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Serious Game: just a question of posture? (Broacasting our studies)
This article explains the difference between a large variety of Serious Games and tries to propose a classification to understand this type of video games. We explore the connection between the goal of the game designer, the objective of the game and the posture of the player. Finally, we explore how we can create some serious game to make corporate communication or educative program.Keywords : serious game
Towards a classification of Video Games (Broacasting our studies)
This paper is part of an experimental approach aimed to raise a video games classification. Being inspired by the methodology that Propp used for the classification of Russian fairy tales, we have cleared out recurrent diagrams within rules of video games, named "Game Bricks". The combinations of these different bricks will allow us to represent a classification, in accordance to their rules, of all the video games. In this article, we will study the real link between these bricks and [...]Keywords : Classification, Rules, Video Games, Gameplay
Digital Game-Based Learning (Book reference)
This book is a reprint of one of the most iconic texts on the use of video games for education. First published in 2000, it aims to demonstrate stakeholders, teachers and other education professionals how video games can enhance learning. The book thus presents a lot of interesting examples coming from school education, adult education and defense. While the book tone is more evangelist than scientific, especially when read today, it remains a very rich and thought-provoking introduction to the [...]Keywords : game based learning, digital games, learning, examples
Morphological study of the video games (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this article is first to present V.E.Ga.S., a tool which intend to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. It consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composition of elementary “game bricks”. Basing our study on this bricks and crossing them, we try to classify and study video games. In a second time, this paper presents the classification deduced from the results of V.E.Ga.S.Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Experimental Methods, Gameplay, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy
A classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this article is to present a classification of video games deduced by a pragmatic approach. The methodology consisted in indexing a significant number of video games by taking account their elementary “game bricks”. At last all these combinations have been studied in a database called V.E.Ga.S. Access to proceedingsKeywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Game, Play, Morphology
Apport des technologies multimédias dans le système d'apprentissage en ligne Sphinx (Broacasting our studies)
This paper presents the project of extension of the on-line learning system Sphinx to multimedia capabilities. Sphinx is actually used by the students of the University Laval at Quebec in an artificial intelligence course. This system enables the student to revise during their course and before the exams. The originality of the method rises in collaborative way of working, each student adding comments on the others. This interactivity has reach its boundaries and a new way is arising in order to [...]Keywords : pédagogie, Video Game, Avatar, Virtual Companion, Serious Game
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
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
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
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