Panorama des Serious Games métiersLe guide " Panorama des Serious Games métiers " est sorti !Le guide " Panorama des serious games métiers " est le premier guide numérique à recenser l’ensemble des serious games métiers actuels, dans des domaines professionnels variés tels que les métiers de la communication et des médias, de l’informatique, de l’économie, du
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Métiers, Guide, Jeunesse, Orientation
Digital technology users are growingly involved in what has been described as convergence culture or participatory cultures. In this context, a major role is played by user-generated content. This article focuses on the participatory practices related to Little Big Planet (LBP) 1, a PlayStation platform video game that encourages users to create and share their own gaming levels. Our theoretical framework refers both to convergence culture and to a specific perspective of game studies that focus
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Mots-clés : User-generated video gaming, Participatory cultures, PlayStation Network, Little Big Planet
Abstract:Despite our exposure to advergames, and studies about their effects, we know very little about the other side of the coin, i.e., advergames developers. In this paper, we report on a study of advergames development companies in the Netherlands. After deriving statements concerning the advergames market through three interviews, we cross-validate these statements with eight companies. Several statements are statistically significant, including the following: advergames are increasingly be
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Mots-clés : Customer loyalty, Netherlands, Advergames development companies, Technological platforms, Social media components, Advertising companies
Innovation and creativity seem to be mere buzzwords, but the quest for innovation and creativity by game companies is very real. This Ph.D. dissertation suggests adopting a new perspective on these concepts by abandoning a managerial attitude and favoring a design approach. The design process of video games is under-studied, and this research aims to create a model of video game design activity, using the already existing literature in the field of design, and the observation of actual game desi
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Mots-clés : Innovation, Industrie vidéoludique, Design, Designers
Le suivi du parcours des utilisateurs est un élément important de l’évaluation des Serious Games. Deux principales approches semblent co-exister dans ce domaine : l’intégration du Serious Game à un LMS via des normes comme SCORM ou IMS-LD, et la construction d’un outil d’analyse sur mesure pour chaque Serious Game. Dans cet article, nous proposons une troisième approche pour le suivi des utilisateurs dans un Serious
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Mots-clés : serious games, evaluation, suivi utilisateurs, google analytics, playtomic, ecologie
Abstract In 2013 the Skoll Global Threats Fund asked CNA Corporation to design and develop a game exploring information-sharing, conflict, and cooperation on the Indian subcontinent. The goal of the game was twofold: to understand information-sharing, its impediments and effects on water sharing and decision-making, as well as understand how gaming could be a tool for social change. The game was executed in two instances, one in the Washington, DC area with U.S. subject matter experts, and
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Mots-clés : Cross-cultural, Game
AbstractIn learning environments, appropriate objectives are needed to create the conditions for learning and consequently the performance to occur. It follows that appropriate metrics would also be necessary to properly measure what actually constitute performance in situ (within that environment), and to measure if learning has indeed occurred. Serious games environments can be problematic for performance measurement because publishers often posit the game would automatically facilit
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AbstractThis article analyzes Free Rice within the context of “the rise of the ludic sublime,” where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of “philitainment,” Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed “communicative capitalism” and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, th
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Mots-clés : Digital Games, Critical Theory, Governmentality, Philitainment, Development
LES « SERIOUS GAMES » OU « JEUX SÉRIEUX »Les jeux sérieux ou plus communément appelés Serious Games sont l’aboutissement de l’évolution du jeu vidéo sous sa forme pédagogique. Ces dernières années, le jeu sérieux fait l’objet de nombreuses attentions. Politiquement tout d’abord, avec l’appel à projet dans le cadre du Plan
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Mots-clés : Serious Game, Culture, Musée, Jeux sérieux, Médiation, Médiation culturelle
AbstractThis thesis explores the use of serious games from an instructor perspective. More specifically, it aims to study the roles of instructors and how they can be facilitated within an instructor-led game-based training environment. Research within the field of serious games has mostly focused on the learners' perspective, but little attention has been paid to what the instructors do and what challenges that entails. In this thesis, I argue that serious games, as artefacts used for learning
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Serious gaming, Game-based training