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A Pedagogical Experiment Involving Game Design Students in Producing Non-Violence Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

In this article, we describe a pedagogical experiment aimed at understanding the motivation drivers for the involvement of game design students in the development of serious game projects. This experiment was developed as a case study for the assessment of specific measures and hypotheses towards involving students in the design of a themed serious game (non-violence). Website of ECGBL 2016  ECGBL Program   Read Paper

Keywords : Serious game, Serious Gaming, Serious Diverting, Serious Modding, Learning, Game design, Non-Violence, Video game

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Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects (Broacasting our studies)

Abstract This article summarizes past definitions of entertainment, serious games and virtual heritage in order to discuss whether virtual heritage has particular problems not directly addressed by conventional serious games. For virtual heritage, typical game-style entertainment poses particular ethical problems, especially around the simulation of historic violence and the possible trivialization of culturally sensitive and significant material. While virtual heritage can be considered to [...]

Keywords : Entertainment, Virtual heritage, Authenticity, Violence, Interaction design

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The history of Carmageddon TV (Blog post)

A few months ago, we told you about the history of Carmageddon, a famous racing game praised for its gameplay and violence. After the first title released in 1997, two sequels were made: Carmageddon II in 1998, and Carmageddon TDR in 2000.  A screenshot of Carmageddon TV before its cancellation In 2003, SCi, publisher of the game series, started the development of a fourth episode. Titled Carmageddon TV, this new episode tries to explore a new direction. The universe is "rebooted" [...]

Keywords : history, video games, carmageddon tv, cancelled project, gameplay

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The history of Carmageddon (Blog post)

Carmageddon. A video game known by people even if they never played it, thanks to its scandalous reputation. However, this game is far from solely being the "nasty racing game where you have to crush pedestrians" that many media and politicians wanted to ban. Carmageddon is first and foremost an excellent game, featuring many technological and gameplay innovations that deeply influenced the racing game genre.   We interviewed Neil Barnden, co-founder of Stainless Software gam [...]

Keywords : history, carmageddon, stainless software, violence, scandal, censorship, fun

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L'Histoire des jeux vidéo polémiques - Volume 2: Jeux de torture et jeux d'horreur (Book reference)

Following the first book in the series, this book continues to explore the history of controversial video games. This second volume focuses on games about "torture" (Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, Chiller, Manhunt, Mad World...) and horror-themed games (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, The House of the Dead, Sanitarium, Rule of Rose...). Each game and the media controversy that accompanied it are presented using a variable number of pages. Here, this book tends to suffer from the same flaw as t [...]

Keywords : violence, torture, horror, controversy, addiction, media

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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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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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Les Jeux vidéo (Book reference)

This book is part of a series titled "the world explained to grown-ups." Hence, with its 160 pages, it aims to explain, in a simple and accessible manner, the world of video games to people who don't know anything about it. Despite its reduced size, this books successfully manages to achieve his goal, as it talks about many topics: history of video games, their art and cultural aspect, their industry, their controversies (addiction & violence), alongside with more recent topics lik [...]

Keywords : video game, introduction, history, art, industry, addiction, violence, gamification

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L'Histoire des jeux vidéo polémiques - Volume 1: Jeux de course/action et jeux érotiques (Book reference)

A series of books dedicated to videogames considered as controversial due to their content: violence, sex, promotion of an ideology. This first book in the series is dedicated to two kinds of videogames: car-action games (Death Race, Carmageddon, Grand Theft Auto) and erotic games (the Atari 2600 games by Mystique, Rapelay, Singles, 7 sins, Playboy the Mansion...). Each title is discussed through a variable number of pages, from one or two pages to more than a dozen depending on how much the aut [...]

Keywords : violence, sex, polemic, politics, grand theft auto, rapelay, familles de france, shane fenton

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Les jeux vidéo, ça rend pas idiot (Book reference)

This tiny book (100 pages in a pocket format) is full of wisdom and expert analysis about a delicate topic: are videogames dangerous?  In this book, Yann Leroux, a psychologist specialized on this subject, provides us with a excellent synthesis of all the scientific studies that happened about the effects of violent videogames and the addiction to videogames. This synthesis is written in a clear and simple language, and we thus strongly recommend this book to any parent, teacher, politician [...]

Keywords : addiction, violence, psychology, simple, parents, reassuring

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