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Emergence of the "gameplay" term in the English-speaking and French-speaking video game culture sphere in the 20th century (Broacasting our studies)

The present study aims to verify the emergence of the terms « game play » (in one word) and « gameplay » (in two words) within the framework of the Anglophone and Francophone video game cultural sphere. Starting from the writings of Wikipedia who sees the origin of these words associated with the mention « How the game plays ? » which would have appeared on the first coin-op arcade games, we are conducting an investigation of [...]

Keywords : gameplay, game play, video game, lexicometry, emergence, coin-op arcade Games, History of video game

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Plateforme Fun MOOC: Enseigner avec les Serious Games (Broacasting our studies)

Panneau de gestion des cookiesPasser au contenu principalRecherchVous êtes ici:AccueilCoursEnseigner avec les Serious GamesEnseigner avec les Serious GamesRéf. 08007CatégorieEducation et formationCatégorieNumérique et technologieDurée : 7 semainesEffort : 14 heuresRythme: ~2 heures/semaineAucune session ouverteCe que vous allez apprendreÀ la fin de ce cours, vous saurez :Découvrir la notion de « Serious Game » et les diffé [...]

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Qu'est-ce qu'un FPS (Broacasting our studies)

«Ça fait plus de 20 ans que le First person shooter (FPS) existe et on arrive encore à faire évoluer le genre», se réjouit Damien Djaouti, enseignant chercheur en informatique spécialisé sur les jeux vidéos. Les premiers titres à succès du genre,Wolfenstein 3D en 1992 ou Doom en 1993, sont devenus des références toujours émulées aujourd’hui. En témoignent l [...]

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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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Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds: Commercial Video Games As Educational Tools (Book reference)

This book highlights the potential of video games for education purposes. Over 250 pages, 10 chapters are dealing with a different topic each. For example, one chapter relies on the Final Fantasy series to demonstrate the artistic potential of video games, while another chapter presents a classroom experiment conducted over the Harry Potter games and movies to make the students work on storytelling. While the book subject is very interesting, the quality of its chapters varies heavily. The best [...]

Keywords : education, video game, classroom, theoretical

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Tribute to those who pay tribute (Blog post)

Who knows Alive published by Lankhor in 1991? Probably very few people.       This adventure game for the Amstrad CPC was developed by Arnaud Laplace and myself when we were still in high school. Inspired by films such as “New York 1997” and “Planet of the Apes",we imagined the game's story and then improvised as game designers, writers, coders, computer graphics artists and musicians to bring it to life. The [...]

Keywords : Retrogaming, Video game, Adventure, Amstrad CPC, Video game history

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The Wikileaks Game (Student project)

A Serious Game about the famous "Wikileaks" website. You are playing as Julian Assange, and must inflitrate US agencies in order to steal some secret information. If you manage to escape alive, will you reveal all the secrets that you discovered? 

Keywords : serious game, newsgames, wikileaks, politics, press

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Mahjian (Our projects)

Mahjian is an "Alternate Reality Game" who took place during 6 month (from january to june 2011) in the city of Blagnac, France. Proposing puzzles to solve on Internet mixed with real-life treasure hunts throughout the city, alongside with a giant game-show as a closing event, this game was designed to promote the cultural activities of Blagnac city.  While we were working for the game libraray of the Odyssud cultural center, we got involved in the geensis of this game, an [...]

Keywords : serious game, alternate reality game

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Orange Grid (Student project)

A "Picross" based puzzle game featuring telecommunication related pictures. 

Keywords : serious game, telecommunication, puzzle

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Death Guitar (Student project)

A game concept mixing RPG and music games, through the use of Guitar Hero controller. (gameplay concept) 

Keywords : free topic, music

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