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Le processus de Game Design : la création professionelle de jeux vidéo (Lesson)
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames:Journalist / YoutuberSalesmanProfessionnal player (pro-gamer) Events organizer -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : game design, indudtry, video games
Serious Games for Learning : a model and a reference architecture for efficient game development (Broacasting our studies)
Summary Digital Serious Games (SGs) are gaining increasing importance as educational and training tools. However, there is still a long way to make them widely deployed. On the one hand, balancing fun and educational elements in a SG is not trivial and requires understanding how these games can be designed to support effective and efficient learning. On the other hand, actual development can be costly and time-consuming, involving large teams of people from different backgrounds, who often [...]Keywords : Serious game, Learning
Soutien à l'auto-régulation des apprenants: conception d'environnements informatiques réflexifs et engageants (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract : Nos travaux de recherche se situent principalement dans le domaine des Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain (EIAH). Les apprenants ont aujourd’hui accès à des plateformes éducatives sociales de plus en plus perfectionnées et complexes, et à un ensemble de ressources variées. Dans ce contexte, nos travaux visent à proposer des modèles et environnements informatiques pour favorise [...]Keywords : EIAH, Engagement utilisateur, Environnements réflexifs, Ludification adaptative, Analyse de traces
Using UML to Model Educational Games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:There has been a constant increase in the number of serious games. In recent years, they have become extremely important within the scientific community and their repercussions on industry have been reflected in exponential growth in terms of their economic impact. The term serious game covers an extremely wide range of video games all with very different purposes and with many different areas of application. One of the most prolific areas is the field of education and many research pap [...]Keywords : Games, Unified modeling language, Proposals, Education, Avatars, Software, Adaptation models
Using UML to Model Educational Games (Broacasting our studies)
Abstract:There has been a constant increase in the number of serious games. In recent years, they have become extremely important within the scientific community and their repercussions on industry have been reflected in exponential growth in terms of their economic impact. The term serious game covers an extremely wide range of video games all with very different purposes and with many different areas of application. One of the most prolific areas is the field of education and many research pap [...]Keywords : Games, Unified modeling language, Proposals, Education, Avatars, Software, Adaptation models
IMPROVING SERIOUS GAME DESIGN THROUGH A DESCRIPTIVE CLASSIFICATION: A COMPARATION OF METHODOLOGIES (Broacasting our studies)
ABSTRACT Serious game provides an instructional tool to make the learning process more enjoyable, easier to memorize and effective. It combines pedagogy goals and game play to increase the participant interest and engagement compared to traditional methods. In this paper, we compare several methodologies of game design relative to our classification proposal; it can assist the analysis and evaluation of serious game design, we illustrate how this classification helps several actors of desi [...]Keywords : Comparative Study, Serious Game, Learning, Game Design
Vintage Game Shop released (Blog post)
The ludoscience team is pleased to announce the release of a new game created in our laboratory: Vintage Game Shop. It's a “documentary game” about the history of video games. The game is freeware, available for Web browser and Mobile (Android and iOS). Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit wil [...]Keywords : vintage game shop, history, video game, serious game
Vintage Game Shop (Videogame)
Vintage Game Shop is a “documentary game” about the history of video games.Everyday, people will come to your shop to sell you vintage games and consoles. Your goal is buying them as cheaply as possible, so you can earn some money when you’ll resell them to another client! Your profit will enable you to buy rarer and more expensive items, so you can complete your personal game collection.Will you earn enough money to buy all of the most iconic games in history? The gam [...]Keywords : history, video game, retro gaming, serious game, collection
Serious game as a therapeutic tool in psychiatry: A systematic review (Broacasting our studies)
AbstractContextThe growing field of new technologies offers new ways to tackle psychiatric disorders (e.g. virtual reality therapy, neurofeedback, etc.). Serious games (SG) are computer applications combining serious aspects with the fun side of video games. This kind of new media could find applications to treat psychiatric disorders.ObjectiveThis paper summarizes available data in the literature about therapeutic interventions using SG in psychiatry.MethodA Medline search was conducted in May [...]Keywords : Psychiatry, Video game, Psychotherapy, Serious game, Psychiatric disorder
Jeu vidéo : une rapide histoire générale (Version 2) (Lesson)
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013.This course revolves around a Serious Game about the history of video games, that you can play below. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides) -= Vintage Game Shop : Student Edition =- (Flash file) Click here to download the "offline" version of the game (Windows EXE, 9mo) [...]Keywords : history, video games, vintage game shop, serious game