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Your educational games for Research (Blog post)

 Ludoscience is a non profit organization aimed at studying game and its uses. In the context of research and conservation of heritage videogame work, we collect edutainment titles, edugames and other educational games from all eras and all supports.If you have such securities and that they clutter up you... Think about us! :)Please contact us to send your titles.Thanks also to bring the announcement around you... Ludoscience Team

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Introduction (Broacasting our studies)

Introduction by Julian Alvarez & Pascal StacciniSince 2002, the Serious game has been attracting growing interest thanks to the prospects it promises to offer in terms of prevention, training, education, learning, therapy, communication, training, data collection and so on. Valenciennes has been hosting the e-virtuoses since 2008. This is an event with international ambitions, designed to bring together players interested in Serious games, simulation and e-learning. The main sectors addresse [...]

Keywords : Serious game, Serious gaming, Conferences, SEGAMED, e-virtuoses, Health, Education, Communication

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Serious game : questions et réflexions autour de son appropriation dans un contexte d'enseignement (Broacasting our studies)

This communication addresses the issue of the appropriation of the Serious Game object by an ecosystem, particularly in the education area. The starting point begins with the observation that the video game is a basis for the development of many Serious Games. As such, this raises a set of resistors, including from parents of students and media. The video game is seen as negative, particularly by the violent images that some titles call. This can thereby impacting negatively inf [...]

Keywords : Appropriation, Video Game, Serious Game, Accompaniment, Complexity

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The history of Microsoft BOA (Blog post)

Almost unknown, BOA is a nice little game for MS-DOS created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. It's an arcade game similar to Snake, besides the fact that you are playing a rat trying to avoid being eaten by the snake!   The oddest thing about this game lies in its distribution model: it was solely available through the driver disk of a mouse created by Microsoft, the "Contour Mouse", also known as "Dove Bar." Due to the technological limitations of the era, [...]

Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love

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Merci Dorian - La classification (Broacasting our studies)

A video chronicle explaining the classification of videogame, which mentions our own GamePlay bricks system (among others).

Keywords : gameplay bricks, merci dorian, jeuxvideo.com, video game classification

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Call for papers: Serious gaming 2014 (Blog post)

Special session about serious gaming during the 6th Global Conference: Video Games Culture Project, from Thursday, 17th July to Saturday, 19th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom. Key words: serious games, serious gaming, education, projects with students, level design, case studies    SimCity in geography lessons, Civilisation V for non-violence education, Read Dead Redemption as a means of addressing the history of the Far West…  These [...]

Keywords : Call for papers, Serious Gaming, Serious Game, education, projects with students, level design, case studies, Modding

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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

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Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres (Broacasting our studies)

Genre is an important feature for organizing and accessing video games. However, current descriptors of video game genres are unstandardized, undefined, and embedded with multiple information dimensions. This paper describes the development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information. Using facet analysis, the authors analyzed existing genre labels from scholarly, commercial, and popular sources, and [...]

Keywords : Genre, Facet analysis, Video Games, Interactive media

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Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Blog post)

Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) is a book on the history of SEGA as a console manufacturer. After a brief introduction telling the birth of the company, this thick 480 pages book details the story of all its home consoles: SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis with its Sega CD and Sega 32X addons, Saturn and the Dreamcast.    While the beginnings of SEGA and its first two consoles are explained rather quickly over 30 pages, the main part of the bo [...]

Keywords : history of videogames, sega, genesis, sega cd, sega 32x, saturn, dreamcast

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New section: the big list of books about videogames (Blog post)

A new year means a new section to the Ludoscience website! To celebrate 2014, we offer you a new "bibliography" section, dedicated to the books about videogames. This big list already features more than 80 books dealing with various topics: history of videogames, game creators biographies, Game Design, Serious Games, videogames studies & analysis...    Each book is presented through a personal abstract and opinion, all purely subjective. But please note that we have read [...]

Keywords : site update, books, videogames, history, game design, serious games

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