LudoScience

Le ludo-éducatif : quelle déontologie dans la création des jeux ? (Broacasting our studies)

A round-table discussion on edutainment, focusing on ethical and deontological issues when creating games:What are the ethics involved in creating games?What are the risks? What are the safeguards?How do games and education interact?

Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Ethics, Deontology, Design, Edutainment, Game design, Serious game design

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Fundamentals of Game Design (Book reference)

A 700 pages introductory bible to the many concepts of Game Design. This book is an updated and revised edition of "Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design", and it's still divided in two parts. The first one is explaining the fundamental concepts of video game design: game design process, game mechanics, balancing, storytelling, characters, level design, etc. The second part of the book presents the main video game genres (action, adventure, simulation, sports, etc.) and their [...]

Keywords : game design, introduction, genre, beginner

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V.E.Ga.S.: A tool to study morphology of the video games (Broacasting our studies)

The aim of this article is to present V.E.Ga.S tool, which intends to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. The approach has been inspired by the methodology of Vladimir Propp, who has classified Russian Tales at the time, as well as on the works and the "iterative" approach of the game designers Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. The approach consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composit [...]

Keywords : Classification, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy, Bricks, Experimental Methods

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Communiquer par le jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

That national education, the United Nations and Greenpeace, for example, use video games to convey a message and communicate, reveals that this form of digital leisure constitutes a credible alternative to traditional forms of communication.    Furthermore, if the message includes an educational dimension, in the most global sense of the term, we believe that we are facing a new product in the world of multimedia. In this communication, we propose to take a critical lo [...]

Keywords : Serious Game, Advertainment, Edugame, Education, Innovation, Marketing, Réception

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Etude morphologique des jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)

L’objet de cet article est de présenter un outil destiné à classer les jeux vidéo, étudier leur nature et corroborer des hypothèses par une approche pragmatique. L’approche suivie est de s’inspirer de la méthodologie de Vladimir Propp qui a servi à classer les contes russes en son temps, tout en nous appuyant sur les travaux et l’approche « itérative » des game designers Katie Salen et Er [...]

Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Video games

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Video game classification (Videogame)

More than 39000 games classified according many criterias: authors, years, gameplay, machines... 

Keywords : Video Game

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On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise And Fall of Commodore (Book reference)

This book details the history of Commode, a company who built legendary computers such as the Commodore PET, theVIC-20, the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. Over more than 550 pages, this book presents the full history of the company, with incredible details and a lot of unique information obtained through interviews with former employees. The story begins in 1976 with Chuck Peddle, an engineer working for MOS Technology, who designed a microprocessor called 6502. It was the first one to be cheap eno [...]

Keywords : commodore, commodore 64, amiga, jack tramiel, computer

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New Advertising Tools for School Guidance (Broacasting our studies)

The objective of this paper is to restore the process of development and installation of a project called "Technocity" which aims to develop technology courses of French State Education among the young people from 15 to 18 years old, with a very special care for the girls. We develop a gameplay to build a new school guidance tools. We choose to create a dynamic approach with video game and shortly report on different technical job. After, we explore the impact and the reception of this [...]

Keywords : School guidance, Advertaising tools, Advertainment, Education, Edumarket game, Innovation, Marketing, Reception

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Edumarket game (Broacasting our studies)

During this conference, the aim was to present the Edumarket game concept. This corresponds to a Serious Game combining an educational dimension and a brand. This raises a number of ethical questions: is it conceivable to teach children to read, with the parallel introduction of a brand in a school setting, for example? At the same time, using a video game to teach is in a way promoting a license that students are likely to consume after class... 

Keywords : serious game, Edumarket game, Ethic, Branding, Advertising, Licence

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EduMarket Game: Technocity (Broacasting our studies)

The objective of this paper is to restore the process of development and installation of a project called "Technocity" which aims to develop technology courses of French State Education among the young people from 15 to 18 years old. We develop a gameplay to build a new school guidance tools. We choose to create a dynamic approach with video game and shortly report on different technical job. After, we explore the impact and the reception of this tool in different classrooms by childre [...]

Keywords : Advertaising tools, Advertainment, Education, Innovation, Marketing, Reception, School guidance, Serious Game

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