Session de travail sur le serious gaming lors de la 6th Global Conference: Video Games Culture Project, du 17 au 19 Juillet 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, Royaume-Uni. SimCity en cours de géographie, Civilisation V pour une éducation à la non-violence, Read Dead Redemption pour aborder l’Histoire du far west, … Ces pratiques relèvent du « Serious gaming » : e
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Mots-clés : Serious game, Serious gaming, Appel à communication, Education, Projets étudiants, Etudes de cas, Level design, Modding
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore emergent learning in relation to playful interactions and instances of serious game conceptualization when combining the emerging and next generation technologies of ambient awareness with wireless grids. A review of the literature is presented for playful interactions and serious games in relation to ambient awareness and wireless grids. Using a case study approach and multiple methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection, the stu
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Mots-clés : Ambient awareness, Ambient learning, Autonomy, Edgeware, Emergent learning, Emotion/affect, Playful interactions, Serious games
Eric Chahi, célèbre créateur de jeux vidéo (Another World...), a récemment participé à la Retro Game Jam, une compétition de création de jeu vidéo en 32H organisée en novembre 2013 sur Montpellier. Dans la vidéo ci-dessous, il revient sur cette expérience en nous présentant les divers prototypes de son jeu et surtout le détail de son processus de création personnel. Un témoignag
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Mots-clés : game jam, eric chahi
Conférence présentant la typologie des serious games orientés santé (Health Game).
Mots-clés : Serious Game, Health Game, Typologie
This paper treats serious games. Recently, one of the game genres called serious game has become popular, which has other purposes besides enjoyments like education, training and so on. Especially, learning games of the serious games seem very attractive for the age of video games so that the authors developed a mobile game for learning bacteriology as one of the achievements of their research project. In this paper, the authors introduce the game and show evaluated results about its learning ef
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Mots-clés : Serious games, Mobile learning, Educational contents, Bacteriology
ABSTRACT Obesity and being overweight has become an increasing trend in America’s society over the last decade. This disease is not only affecting adults, but children as well. This statistic continues to rise due to controllable and uncontrollable factors, including poor nutrition and unfortunate medical conditions. Researchers have turned to persuasive technology in the form of health games to attack the “Battle of the Bulge.” These games fall into three different catego
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Mots-clés : Persuasive technology, Health games, Casual games, Exergames, Serious games
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
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Mots-clés : Genre, Jeu vidéo, Média Interactif, Facet analysis
Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA (Enhanced Edition) est un livre sur l'histoire de SEGA en tant que constructeur de consoles. Après une brève introduction sur la naissance de la société, cet épais ouvrage de 480 pages revient sur le destin de ses différents modèles de console de salon : le SG-1000, la Master System, la Mega Drive / Genesis et ses extensions Mega CD et 32X, la Saturn ainsi que la Dreamcast. Si les dé
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Mots-clés : histoire du jeu vidéo, sega, mega drive, mega cd, 32x, saturn, dreamcast
Thèse de Sébastien Allain (2013)
Mots-clés : Serious games
Une table ronde (cinq présentations individuelles + débats avec la salle) sur les thématiques et sujets abordés par les Serious Games.
Mots-clés : serious games, thématiques, social impact games