PC, Comparative Study, kindergarten, programming design, Coding, Decoding
Pokemon GO: study and reflection on the game (Blog post)
For the Ludoscience team, it's very important to play if you want to practice Ludology.Having read a few articles mentioning the idea that Pokémon GO could promote the health of its users through the walking activity it elicits, we wanted to form our own opinion by playing the title. We took the game with us on vacation, in the countryside, in the mountains and in the city.This month-long test also gave us the opportunity to make a few observations in the field, which we'd like to share w [...]Keywords : Serious Game, Video game, Smartphone, Serious Gaming, Pokemon Go, Gameplay, Research
Jogos sérios para reabilitação cognitiva (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract Rehabilitation can be defined as a process devised in response to unplanned life changes imposed by diseases or traumatic accidents. Cognitive rehabilitation is a form of therapy, focused on restoring functions that remain partially intact, applied to people with some form of cognitive impairment such as memory loss. The problem of traditional approaches is the lack of motivation and lack of interest of patients to perform repetitive tasks. This is where the concept of serious game [...]Keywords : Serious games, Rehabilitation, Cognitive rehabilitation, NUI, Games
Can an intervention based on a serious videogame prior to cognitive behavioral therapy be helpful in bulimia nervosa? A clinical case study (Broacasting our studies)
Background: Several studies have highlighted the implications of impulsivity and novelty seeking for both the maintenance and the process of recovery from bulimia nervosa (BN). Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for BN, but for some cases, this treatment alone might not be sufficient for reducing the high levels of impulsivity. The paper presents a case report of a patient with BN, examining the effectiveness of using a videogame (VG; Playmancer) as an additional [...]Keywords : eating disorders, bulimia nervosa, impulsivity, serious game, A-B-A-C-A design
Attack of the Screen Scrollers - a new game is released! (Blog post)
Again, I participated in the Ludum Dare 31 competition, where you have to create a game all by yourself in 48h on a given theme. This time, it was "Entire Game on One Screen." The game is called "Attack of the Screen Scrollers". It's a top-down shooter, where you'll have to protect the background image of your single game screen against the deadliest enemy of pixels: scrolling! "Screen Scrollers" will invade the screen border, and force the image to scroll towa [...]Keywords : ludum dare 31, entire game on one screen, experimental game
Attack of the Screen Scrollers (Videogame)
Beware of the Screen Scrollers! They will scroll your "one screen game" background image away, and destroy those precious pixels forever. Also, this image is your only ground, so you'd better protect it if you don't want to be "scrolled away" too!Use the arrow keys (or WASD) to move, and click on the "Screen Scrollers" to shoot them with your laser. You'll earn points for each kill, so aim for the high score! (my personal record is 1292 points) IMPORT [...]Keywords : ludum dare, entire game on one screen, experimental gameplay
Eric Chahi discusses his first Game Jam (Blog post)
Eric Chahi, a famous video games designer (Out of this World, anyone?), recently took part in the Retro Game Jam, a 32h video game creation competition held during november 2013 in Montpellier (France). In the video below, he discusses his feelings about this experience and presents the various prototypes of his game in order to explain his personal game creation process. A rare and very interesting testimony from a living videogame legend about the recent "Game Jam" phenomena (video i [...]Keywords : eric chahi, game jam
The One Fork Restaurant - a new game from the lab! (Blog post)
It also christmas here at Ludoscience, and to celebrate this holiday we are happy to release a new videogame! The game is called "The One Fork Restaurant". It's a tiny game created in 48h for the Ludum Dare 28 competition, on the theme "You Only Get One." The game takes place in a restaurant where many customers are coming to eat, but unfortunately the restaurant has only one fork! So the customers have to share this fork in order to eat their meals, but they aren't rea [...]Keywords : ludum dare 28, you only got one, experimental game
Moreia featured on IndieGames and new highscore! (Blog post)
Our game Moreia just got featured on IndieGames! For his article, the journalist got in touch with the author of game Moreia is paying tribute to: MS Boa, created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. This game was originally created to promote a new mouse model released by Microsoft. Therefore, although being a freeware, MS Boa was solely distributed through the driver disks of this mouse! Here is a picture of this little know game: By the way, as we speak about Moreia, the act [...]Keywords : moreia, indiegames, record, ms boa