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Origins of Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)
This chapters tackles the historical origins of Serious Games: "The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the historical origins of Serious Games to try to understand where the current wave of "Serious Games" comes from. We first review the origins of the "Serious Games" oxymoron. We will then analyse digital games designed for serious purposes before the 2000's. Such games can be traced back to the beginning of the history of video games. We will use all these elem [...]Keywords : serious games, history
Les 1001 jeux vidéos auxquels il faut avoir joué dans sa vie (Book reference)
This book presents a personal selection by the author of 1001 noteworthy videogames, coming from every period of the videogames history. Each games is introduced by a small text alongside one or several screenshots.This book is a french translation of an English-written book first published in 2010 and titled "1001 video games you must play before you die." This original English version was updated and republished in 2013 under the same title.Keywords : encyclopedia, history
8 Bits of Wisdom: Video Game Lessons for Real Life's Endbosses (Book reference)
An comical essay where the author analyses the "life lessons" embedded in some of the classical videogames from 8 and 16 bits home consoles (namely NES, Super NES, Genesis). For example, the two-players mode in Contra is about having a best friend, while Paperboy will teach you the basics of customer service. The quality of the different book chapters is very variable, but some chapters are excellent and they will undoubtedly makes you smile or laugh (in particular the hilarious chapte [...]Keywords : humor, nes, super nes, genesis, life lessons
Playing to Learn: Are you Serious? A Theoretical Discussion of the Relationship Between (Video) Games and Learning (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract This article offers a theoretical discussion of the relationship between video games and education. Based on both a literature review of this field and a study of players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, this article presents the difficulties in the field of education of thinking of games as a space of learning and proposes various theoretical elements to address this issue. References (1): Michaud, L., & Alvarez, J. (2008). Serious games : Adverga [...]Keywords : Games, Education, Online games, Video games
A serious game based method for business process management (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:Nowadays, organizations have to be flexible enough to allow adjustments to new circumstances and to be able to align their processes in a short time according to the users requirements, respecting environmental constraints and technological evolution. The challenges are then to improve process efficiency and quality, to introduce a continuous process evolution and to improve the stakeholder's satisfaction. This article proposes a Serious Game-based Method for Business Process Management [...]Keywords : Serious game, Business Process, Modeling, Management, Participative process, Process improvement, BPM
Philosophie des jeux vidéo (Book reference)
An excellent book featuring a deep analysis of the experiences offered to players by videogames. Being at the same time a gamer and a scholar, the author provides us with his very thoughtful and stimulating ideas on this topic. The first three chapters are tackling the issue of defining games, video games, and the relation between games and movies / storytelling. As they are full of concepts and references, these chapters are a bit harder to read than the others. The three following chapters are [...]Keywords : history, philosophy, sociology, experience, critical, gamification
Le Jeu vidéo : ce que nous y recherchons (Book reference)
This tiny 100 pages book attempts to tackle a broad question: "Why do people like video games?" The author starts with a quick definition of video games and game genres. He then details the different kind of pleasures video games have to offer: freedom, multiplayer cooperation, immersion, artistic feeling, exploration, and relationship with a virtual pet. While the book is pleasant to read and filled with many relevant examples, the small number of pages prevent the author to fully dev [...]Keywords : video game, pleasure, freedom, social interaction, immersion
Blagnac. L'atelier d'Odyssud réalise un jeu en 48h (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : global game jam, create, video game
Typologie des Serious games (Broacasting our studies)
Chapiter dedicated to Serious games typology in " LES JEUX VIDÉO comme objet de recherche" from Samuel Rufat and Hovig Ter Minassian. Les Jeux Vidéo comme objet de recherche L>P, Questions Théoriques format : 140 x 200, 200 pages 12,50 euros ISBN-10: 2917131063 ISBN-13: 978-2917131060Keywords : Video games, Serious games, Scientific Research
Global Game Jam 2011 - Organizer of the Toulouse location (Broacasting our studies)
Keywords : competition, creation, video game