1 Introduction As one of the fastest growing segments of the global entertainment market (Szalai, 2007), video games have come to represent a wide spectrum of values in terms of expectations and design decisions of the groups involved in their development and publication. Despite a rapidly expanding market, changing demographics and growing global economic importance, regional differences in game designs have yet to be fully explored. The underlying premise of this research is that game com
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Mots-clés : Video games, Genre, Game components
Cette communication propose une méthodologie destinée à évaluer la cohérence d'un serious game. Face à l'extrême diversité des serious games, cette méthodologie s'inscrit dans le postulat définissant de tels objets comme des applications informatiques associant un contenu sérieux à une structure vidéoludique. L'approche présentée dans cet article s'appuie sur la déconstruction formelle
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Mots-clés : serious game, analyse, cohérence, briques gameplay
Dérivé de Game Classification, ce site Internet vise à recenser et classifier le plus grand nombre possible de Serious Games. Il s'appuie donc sur un modèle classificatoire adapté au Serious Games, le modèle G/P/S (Gameplay / Permet de / Secteur). http://serious.gameclassification.com/ Publications relatives à ce projet Damien Djaouti, Julian Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Jessel, Olivier Rampnoux "Origins of Serious Games&quo
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Mots-clés : serious game, classification
The aim of this article is to present V.E.Ga.S tool, which intends to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. The approach has been inspired by the methodology of Vladimir Propp, who has classified Russian Tales at the time, as well as on the works and the "iterative" approach of the game designers Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. The approach consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composit
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Mots-clés : Classification, Methodes, Gameplay, Game design, Jeux vidéo, Morphologie, Taxonomie, Briques
The objective of this paper is to restore the process of development and installation of a project called "Technocity" which aims to develop technology courses of French State Education among the young people from 15 to 18 years old, with a very special care for the girls. We develop a gameplay to build a new school guidance tools. We choose to create a dynamic approach with video game and shortly report on different technical job. After, we explore the impact and the reception of this
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Mots-clés : School guidance, Advertaising tools, Advertainment, Education, Edumarket game, Innovation, Marketing, Reception
Cet article relate la démarche novatrice de l'Éducation Nationale qui tente via des jeux vidéo de transmettre un message à la génération des 15–18 ans pour valoriser ses filières Industrielles. Sous l'axe scientifique de la communication et de la sociologie, dans un premier temps, nous explorerons la stratégie mise en place pour élaborer les jeux dont la vocation sera de véhiculer le message souhait&e
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Mots-clés : pédagogie, Jeu vidéo, Education, Serious Game