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L'industrie du jeu vidéo : un petit panorama (Lesson)
An overall presentation of the various jobs related to videogames, splitted in two parts: - The professionnals of game design:The AAA videogame industryThe small and average sized studios (AA budget games) The "indies" - Others videogames related jobs: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 : videogames, jobs, industry, work, indies
Jeu vidéo : une rapide histoire générale (Lesson)
A "quick" presentation of the overall history of videogames, from 1952 to 2013. -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : videogames, history, consoles generations, firsts videogames
Structure d'un jeu vidéo (version 2) (Lesson)
A presentation about the inner structure of videogames: the different kind of rules, the game elements, etc. Tries to answer the following question: "What is gameplay?" -= Presentation slides (in french) =- (Flash file - click inside the left or right side of the window to browse through the slides)Keywords : videogame, structure, gameplay
French Industry Year Book 2013 (Book reference)
This directory lists over 270 french companies working on video games. Each company is introduced by a short text and several images of their games, alongside with full contact details. A vital resource for any student looking for an internship, or for professionals looking for studios to hire!Besides the physical copy of the book, an electronic version is freely available here.Keywords : france, videogames, directory, company, industry
New website section: games created by Ludoscience! (Blog post)
As the summer goes, a new section appears on this website: games made at the Ludoscience laboratory! This new section will let you play the various videogames created by the members of the laboratory during their research projects. Hence, this new section is different from our reseach projects section (that gathers research projects that are not games, or games that are not available to the general public) and from our students projects section (that solely gathers games created by the st [...]Keywords : website updates, videogames
Tu le crois ça ? (Book reference)
The biography of Alain Huyghues -Lacour, a famous french journalist specialized in videogames, better known as "AHL." This book tells us the quite unusual life of a young musician who ended up being a videogame journalist, with unique in-between jobs such as being the personal secretary of the singer Demis Roussos. This book is divided in very short chapters (4-8 pages) detailling both the musical career of Alain, and the career of AHL in the world of french videogaming press. And it's [...]Keywords : AHL, biography, press, france, joystick, joypad, console+, tilt
Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs de Jeux Vidéo 8/16-bits (Book reference)
This book attempts to give a quite unique approach on the history of videogames: instead of interviewing game designers about how they created famous games, the author have collected the memories of numerous anonymous videogames players in France. The book is focused on the 8 / 16 bits era (i.e. from the middle of the 80's to the beginning of the 90's). The author, Florent Gorges, have written a very touching book here. While you'll read it quickly, it'll touch you with a deep feeling of nostalg [...]Keywords : players, memories, 8 bits, 16 bits, consoles, computers
La création de Newsgames pour développer l'esprit critique d'élèves-ingénieurs : une expérimentation empirique (Broacasting our studies)
In a video game design teaching course, we chose to replace the creation of entertainment videogames by the creation of Newsgames (i.e. Serious Games about news topics). Thanks to this change, our course seems to be able to enhance the critical thinking skills of students while still teaching them how to design videogames. For example, several students designed different videogames about the same news topic. This project required them to exchange their own opinions and discuss about the news top [...]Keywords : newsgame, design, project based learning, Serious game
Influence du libre dans l'histoire du jeu vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
A book chapter (in french) about the relations between the "Free Software" philosophy and the history of videogames. The book is an "open-book" (as in "open source"), freely available on its official website.Keywords : free software, open source, video games, history
Jeuxvideo.com : Une odyssée interactive (Book reference)
The biography of Sébastien Pissavy, founder of the famous french gaming news website "jeuxvideo.com." The author tells us about the birth of this website and the company behind it, "l'Odyssée Interactive." It all began with the "ETJAV", the french videogames cheat codes encyclopedia, which was distributed to friends and through some magazines. Then came the ETAJV minitel service, alongside with the founding of a company that will later create a website [...]Keywords : jeuxvideo.com, sébastien pissavy, biography, etajv, france, odyssee interactive